#alexander

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander. ↗

— Charles Caleb Colton

#contentment #depends #enough #large #large enough

The only history is a mere question of one's struggle inside oneself. But that is the joy of it. One need neither discover Americas nor conquer nations, and yet one has as great a work as Columbus or Alexander, to do. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#americas #columbus #conquer #discover #great

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes. ↗

— Plutarch

#i #were #would

How much do you have to pay someone to be in a George Clooney/Alexander Payne film? Nothing! Because everyone in the world wants to be a part of it. Therefore you pay nothing. And that continues until you become something they need... I'm not that kind of actor. I'm blue collar and very replaceable. ↗

— Matthew Lillard

#alexander #because #become #blue #blue collar

Would Alexander, madman as he was, have been so much a madman, had it not been for Homer? ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#been #had #homer #madman #much

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing, and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even. ↗

— Will Rogers

#been #being #closest #country #even

When I'm dead and gone, people will know that the twenty-first century was started by Alexander McQueen. ↗

— Alexander McQueen

#century #dead #gone #i #know

I felt somehow for many years that George Washington and Alexander Hamilton just left me out by mistake. But through the process of amendment, interpretation, and court decision, I have finally been included in "We, the people." ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#amendment #been #court #court decision #decision

My younger years of modeling were really just filled with fun trips. I was doing catalogues for Alexander's and Bloomingdale's. ↗

— Brooke Shields

#catalogues #doing #filled #fun #i

I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed. ↗

— Oliver Stone

#along #believe #come #exist #existed