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My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.
Winston Churchill

Wife, Able, Ability

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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
Carl Friedrich Gauss

Life, Before, Spring

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.
Winston Churchill

Sorry, Cannot, Poor

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
Carl Jung

Gratitude, Human, Feelings

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Great, Respect, Nothing

At Microsoft there are lots of brilliant ideas but the image is that they all come from the top - I'm afraid that's not quite right.
Bill Gates

Afraid, Ideas, Quite

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love.
Lucinda Franks

Love, Men, Christmas

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
Michael Jackson

Love, Music, Great

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
Alfred Adler

God, Human, Single

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.
Salvador Dali

True, Real, Same

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
Richard Bach

Fire, Lives, Perfection

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.
J. Donald Walters

Happiness, Happy, Struggle

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
E. O. Wilson

Great, Blessed, Debt

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
Thomas Sowell

War, Kids, Present

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Good, Person, Win

It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced than here on earth. It's an interesting place to be. I recommend it.
Neil Armstrong

Place, Here, Earth

As brilliant an individual that Michael Jordan was, he was not successful until he got with a good team unit.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Good, Successful, Team

Even before I went to the UN, I often would want to say something in a meeting - only woman at the table - and I'd think, 'OK well, I don't think I'll say that. It may sound stupid.' And then some man says it, and everybody thinks it's completely brilliant, and you are so mad at yourself for not saying something.
Madeleine Albright

Stupid, Yourself, Woman

Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.
Chris Martin

Good, Best, Looking

Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
Paul Cezanne

Two, Light, Less

To me, as long as we've known each other, I've always thought Mick's most brilliant thing was that he could work in an area two foot square and give a very exciting performance.
Keith Richards

Work, Long, Give

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
Boris Yeltsin

Great, Live, End

The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian.
Billy Wilder

German, Beethoven, Austrian

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.
Lee Iacocca

Ideas, Won, Anywhere

But, I've always loved John Mayer and I think T-Pain is brilliant.
Taylor Swift

Loved, John, Mayer

To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Max Beerbohm

Give, Far, Less

My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
Daniel Radcliffe

I like the dueling club scene, where Daniel and I fight with our wands. I thought it was a brilliant scene to shoot. I think the end product looked really good.
Tom Felton

Good, End, Fight

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.
Ron Chernow

System, Plans, Fathers

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.
Thucydides

Men, Expect, Ordinary

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