(1111 quotes found)
“We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?”
Nick Hornby
“Firemen are going to get killed. When they join the department they face that fact. When a man becomes a fireman his greatest act of bravery has been accomplished. What he does after that is all in the line of work. They were not thinking of getting killed when they went where death lurked. They went there to put the fire out, and got killed. Firefighters do not regard themselves as heroes because they do what the business requires.”
Chief Edward F. Croker
“Become who you are.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”
John Keats
“While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living”
Cyril Connolly
“Churchill wrote his own speeches. When a leader does that, he becomes emotionally invested with his utterances. If Churchill had had a speech writer in 1940, Britain would be speaking German today.”
James C. Humes
“Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough.”
Gustave Flaubert
““When a warrior learns to stop the internal dialogue, everything becomes possible; the most far-fetched schemes become attainable.””
Carlos Castaneda
“In peace there's nothing so becomes a manAs modest stillness and humility;But when the blast of war blows in our ears,Then imitate the action of the tiger:Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood,Then lend the eye a terrible aspect;Now set the teeth, and stretch the nostril wide,Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spiritTo his full height!”
William Shakespeare
“You see, it's never the environment; it's never the events of our lives, but the meaning we attach to the events / how we interpret them / that shapes who we are today and who we'll become tomorrow.”
Anthony Robbins
