#did

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#did #literally #ourselves #things #would

You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve. ↗

— King Edward VIII

#did #empire #forget #i #i want you

But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#box #create #did #done #esteem

I don't see a candidate on the scene right now, but it is going to have to be a candidate that people can look at as a leader and not as a man or a woman. ↗

— Julie Nixon Eisenhower

#going #i #leader #look #man

I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but the living strength and majesty of the Commonwealth and Empire; of societies old and new; of lands and races different in history and origins but all, by God's Will, united in spirit and in aim. ↗

— Queen Elizabeth II

#annals #behind #commonwealth #different #empire

I jumped 18 cars on a motorcycle, so I did almost everything. ↗

— David R. Ellis

#cars #did #everything #i #jumped

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#i #involved #knew #making #nixon

If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration. ↗

— Lincoln Ellsworth

#affection #austere #did #father #feels

I published, privately, a collection of my serious poetry I had written over the years. I only published 50 copies, which I gave to friends, in a special deluxe edition. It was ridiculously expensive but I'm glad that I did it. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#copies #deluxe #did #edition #expensive

I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary. ↗

— Enya

#been #celebrity #could #did #famous