Being Illustrious Quotes

#1. Fame legitimizes. Being conspicuous gets confused with being illustrious.

Nina Easton

#2. Love is like falconry," he said. "Don't you think that's true, Cleveland?"
"Never say love is like anything." said Cleveland. "It isn't.

Michael Chabon

#3. There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.

Victor Hugo

#4. In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.

Sallust

#5. When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do; when we depend upon education, we get what education can do; when we depend upon man, we get what man can do; but when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do. A. C. Dixon

John Piper

#6. If flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom, that is not because they are too solid, too gross, too distinct, too "illustrious with being." They are too flimsy, too transitory, too phantasmal.

C.S. Lewis

#7. When you do not accept the insult some one casts on you, it goes back to the person who indulged in it first; a registered letter that is not accepted returns to the sender.

Sathya Sai Baba

#8. She should tell him no, but instead she seemed to be running toward trouble, leaving no stone unturned, no boy unkissed, no crush abandoned, and no bad idea unembraced.

Holly Black

#9. I think that the sweetest freedom for a man on earth consists in being able to live, if he likes, without having the need to work.

Salvador Dali

#10. Knowledge about limitations of your data collection process affects what inferences you can draw from the data.

Nick Bostrom

#11. In the end, I think that I will like that we were sitting on the bed, talking & wondering where the time had gone.

Brian Andreas