Quotes
Authors -- Lee
All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.
Then he will talk--good gods! how he will talk! -- Alexander the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.
Vows with so much passion, swears with so much grace,
That 't is a kind of heaven to be deluded by him. -- Alexander the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.
When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war. -- Alexander the Great. Act iv. Sc. 2.
'T is beauty calls, and glory shows the way. -- Alexander the Great. Act iv. Sc. 2.
Man, false man, smiling, destructive man! -- Theodosius. Act iii. Sc. 2.
The leader who exercises power with honor will work from the inside out, starting with himself.
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. -- Memoirs of Lee. Eulogy on Washington, Dec. 26, 1799.
The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. - Kahlil Gibran.
Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird. -- To Kill a Mockingbird (ch. 10)
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly.
People see the world not as it is, but as they are.
Write down the most important things you have to do tomorrow. Now, number them in the order of their true importance. The first thing tomorrow morning, start working on an item Number 1, and stay with it until completed. Then take item Number the same way. Then Num!, and so on. Don't worry if you don't complete everything on the schedule. At least you will have completed the most important projects before getting to the less important ones.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
They called me mad, and I called them mad, and damn them, they outvoted me.
A vice is a failure of desire. -- Crowds (bk. IV, ch. XIII)
Business today consists in persuading crowds.
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
The education of a man is never completed until he dies.
The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee.
The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
The great man is the man who can get himself made and who will get himself made out of anything he finds at hand. -- Crowds (bk. II, ch. XV)
Never do a wrong thing to make a friend or to keep one. -Robert E. Lee.
A true man of honor feels humbled himself when he cannot help humbling others.
I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what.
What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity. -- Crowds (bk. II, ch. XVIII)
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else. -- Crowds (bk. II, ch. XVIII)
I have seen that Man moves over with each new generation into a bigger body, more awful, more reverent and more free than he has had before. -- Crowds (pt. II, ch. III)
While foulest fiends shun thy society. -- Rival Queens (V, I, 86)
When the sun sets, shadows, that showed at noon But small, appear most long and terrible. -- Oedipus, said to be written by Lee and Dryden
Then he will talk--good gods, how he will talk! -- Alexander the Great (act I, sc. 1)
The dictate of the light says: "Know yourself and what you are." The dark replies, "By all means, but then become afraid."
People see the world not as it is, but as they are.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows.
It is well that war is so terrible--we shouldn't grow too fond of it.
First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his fellow citizens. -- resolution on Washington's death prepared by Lee and offered in the House of Representatives by John
First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen. -- Funeral Oration on Washington
I'm no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system—that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality.
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu. -- Crowds (bk. IV, ch. X)
Turning the other cheek is a kind of moral jiu-jitsu.
When I was a little kid, I took tap and ballet. I've always loved to dance. I'm a rhythm machine.
