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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it. (Quote by - Havelock Ellis)

Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. (Quote by - William Jennings Bryan)

It isn't the incompetent who destroys an organization. The incompetent never gets in a position to destroy it. It is those who have achieved something and want to rest upon their achievements who are forever clogging things up. (Quote by - F. M. Young)

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do. (Quote by - Gian Carlo Menotti)

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you somebody who has never achieved much. (Quote by - Joan Collins)

All I ever intended was to make a living at what I do. Everything I've achieved since then is above and beyond. (Quote by - Shania Twain)

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. (Quote by - Reinhold Niebuhr)

It is fantastic to have achieved the success and I'm thankful to the fans for it. (Quote by - Corinne Bailey Rae)

Roman civilization had achieved, within the bounds of its technology, relatively as great a mastery of time and space as we have achieved today. (Quote by - Arthur Erickson)

Never would it occur to a child that a sheep, a pig, a cow or a chicken was good to eat, while, like Milton's Adam, he would eagerly make a meal off fruits, nuts, thyme, mint, peas and broad beans which penetrate further and stimulate not only the appetite but other vague and deep nostalgias. We are closer to the Vegetable Kingdom than we know; is it not for man alone that mint, thyme, sage, and rosemary exhale crush me and eat me! -- for us that opium poppy, coffee-berry, tea-plant and vine perfect themselves? Their aim is to be absorbed by us, even if it can only be achieved by attaching themselves to roast mutton. (Quote by - Cyril Connolly)

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love. (Quote by - George Shaw)

The search for static security - in the law and elsewhere - is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts. (Quote by - William Osler)

I'm very proud of what we achieved together - getting Andy Murray into the top 50 and winning his first ATP Tour title at the age of 18. (Quote by - Mark Petchey)

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence. (Quote by - Henrik Tikkanen)

He has achieved success who has lived well, laughed often, and loved much. (Quote by - Bessie Stanley)

After 15 years of work I have achieved, as a common German soldier and merely with my fanatical willpower, the unity of the German nation, and have freed it from the death sentence of Versailles. (Quote by - Adolf Hitler)

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. (Quote by - Omar N. Bradley)

A fully functional multiracial society cannot be achieved without a sense of history and open, honest dialogue. (Quote by - Cornel West)

Human successes, like human failures, are composed of one action at a time and achieved by one person at a time. (Quote by - Patty H. Sampson)

Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another. (Quote by - Ayn Rand)

Nothing of worthy or weight can be achieved with half a mind, with a faint heart, and with a lame endeavor. (Quote by - Isaac Barrow)

Originality and the feeling of one's own dignity are achieved only through work and struggle. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoyevsky)

To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be "meeting. (Quote by - Dave Barry)

Hell is out of fashion -- institutional hells at any rate. The populated infernos of Twentieth Century are more private affairs, the gaps between the bars are the sutures of one's own skull. A valid hell is one from which there is a possibility of redemption, even if this is never achieved, the dungeons of an architecture of grace whose spires point to some kind of heaven. The institutional hells of the present century are reached with one-way tickets, marked Nagasaki and Buchenwald, worlds of terminal horror even more final than the grave. (Quote by - J. G. Ballard)

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