#achievements

Other people his age had houses and washing machines, cars and television sets, furniture and gardens and mountain bikes and lawnmowers: he had four boxes of crap, and a set of matchless memories. ↗

— Robert Galbraith

#peers #age

The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write. ↗

— Hannah Cowley

#charms #could #immortal #inspired #more

He was a fantastic player, but the thing that impressed me most about Paul was his manner off the pitch. He was always very humble about his achievements and had a lot of time for the paying public and people in general. ↗

— Kenny Cunningham

#achievements #always #fantastic #general #had

New standards for safety are now in place and Canada has helped provide tools and techniques that were needed. Technologies like these are innovative and represent great achievements for us. ↗

— Marc Garneau

#canada #great #great achievements #helped #innovative

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, "I was wrong". ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#acts #excluded #feats #hardest #hate

Yet, our achievements also mask many continuing failings and seem to expose more future dangers. ↗

— Hun Sen

#also #continuing #dangers #expose #failings

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so. ↗

— Eyvind Johnson

#achieved #achievements #against #back #backdrop

How much more must this be so in my own case for I am conscious not only of the great names and achievements of those who have preceded me, but also of the living presence of many of my masters and teachers. ↗

— Cecil Frank Powell

#also #am #case #conscious #great

Internationalism on the other hand admits that spiritual achievements have their roots deep in national life; from this national consciousness art and literature derive their character and strength and on it even many of the humanistic sciences are firmly based. ↗

— Christian Lous Lange

#art #based #character #consciousness #deep

Most achievements in science are to a certain degree group efforts. ↗

— Willard Libby

#certain #certain degree #degree #efforts #group