#accomplishments

...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished at any given moment? ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#fiery-cross #accomplishments

The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#church #escape #accomplishments

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. ↗

— Mark Twain

#boy #commonest #could #even #george

Well, to me, my past accomplishments weren't crazy. They required a lot of skill and careful planning. ↗

— Felix Baumgartner

#careful #crazy #lot #me #past

To supervise people, you must either surpass them in their accomplishments or despise them. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#despise #either #must #people #supervise

A man's accomplishments in life are the cumulative effect of his attention to detail. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#attention #cumulative #detail #effect #his

Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#give #knowledge #luster #many #may

I think a lot of Jim Thorpe, the Olympian, and his accomplishments. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#his #i #i think #jim #lot

That I've lasted is one of my greatest accomplishments. Maybe my greatest. ↗

— Lesley Visser

#greatest #i #lasted #maybe

My father was criticized as a dictator, but that should not overshadow his accomplishments in restructuring the country. He brought Korea out of 5,000 years of poverty. What he left unaccomplished was democratization of the system. ↗

— Park Geun-hye

#brought #country #criticized #democratization #dictator