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Michael Korda Quotes

English - Novelist | October 8, 1933 -

One way to keep momentum going is to have constantly greater goals.

Motivational Goals Momentum Way Keep

The pleasure lies not in the cookies, but in the pattern the crumbs make when the cookies crumble.

Cookies Pleasure Make Lies Pattern

Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.

Success Achievement Easy Measure

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.

Succeed World Rise Above Rise Accept

Prime ministers come and go, but so long as he or she lives, the sovereign remains, receiving and reading all state papers and meeting once a week with the prime minister to advise, enquire, and comment - sometimes sharply, as was the case with Queen Elizabeth II and Mrs. Thatcher - on affairs of state.

Queen Reading Week Long Meeting Go

There used to be a strong belief that if you wanted to know what was really going on in a country, the best thing to do was to go there and ask a taxi driver.

Best Strong You Country Go Know

I have an admiration for Mr. Eastwood that borders on the kind that I have for the Grand Canyon. Like it, he is craggy, worn, awesomely impressive and unique, a living four-star tourist attraction that, in the formulaic words of the Guide Michelin, 'vaut le voyage.'

Words Unique Grand Canyon Living

Luck can often mean simply taking advantage of a situation at the right moment. It is possible to make your luck by being always prepared.

Moment Luck Situation Possible Mean

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.

Great War World World War I Europe

When my elders mentioned 'The War,' they invariably meant that of 1914-1918, even after 1939, for the Second World War was merely the continuation of the first, 'an armistice of 20 years,' as Marshal Foch had accurately predicted at the Versailles Peace Conference, with some changes of side.

Peace War World Elders Changes Side

T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted on a camel, leading the Arab tribes against the Turks in World War One.

War World More Camel Glamorous Far

An ounce of hypocracy is worth a pound of ambition.

Ambition Worth Pound Ounce

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