Achieved Quotes

As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achieved and the right outcomes can occur.

There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

I believe that Brazil was prepared to elect a woman. Why? Because Brazilian women achieved that. I didn't come here by myself, by my own merits. We are a majority here in this country.

I consider myself very lucky. God has a funny way of bringing some things around and knocking you in the head with the ultimate destination. Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to. It came in His time, not mine.

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

People might say, 'Jimmy Cliff, you've done a lot, achieved a lot. What more can you want?'

In my fifty years of experience and memory, I have seen the most amazing increase in the standard of living of a people ever achieved anywhere in the world. This is why I am so sure that our system of free competition and industrial development is sound and must be preserved.

I made a movie to explain to the American public what had been achieved in regards to disarmament of Iraq and why inspectors aren't in Iraq today and detailing the very complex, murky history of interaction between Iraq, the United Nations and the United States. It is most definitely not a pro-Iraq movie. It is a pro-truth movie.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

What we have achieved is a good example of how the right policies deliver.

Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.

Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

All the legal action I've taken against newspapers has had a massively positive effect on my life and achieved exactly what I wanted, which is privacy and non-harassment.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation.

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

President Reagan achieved such successes because when you sat in a room with him, there could be over 1,000 people in the room, yet you felt like there was only the two of you, and his wonderful wit would put you at ease. That was a tremendous gift.

The fact that I've achieved this so soon is just a bonus, I guess. Everything from now on is a bonus for me.

For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.

As far as my dreams go, all I want to do is be a working actor, and I happily achieved that.

I'm very proud of what my parents achieved and what they stood for. They didn't have much, but in many ways they were richer than most.

As an actor, to have achieved financial stability is amazing. But I always have this weird fear that I'm not going to get any more work; it's about not having enough money.

It is apparent that Christianity and Islam must come, and come immediately, to a closer understanding, and it is equally apparent that their unity if achieved, will be the most effective defensive measure against Communist expansion.

I did get to work with Anthony Hopkins on 'The Human Stain.' If I ever manage to accomplish a quarter of what he's achieved, I'll have had one hell of a career.

People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

Something I should have achieved quite easily took me a long time to get around to.

I've had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I've raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don't know if I love it enough any more.

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

I haven't achieved as much as I should have done in my career.