No empire lasts forever, no dynasty continues unbroken. Some day, you and I will be mere legends. All that matters is whether we did what we could with the life that was given to us.
History will remember you for your accomplishments, not for your ability.
The minimum you should do with your life is to at least reproduce it.
You were born for more than just living in mediocrity and dying after your time here evaporates.
The joy of writing. The power of preserving. Revenge of a mortal hand.
I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that whereas women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men - great men - must build monuments and seek fame?
She should have a ride named after her at Epcot, man.
Do not speak to me of martyrdom, of men who die to be remembered on some parish day. I don't believe in dying though, I too shall die. And violets like castanets will echo me.
I want to travel in Europe, Alyosha, I shall set off from here. And yet I know that I am only going to a graveyard, but it's a most precious graveyard, that's what it is! Precious are the dead that...
My films are just stories, but that's all we have, the stories we tell others and the stories we tell ourselves. When you talk to the elderly, men and women at the end of their lives, you see that's...
I thought I heard you—one of you—saying it was a pity—a pity I never had any children … eh? … But I have, you know … I have …
A song can last long after the events and people in it are dust and dreams and gone.
Lawrence will go on burying his own undertakers.
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes....
The real social contract, {Edmund Burke} argued, was not Rousseau's social contract between the noble savage and the General Will, but a "partnership" between the present generation and future...
What you do with your resources in this life is your autobiography.
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....