success

"You know, all of my life, I've heard that a truly successful person, a really, really successful person and even modestly successful cannot run for public office. Just can't happen. And yet that's the…"

"As I said this morning, I am not impressed by the opportunities open to popular fronts throughout the world. I do not believe that any democrat can successfully ride that tiger. But I do believe in th…"

"…gender is cultural: we have menarche to deal with, virginity, menopause, pregnancy, childbirth; these things are unavoidable. And in some places they've been wise enough to have ritual and ceremony a…"

"The solidarity of all progressive forces of the world towards the people of Vietnam today is similar to the bitter irony of the plebeians coaxing on the gladiators in the Roman arena. It is not a matt…"

"The outguards report nothing worthy your Excellency's notice this morning."

"“He's not the quickest, he doesn't run the most, he never wins a header, he can't tackle but he's the best player”."

"The purest evil that human efforts could attain, in other words, was probably achieved by those men who made their wills the same and who made their eyes see the world in the same way, men who went ag…"

"Failure is a frequent stop on the road to success."

"I do not think who will win or lose, neither will win or lose, they will win and lose. Everybody will lose."

"There are huge differences in the way male and female actors are perceived. Women have to be a certain size, in order to get good roles. The only successful, larger-than-average female actor I can thi…"

"Regarding Reza Shah, it should be said: Many of the benevolent ideals of Iran were fulfilled by Reza Shah, from founding the National Bank, overthrowing the capitulation, unifying the clothes, railway…"

"I'm showing an interest in your work. I thought you liked me showing an interest in your work. My showing. Save the gerund and screw the whale."

"CBC Digital Archives: Alanis Obomsawin"

"An aristocratic society may hold that a soldier or a man of learning is superior to a rich manufacturer or banker, but in a democratic society the latter are inevitably put higher, if only because the…"

"Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainm…"

"Crises feed uncertainty. And uncertainty affects behaviour, which feeds the crisis."

"Victory will only be victory if the land is restored in the hands of rightful owners. And rightful owners unashamedly is black people. No white person is a rightful owner of the land here in South Afr…"

"The game itself is bigger than the winning."

"Plan A is to hitch a ride out of here. But if they want a war, then plan B is to win it."

"His feet were like fine copper when glowing in a furnace, and his voice was like the sound of many waters."