#succeed

Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall. ↗

— Eleanor Clift

#does #down #extent #fall #go

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

#gold #helping #into #paradise #possesses

My father died prematurely at the age of 52 when I was 24, and it is a recurring regret that he never lived to see me succeed beyond university and drama. ↗

— Richard E. Grant

#beyond #died #drama #father #i

If the tanks succeed, then victory follows. ↗

— Heinz Guderian

#succeed #tanks #then #victory

Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed. ↗

— Francesco Guicciardini

#depend #many #rarely #succeed

There is a question for which we will never know the answer: had the U.S. not launched the Contra war to overthrow the Sandinista government, would they have succeeded in bringing socioeconomic justice to the people of Nicaragua? ↗

— Bianca Jagger

#bringing #contra #economic justice #government #had

Every movie that I do, if you analyze the stories, you can notice that in each story, that within the movie after the first 15 minutes, it could fall apart. Or every 10 minutes it has the chance that you lose the thread. On the other hand, if you succeed in putting them together, then the movie looks spontaneous and more like cinema. ↗

— Emir Kusturica

#after #analyze #apart #chance #cinema

The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language. ↗

— Donald Knuth

#good #i #i am #important #important thing

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success. ↗

— Michael Korda

#fail #failure #freedom #from time to time #going

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it. ↗

— Michael Korda

#accept #necessary #rise #rise above #succeed