Quotes of Prominence - somelinesforyou

“ In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then beleive them to be true. ”

- Buddha

“ A distinction should be made that. ”

- Jack Kemp

“ Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ Hell is oneself; Hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone. ”

- George Eliot

“ Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent. ”

- Cleopatra

“ Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality. ”

- St. Thomas Aquinas

“ He had a genius for backing into the limelight. ”

- Lowell Thomas

“ Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul? ”

- Socrates

“ Reputations are made by searching for things that can't be done and doing them. ”

- Frank Tyger

“ I'm always honest, whether I'm in the limelight or not. ”

- Anne Heche

“ That monstrous tuberosity of civilized life, the capital of England. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ I see my reputation is at stake:My fame is shewdly gor'd. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Reputations will continue to be made by many acts and be lost by one. ”

- Unknown

“ Reputations will continue to be made by many acts and be lost by one. ”

- Unknown

“ And reputation bleeds in ev'ry word. ”

- Charles Churchill

“ Projective geometry is all geometry. ”

- Arthur Cayley

“ I am better than my reputation. ”

- Johann Friedrich von Schiller

“ It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. ”

- Thomas Huxley

“ I love being an older comic now. It's like being an old soccer or an old baseball player. You're in the Hall of Fame and it's nice, but you're no longer that person in the limelight on the spot doing that thing. ”

- Eric Idle

“ People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher — a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away… ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald
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