Legends Quotes - Page 8

• Everybody says it: black, white; everybody calls me a legend. Italians, Jews. Everybody

  Roberto Duran

  White, Black, Call Me

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• To be a legend, you generally had to be dead.

  Nalini Singh

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.35, Penguin

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• Sometimes reality is too complex for oral communication. But legend embodies it in a form which enables it to spread all over the world.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Communication, Reality, World

  "Alphaville". www.imdb.com. 1965.

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• I’m going to check the world’s best source for spawning new urban legends, the Internet. What, you thought I couldn’t even type? The Web is just another threshold between one world and another.

  Nalo Hopkinson

  Urban Legends, World, Internet

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• Contrary to the legend, Darwin's finches do not appear to have inspired his earliest theoretical views on evolution, even after he finally became an evolutionist in 1837; rather it was his evolutionary views that allowed him, retrospectively, to understand the complex case of the finches.

  Frank Sulloway

  Science, Views, Evolution

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• I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Hurt, Writing, Patriotic

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.432, Simon and Schuster

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• Then, accepting the help of God and of God's signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that life has reserved for him.

  Paulo Coelho

  God, Light, Tasks

  "The Manual of the Warrior of Light". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1997.

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• Great genetics are not necessarily a precursor for success in the game. Brazilian Legend Pelé has often said that soccer stars are not born. Without proper soccer training a player will never reach his full potential. It is true that great speed would benefit someone who plays as a winger but would not be as useful for a goalkeeper. The greatest advantage of soccer is that it is not as discriminating as basketball or volleyball. There are no limitations when it comes to physique and it all comes down to individual soccer skills.

  Pele

  Basketball, Soccer, Volleyball

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• I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, to convince Atheisme, because his Ordinary Works Convince it. It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Mens Mindes about to Religion.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Believe, Miracle

  Essays "Of Atheism" (1625)

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• Legends are not born - they are created.

  Ricky Pierce

  Basketball, Born

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• Hear it when i get biz for K-Von, I'm pledgin, died, on 104 Northern Boulevard corona queens legend

  Kool G Rap

  Queens, Rap, Boulevard

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• ...the history of early-medieval Arabia is nearly all legend. Like Buddha, Confucius, Jesus, and other founders of patriarchal religions, Mohammed lacks real verification. There is no reliable information about his life or teachings. Most stories about him are as apocryphal as the story that his coffin hangs forever in mid-air "between heaven and earth," like the bodies of ancient sacred kings.

  Barbara G. Walker

  Jesus, Kings, Real

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• If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Children, Fall, Mean

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• I happen to be a three-time former WWF Champion and a hardcore legend, and I never had my own dressing room.

  Mick Foley

  Wrestling, Champion, Three

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• The order of ... successive generations is indeed much more clearly proved than many a legend which has assumed the character of history in the hands of man; for the geological record is the work of God.

  Roderick Murchison

  Character, Science, Men

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• People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.

  Helen Fisher

  Valentines Day, Song, Motivation

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• Mixtape legend, underground kings... Looking for the right way to do the wrong things

  Drake

  Kings, Hip Hop, Mixtapes

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• No, I don't like legend. I mean, I don't like the category. And to begin with, to me, a legend is something that is not on the Earth, that is dead

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Mean, Earth

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• How is Christmas regarded today? The legend of Santa Claus, the Christmas tree, the decorations of tinsel and mistletoe, and the giving of gifts all express to us the spirit of the day we celebrate; but the true spirit of Christmas lies much deeper than these. It is found in the life of the Savior, in the principles He taught, in His atoning sacrifice-which become our great heritage.

  Howard W. Hunter

  Lying, Sacrifice, Giving

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• It's a huge honour to wear No 7 at Liverpool. I think about the legends: Dalglish, Keegan and that Australian guy.

  Luis Suarez

  Football, Thinking, Guy

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• Knowledge enormous makes a God of me.
  Names, deeds, gray legends, dire events, rebellions,
  Majesties, sovran voices, agonies,
  Creations and destroyings, all at once
  Pour into the wide hollows of my brain,
  And deify me, as if some blithe wine
  Or bright elixir peerless I had drunk,
  And so become immortal.

  John Keats

  Wine, Agony, Names

  John Keats (2015). “John Keats - The Man Behind The Lyrics: Life, letters, and literary remains: Complete Letters and Two Extensive Biographies of one of the most beloved English Romantic poets”, p.307, e-artnow

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• She's a legend. She's really huge in the Czech Republic. Everywhere, actually.

  Petra Kvitova

  Czech Republic, Huge, Republic

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• India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

  Mark Twain

  Mother, Past, Men

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• Strange when you come to think of it, that of all countless folk who have lived on this planet, not one is known in history or in legend as having died of laughter.

  Max Beerbohm

  Laughter, Thinking, Strange

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.119, New York Review of Books

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• The legend of the best player of chess has been destroyed.

  Garry Kasparov

  Player, Chess, Has Beens

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