Congratulations Quotes - Page 16

• Tell all the Truth but tell it slant-- Success in Circuit lies Too bright for our infirm Delight The Truth's superb surprise As Lightning to the Children eased With explanation kind The Truth must dazzle gradually Or every man be blind--

  Emily Dickinson

  Children, Lying, Men

  Emily Dickinson, Helen Vendler (2010). “Dickinson”, p.431, Harvard University Press

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• Congratulations. You have met your conscience. In my experience, the world is divided between those who have one and those who don't. And the ones with one are divided into those who will act on their conscience and those who won't. Those who will are, I'm afraid, the smallest category. They will *jeito*. It's Brazilian Portuguese. It means to find a way to get something done, no matter what the obstacles.

  Jean Ferris

  Mean, Done, World

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• I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.

  Leonard Cohen

  Regret, Past, Self

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• I know I hated magic for a reason," Janco said. "Congratulations. This is the first time you've had a VALID reason to hate something," Ari countered. "Remember your campaign against sand?" "Sand! Horrid little stuff. Gets everywhere. I had a perfectly good argue--" "Janco." Ari's voice rumbled deep in his throat. In a heartbeat, Janco switched gears. "Well, this blood magic sounds worse than sand.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Hate, Perfectly Good, Blood

  Maria V. Snyder (2013). “Storm Glass”, p.422, MIRA

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• Congratulations, you've just been promoted!

  Christopher Paolini

  Eragon

  "Eragon". www.imdb.com. 2006.

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• Jesus Christ knew he was God. So wake up and find out eventually who you really are. In our culture, of course, they’ll say you’re crazy and you’re blasphemous, and they’ll either put you in jail or in a nut house (which is pretty much the same thing). However if you wake up in India and tell your friends and relations, ‘My goodness, I’ve just discovered that I’m God,’ they’ll laugh and say, ‘Oh, congratulations, at last you found out.

  Alan Watts

  Jesus, Crazy, Nuts

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• Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Stupidest, Name Of The Wind

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• Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies.

  Emily Dickinson

  Lying, Deceit, Dazzle

  c.1868 Complete Poems, no.1129 (first published 1945).

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• An Eagle Scout deserves a letter of congratulations, but not a proclamation, ... That's a normal process. It's not a heroic process.

  Frank Bruno

  Eagles, Letters, Normal

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• Surprisingly enough, I haven't had a letter from Amateur Boxing Scotland bosses offering their congratulations for my Melbourne medal win.

  Kenny Anderson

  Winning, Offering, Scotland

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• The Lord gave us two ends - one to sit on and the other to think with. Success depends on which one we use the most.

  Ann Landers

  Motivational, Success, Thinking

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• Overall Bush's European trip has been an overwhelming success. Not once has he gotten separated from his group.

  David Letterman

  Success, Groups, Overwhelming

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• What is so remarkable about the success of affirmative action is that it has been accomplished despite the Justice Department and the policies of the federal government.

  Harold Washington

  Government, Justice, Action

  Harold Washington, Alton Miller (1988). “Climbing a Great Mountain: Selected Speeches of Mayor Harold Washington”

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• It occurred to Dr. Lecter in the moment that with all his knowledge and intrusion, he could never entirely predict her, or own her at all. He could feed the caterpillar, he could whisper through the chrysalis; what hatched out followed its own nature and was beyond him. He wondered if she had the .45 on her leg beneath the gown. Clarice Starling smiled at him then, the cabochons caught the firelight and the monster was lost in self-congratulation at his own exquisite taste and cunning.

  Thomas Harris

  Self, Monsters, Drs

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• The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs... one step at a time.

  Joe Girard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  Joe Girard, Robert Casemore (1979). “How to Sell Yourself”, Simon & Schuster

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• People always say congratulations. When you're a successful bidder it means you're willing to spend more money than anyone else. I'm not sure if that's congratulations or condolences.

  Eli Broad

  Positive, Condolences, Mean

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• There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?

  Kin Hubbard

  Life, Success, Humor

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• The manager sits down with me; I sit down with the board. We assess the success of the year. The manager assesses whose coming through the academy system. His job is to look at what is happening in European and world football.

  David Gill

  Football, Jobs, Years

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• You know, you want everything you do, obviously, to be a success critically and commercially. But what you find out as you go along is that everything won't.

  Lee Ann Womack

  Success, Want, Knows

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• I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.

  Richard Linklater

  School, Rocks, People

  Interview with Michael Koresky and Jeff Reichert, reverseshot.org. July 2, 2004.

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• There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.

  David McCullough

  Inspirational, Persons

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• Only in the spirit of attack, born in a brave heart, will bring success to any fighter aircraft, no matter how highly developed it may be.

  Adolf Galland

  Heart, Brave, May

  Adolf Galland (1954). “The first and the last: the rise and fall of the German fighter forces, 1938-1945”

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• Please receive in the name of the Spanish government and the people of Spain our warmest congratulations for your election as Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and my best wishes for the Papacy which you begin today. [to Pope Benedict XVI]

  Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero

  Government, Names, People

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• The doorway to success cannot be opened with a key, but rather a combination

  Daniel R. Fitzpatrick

  Success, Keys, Doorways

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• That little boy is driving well and he's putting well. He's doing everything it takes to win. So, you know what you guys do when he gets in here? You pat him on the back and say congratulations and enjoy it and tell him not serve fried chicken next year. Got it? [...] Or collard greens or whatever the hell they serve.

  Fuzzy Zoeller

  Golf, Winning, Boys

  "Golfer says comments about Woods 'misconstrued'". www.cnn.com. April 21, 1997.

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