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Christopher Columbus

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WINSTON CHURCHILL My destiny has never been and never will be curbed. I am simply moving ahead in another vehicle.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER With a clear vision you will arrive at your define-destination.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A peaceful life is always the best destination one can ever arrive at and it is the only real heaven...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
MARGOT ASQUITH Love is merely a destination; One with many travel routes; Ultimately, we arrive.
ABDULLAH ALI Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. The person travelling at the fastest pace does not always arrive at their destination first.
RASHEED OGUNLARU How often do you go to an exhibit and see something that traveled with Christopher Columbus?
CARTER LUPTON One will have to devoutly contemplate only about the destination he wants to arrive at, otherwise he...
DADA BHAGWAN In a museum in Havana there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, Òone when he was a boy and one ...
MARK TWAIN If you don't know where you are going, you can arrive at any destination.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies ...
ANDREW COYLE BRADLEY When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
LARA ST. JOHN We are kept from our goal not by obstacles but by a clear path to a lesser goal.
ROBERT BRAULT God does not lead all His servants by one road, nor in one way, nor at one time; for God is in all t...
JOHN TAULER Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
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DAVE COOPER Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and mot...
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BRUNO WALTER A man must grow up as his own person and shape his own character in order to identify his destinatio...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Our collective journey towards common coveted goal trips or fails to beget any result, not because o...
ANUJ SOMANY Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its desti...
MAYA ANGELOU Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at it destin...
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ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Overcome obstacles one at a time: Sometimes the end goal becomes too daunting, so take things one st...
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MARK TWAIN I used all diligence to arrive at London and therefore I now gave my crew a certificate under my han...
HENRY HUDSON When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.
ORLANDO BLOOM You cannot continue on the same path and arrive at a different destination. Make the choice to have ...
STEVE MARABOLI The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men d...
HANNAH ARENDT While a man of pure intelligence may achieve the
goal by the most casual of instruction, anothe...
ASHTAVAKRA GITA It’s this or nothing at all.
R.J. GROVES When you know your destination, you are more likely to arrive there
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DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Neil Armstrong was no Christopher Columbus. In most respects, he was better. Unlike the famous fifte...
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ERIC HEIDEN For ye may all prophesy one by one, that all may learn, and all may be comforted.
BIBLE In fact I've reached the stage where I look at people and say - he or she, they are whole at all bec...
DORIS LESSING I wish I was one of those persnickety types who buys guidebooks and studies them, but I don't ha...
CANDACE BUSHNELL I'm afraid that in the United States of America today the prevailing doctrine of justification is no...
R.C. SPROUL What may appear to be the wrong way by other people's standards may indeed be the perfectly inspired...
LINDA CULL And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the...
CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS A simple dreams start with striving then imagination transform into a goal then goal into your desti...
EINSTINE ORLINE G. NERCUIT If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actually arrive...
ZIG ZIGLAR If Broadway no longer seems behind the times or ahead of the times, it may be because there are no &...
JAMES WOLCOTT We see it [the as-yet unseen, probable new planet, Neptune] as Columbus saw America from the coast o...
WILLIAM HERSCHEL Concentrate on any task at hand and avoid distractions from people or things
SUNDAY ADELAJA Notwithstanding a handful of continued announcements regarding downsizing or closure, the prevailing...
LINCOLN SCHROCK Wonder knows that while you cannot look at the light, you cannot look at anything else without it. I...
RAVI ZACHARIAS Without distractions we are able to concentrate better and fully on the goal before us.
SUNDAY ADELAJA The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over...
PAXTON HOOD The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over...
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over...
PAXTON HOOD The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote ove...
PAXTON HOOD As the grandson of Italian immigrants, maybe I am biased, but I think Christopher Columbus, the man ...
TOM TANCREDO If you want to reach a goal, you must 'see the reaching' in your own mind before you actuall...
ZIG ZIGLAR You can accomplish His will, without stopping midway, and even though you may face obstacles, you wi...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Progressive’ means that success is a journey, not a destination. It’s an ongoing process. We nev...
SHIV KHERA We travel through time as through a country filled with many wild and empty wastes, which we would f...
JOSEPH ADDISON You have to set the time frame for accomplishing your goal. If you don’t, it may take forever to r...
ANNA SZABO, JD, MBA One must laugh before one is happy, or one may die without ever laughing at all.
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JOHN WATERS Prior preparation is Success divided by half. Once you have fully prepared, every hand glove that ob...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Sometimes we find ourselves distracted from our central goal by other desires. We get overwhelmed by...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA When all the distractions and diversions have been made, at the end of it all we're about one mighty...
HENRY HYDE That may or may not further your goal.
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HENRY DAVID THOREAU I consider a goal as a journey rather than a destination. And each year I set a new goal.
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HEATHER K. O'HARA When you establish a destination by defining what you want, then take physical action by making choi...
STEVE MARABOLI I?m looking at probably either Columbus, Ohio, possibly Richmond Virginia, or Baltimore or laurel, M...
DARYL WOLFE We may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, look...
A.A. MILNE Obstacles may retard, but they cannot long prevent the progress of a movement sanctioned by its just...
JEFFERSON DAVIS Our goal would be that all existing agricultural land, accurately and honestly defined, is mitigated...
BRIAN SCHMIDT When (Christopher) travels to the Balkans late next week and into the following week, he'll be makin...
NICHOLAS BURNS If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will...
MAURICE CHEVALIER Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE If you want to achieve your goal, keep your head up, eyes open, never stop moving and destroy all ob...
KISHAN S CHAUHAN Distracted by all sorts of distractions, it wanders around aimlessly in the ten directions.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Even though we may have come from different backgrounds & are of different races,all mortals have a ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I look forward to the invention of faster-than-light travel. What I'm not looking forward to is the ...
MARC BELAND Destination is totally yours,you decide what it should be and none can change it.
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CHRISTOPHER NOLAN Accurst be he that first invented war.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Confess and be hanged.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Our swords shall play the orators for us.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE I'm armed with more than complete steel, - The justice of my quarrel.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE What feeds me destroys me.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE All places are alike, and every earth is fit for burial.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE There is no sin but ignorance.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Goodness is beauty in the best estate.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE Above our life we love a steadfast friend.
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
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CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS All true meaning resides in the personal relationship to a phenomenon, what it means to you.
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS Happiness is only real when shared.
CHRISTOPHER MCCANDLESS I now walk into the wild.
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CHRISTOPHER RICKS Only the sinner has a right to preach.
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CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No man is lonely while eating spaghetti. It requires so much attention.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to live your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There are three ingredients in the good life: yearning, learning, and earning.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as much as the dog does.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every tele...
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY There is only one success-to be able to spend your life in your own way.
CHRISTOPHER MORLEY The fragility of love is what is most at stake here—humanity's most crucial three-word avowal is o...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....
CHRISTOPHER MOORE I think I have a very good idea why it is that anti-Semitism is so tenacious and so protean and so e...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS If you think anyone is sane you just don't know enough about them.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE One notorious apikoros named Hiwa al-Balkhi, writing in ninth-century Persia, offered two hun...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Because you can't argue with all the fools in the world. It's easier to let them have their way, the...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI What is it you most dislike? Stupidity, especially in its nastiest forms of racism and supers...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On ever...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS To terrify children with the image of hell, to consider women an inferior creation—is that good fo...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affec...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Relationships are mysterious. We doubt the positive qualities in others, seldom the negative. You wi...
CHRISTOPHER PIKE Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS The opposite of love is not hate. It is indifference.
CHRISTOPHER PIKE If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shal...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Without fear there cannot be courage.
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Keep in mind that many people have died for their beliefs; it's actually quite common. The real cour...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Children see magic because they look for it.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE Saphira waved her tail, the tip whistling loudly. "I'm not asking you to. However, if we attack firs...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI Have I ever told you how glad I am we're not enemies? Eragon asked.
No, but it's very...
CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI But now isn’t simply now. Now is also a cold reminder: one whole day later than yesterday, one yea...
CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD