Legends Quotes - Page 4

• Legends die hard. They survive as truth rarely does.

  Helen Hayes

  Doe, Dies, Hard

  Helen Hayes (1969). “Another Fawcett Crest Book”

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• You're a legend in your own mind.

  Harry Callahan

  Mind

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• They do not depend upon mere legends and myths. They are not predicated on the false conception that the Emperor is divine and that the Japanese people are superior to other races.

  Hirohito

  Race, People, Divine

  Address denying his divinity, 1 Jan. 1946

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• In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Believe, Struggle, Mean

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• Batman has been acknowledged as a legend in my lifetime.

  Bob Kane

  Lifetime, Has Beens

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• I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

  Francis Bacon

  Believe, Mind, Atheism

  Essays "Of Atheism" (1625)

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• But life has no smooth roads for any of us. And in the bracing atmosphere of a high aim, the very roughness only stimulates the climber to sturdier and steadier steps, till that other legend of the rough places fulfils itself at last; "per aspera ad astra;" over steep ways to the stars.

  William Croswell Doane

  Life, Motivational, Stars

  "Addresses to the Graduating Classes of St. Agnes School".

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• You will not find the treasure of your Personal Legend unless you want to live that Legend.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Personal Legend

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• I am not going to be a star. I am going to be a legend.

  Freddie Mercury

  Stars

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• A picture lives by its legend - not by anything else.

  Pablo Picasso

  Belief, Live By

  Pablo Picasso, Gary Tinterow, Susan Alyson Stein, Magdalena Dabrowski, Christel Hollevoet (2010). “Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art”, p.110, Metropolitan Museum of Art

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• Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we will be hurled into that void, within which, like the earth before the Word was spoken, the foundations of society are hidden.

  James A. Baldwin

  Society, Together, Foundation

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• Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

  H. L. Mencken

  Birthday, Lying, History

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• The idea of the chickens with the multiple breasts and thighs came from an urban legend that some fast-food places had developed chickens with four thighs. It wasn't true, but it is a suggestive rumor.

  Margaret Atwood

  Urban Legends, Ideas, Rumor

  "Margaret Atwood Remixes Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” as a Prison Drama". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. September, 2016.

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• The lives of great men are like legends-difficult but beautiful.

  Janusz Korczak

  Beautiful, Men, Difficult

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• Dave Mackay was the kind of footballer that legends are built around. He was simply the greatest - tough as teak on the pitch and a real gentleman off it.

  Alex Salmond

  Real, Gentleman, Tough

  FaceBook post by Alex Salmond from Mar 03, 2015

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• I can't be a legend yet. I'm not dead.

  Maynard James Keenan

  I Can

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• The key to the Grail is compassion, 'suffering with,' feeling another's sorrow as if it were your own. The one who finds the dynamo of compassion is the one who's found the Grail.

  Joseph Campbell

  Compassion, Keys, Feelings

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• There are always the simple events of your life that you might try to convert into legend.

  Stephen Dunn

  Simple, Trying, Events

  Stephen Dunn (1995). “New and Selected Poems 1974-1994”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Legends have always played a powerful role in the making of history. ... Without ever relating facts reliably, yet always expressing their true significance, they offered a truth beyond realities, a remembrance beyond memories.

  Hannah Arendt

  Memories, Powerful, Reality

  Hannah Arendt (1968). “Imperialism: Part Two Of The Origins Of Totalitarianism”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The only job you have in life is to recognize and honor your personal legend

  Paulo Coelho

  Jobs, Honor, Personal Legend

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• At the end of the day, I wanna be a great...a legend. I've been working hard.

  Gorilla Zoe

  The End Of The Day, Ends, Hard

  Source: uproxx.com

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• Sometimes a legend that endures for centuries... endures for a reason.

  Dan Brown

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Lasts, Sometimes

  Dan Brown (2010). “The Lost Symbol Illustrated edition”, p.144, Random House

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• If you trust yourself, any choice you make will be correct. If you do not trust yourself, anything you do will be wrong. - Kung Fu, The Legend Continues -

  David Carradine

  Choices, Kung Fu, Trust Yourself

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• The Nephilim was something I'd known about since I was really young. If you're familiar with the first book of the Bible, Genesis, you see the sons of God seduce some of the women on the earth and they produce a race of people known as the Nephilim. According to legend they taught man about war, astrology, and magic. I'm fascinated by the idea.

  Carl McCoy

  War, Book, Son

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• There are fun nights, there are crazy nights, and then there are those nights that make men legends.

  Tucker Max

  Fun, Crazy, Night

  Tucker Max (2011). “I Hope They Serve Beer In Hell”, p.24, Citadel

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