Strove To Achieve Quotes

#1. More than anything else I recall being, or trying very deliberately to be, a perfect child. Not a Goody Two-shoes, but a kid who did good, who worked hard and met every expectation. I strove to achieve in the excessive way that psychotherapists tend to regard with concern.

James McGreevey

#2. I was unsure about many things in my life, but I was fairly certain God did not intend bacon to be made from a plant.

Suzanne Johnson

#3. I get sometimes; I get lonesome right in the middle of a crowd.

Elvis Presley

#4. You come to the photograph as an aesthetic object with no context ... Then you step in and read the text and then out again to revisit the image in a completely different way. I'm interested in that space between text and image. The piece becomes the negative space between the two.

Taryn Simon

#5. If it can be known, I want to know it.

Rachel Hartman

#6. I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of those people who wrote songs quickly. But I'm not. So it takes me a great deal of time to find out what the song is.

Leonard Cohen

#7. I looked forward to seeing it restored, not just for Grayson's sake, but for the sake of beauty itself. A place like this shouldn't be allowed to crumble to ruin.

Mia Sheridan

#8. [R]est assured that, when you remain thus in the state in which obedience has placed you, the merit of this same obedience extends over everything you do, giving each action inestimable value, even when things do not turn out as you wish.

Vincent De Paul

#9. Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.

Terry Pratchett

#10. Hatred destroys the person who hates.

James A. Baldwin