Renowned Quotes

• On Saturday, I was a surgeon in South Africa, very little known. On Monday, I was world renowned.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Monday, Motivation, Science

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• A man renowned for repartee will seldom scruple to make free with friendship's finest feeling, will thrust a dagger at your breast, and say he wounded you in jest, by way of balm for healing.

  William Cowper

  Healing, Men, Feelings

  William Cowper, James Thomson (1832). “The Works of Cowper and Thompson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never Before Published in this Country. With a New and Interesting Memoir of the Life of Thomson”, p.136

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• Men of most renowned virtue have sometimes by transgressing most truly kept the law.

  John Milton

  Men, Law, Sometimes

  John Milton (1847). “The Prose Works of John Milton”, p.288

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• The Faculty of Technology of Tohoku University is renowned for its tradition of practical studies.

  Koichi Tanaka

  Technology, Study, Tradition

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• And I talked to my doctor, and I must admit, you know, I'm sometimes quite renowned for my outbursts and I was just very frustrated, maybe a little frightened.

  Elton John

  Doctors, Frustrated, Littles

  Interview with Larry King, transcripts.cnn.com. January 25, 2002.

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• Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

  John Milton

  Life, Peace, War

  "To the Lord General Cromwell" l. 10 (written 1652)

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• Only In America can a renowned and devoted terrorism supporter like Peter King be the arbiter of national security and treason.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Kings, America, Terrorism

  Twitter post from Jun 12, 2013

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• For me, Malak was always the 'brawn' to Revan's 'brain' - he was renowned for his combat abilities, and I always felt that he was even better than Revan with a lightsaber. I also felt that he wasn't as strong at using the Force in other ways as Revan was.

  Drew Karpyshyn

  Strong, Brain, Way

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• Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Mean, Men, Vanity

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.103

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• Yet much remains To conquer still; peace hath her victories No less renowned then war, new foes arise Threatening to bind our souls with secular chains: Help us to save free conscience from the paw Of hireling wolves whose gospel is their maw.

  John Milton

  War, Soul, Victory

  1652 'To the Lord General Cromwell'.

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• Rash combat oft immortalizes man; if he should fall, he is renowned in song; but after-ages reckon not the ceaseless tears which the forsaken woman sheds. Poets tell us not of the many nights consumed in weeping, or of the dreary days wherein her anguished soul vainly yearns to call her loved one back.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Song, Fall, Night

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• It's 2013 ... The Time's obituary for Yvonne Brill, renowned rocket scientist, winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovations, leads with, 'She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. "The world's best mom," her son Matthew said.

  Deborah Copaken

  Mom, Jobs, Children

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• If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

  Marlo Thomas

  Book, World, Firsts

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• The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International.

  Geoffrey K. Pullum

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• At that time, the academic orientation was rather technical contrary to that of the university, where art theory is very important. The teachers were renowned artists and among the best of that time.

  Ralph Allen

  Teacher, Art, Important

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• At one with the power of the American landscape, and renowned for the patient skill and timeless beauty of his work, photographer Ansel Adams has been visionary in his efforts to preserve this country's wild and scenic areas, both in film and on Earth. Drawn to the beauty of nature's monuments, he is regarded by environmentalists as a monument himself, and by photographers as a national institution. It is through his foresight and fortitude that so much of America has been saved for future Americans.

  Ansel Adams

  Country, Skills, America

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• Until the album is perfect and every track sounds like a single and has a world-renowned icon on it, it's not done.

  Riff Raff

  Icons, Track, Perfect

  Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. August 2, 2012.

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• Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?

  Bill Vaughan

  Heart, Brave, England

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• The renowned seventh-century Zen master Seng-tsan taught that true freedom is being "without anxiety about imperfection.

  Tara Brach

  Imperfection, Anxiety, Taught

  Tara Brach (2012). “Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame”, p.21, Random House

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• Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the comment that not only are universities a 'cathedral' for worship of knowledge, they are also 'sheltered workshops' for the socially challenged.

  Tony Attwood

  Character, Dedication, Tolerance

  Tony Attwood (2006). “The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome”, p.301, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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• Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they could possibly have done, if instead of being beloved and respected they had been hated and feared by those they commanded.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Leadership, Mean, Soldier

  Benjamin Franklin, William-Temple Franklin (1818). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of (the Same), Continued to the Time of His Death by William Temple Franklin. - London, H. Colburn 1818”

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• Many who are self-taught far excel the doctors, masters, and bachelors of the most renowned universities.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Hard Work, Doctors, Self

  Ludwig von Mises (1985). “Theory and History”, p.263, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours.

  Mark Twain

  Memories, Character, Men

  Mark Twain (2016). “Joan of Arc”, p.15, Ignatius Press

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• Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one of the most breathtaking and gut-wrenching challenges of his entire Sermon on the Mount, a speech renowned for its outrageous claims. There was no record of any other spiritual leader ever having articulated such a clear-cut, unambiguous command for people to express compassion to those who are actively working against their best interests.

  Lee Strobel

  Spiritual, Jesus, Prayer

  Lee Strobel (2005). “God's Outrageous Claims: Discover What They Mean for You”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• Since the birth of our nation, the steady performance of the Marine Corps in fighting America's battles has made it the very symbol of military excellence. The Corps has come to be recognized worldwide as an elite force of fighting men, renowned for their physical endurance, for their high level of obedience, and for the fierce pride they take, as individuals, in the capacity for self discipline.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Military, Fighting, Pride

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