Grasslands Map Quotes & Sayings

I used a light hand with my makeup because I wanted to look good without looking like a good time. — Marta Acosta

You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree - the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men. — Chinua Achebe

As there is a use in medicine for poisons, so the world cannot move without rogues. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've said it before and can only repeat that I owe everything to Boudin and I attribute my success to him. I came to be fascinated by his studies, the products of what I call instantaneity. — Claude Monet

So Satan, whom repulse upon repulse Met ever, and to shameful silence brought, Yet gives not o'er though desperate of success. — John Milton

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success. — Frances E. Willard

While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped
Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin,
And starlight wood, with fearful steps pursuing
Hopes of high talk with the departed dead. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

I'm still a fiscal conservative, and I'm inclined to pay down debt. — Jim Flaherty

If you try to over-control what you think you will achieve, you'll miss what you can actually accomplish. — Patrick Wolff

Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love" ... is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility. — Jose Ortega Y Gasset

The events of September 11 and what has happened since have made people understand that even a small, distant and far away country like Afghanistan cannot be left to break up into anarchy and chaos without consequences for the whole world. — Lakhdar Brahimi

When you're that successful, things have a momentum, and at a certain point you can't really tell whether you have created the momentum or it's creating you. — Annie Lennox

Consider Steve Jobs. One biographer said, "Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead he was a genius." Jobs dropped out of college, went to find himself in India, and at one point was forced out of Apple, the company he co-founded, when sales were slow in 1985. Few would have predicted the level of his success by his death. "Think different" became the slogan of a multinational monolith that fused art and technology under his guidance. Jobs may have been average or unexceptional in many domains, but his vision and ability to think differently made him a genius. — Brian Hare

You cannot save time, but you can spend time differently. — Brian Tracy