Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope Francis

It is no easy task to overcome the bitter legacy of injustices, hostility and mistrust left by the conflict. It can only be done by overcoming evil with good.

Anthony Trollope

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

Robert Kennedy

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Jim Boeheim

He cemented his legacy long before this. But people will remember this four-day performance forever.

Ronnie Dunn

I don't even know how to spell 'legacy!

Van Jones

The main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters.

Bill Bradley

I'm trying to remain true to the legacy of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King,

Ryan Howard

I'm going to try to uphold Jackie's legacy and play in a manner that would make him proud.

Paul Slattery

The important thing is the legacy lives and Tom lives with us.

Arlen Specter

When I'm asked about legacy, I say it's too early to talk about legacy.

Lawrence Wilkerson

The legacy of the Bush administration is a lack of positive action on energy and the environment and profligate and irresponsible spending with no commensurate action to deal with looming liabilities.

Lee Iacocca

Your legacy should be that you made it better than it was when you got it.

Walter Cronkite

Our task is not to tell the truth; we are opinion molders.

William Cowper

I will venture to assert, that a just translation of any ancient poet in rhyme is impossible. No human ingenuity can be equal to the task of closing every couplet with sounds homotonous, expressing at the same time the full sense, and only the full sense of his original.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

All translating seems to me to be simply an attempt to accomplish an impossible task.

Helen Hunt Jackson

Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.

Karl Marx

The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.

Julia Gillard

If we change the way the electricity sector operates, we can bring down our levels of carbon pollution, and continue the crucial task of tackling climate change. Putting a price on carbon would do this.

Oswald Chambers

As soon as we abandon ourselves to God and do the task He has placed closest to us, He begins to fill our lives with surprises.

Julia Quinn

And so Harry became proficient in the task of cleaning up vomit.

Bruce Schneier

Something that looks like a protocol but does not accomplish a task is not a protocol—it’s a waste of time.