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Quotes About Achieved

Tyranny, you understand, has been achieved thanks to universal suffrage! The scoundrel has carried out an authoritarian coup d'état by appealing to the ignorant mob! This is a warning to us about the democracy of tomorrow.
~ Umberto Eco
I was burning up with scorn for all of them – and I dreaded them too, because their lives were achieved and full beside my thwarted unfinished one
~ Tessa Hadley
The underlying logic was that increments in performance could be achieved only with proportional increments in resources—the same inherent logic guiding most companies' view of performance gains.
~ W. Chan Kim
Look, if the Situationists achieved what they wanted, they would be very unhappy and they would have to be Situationists all over again. It's a never-ending process.
~ John Lydon
You take fantasies, which for thousands of years belonged to the religious realm - overcoming death or our merging with the universe - and you suddenly start talking about them in a more technical perspective as something that can be achieved, not after you die with the help of supernatural beings, but in this very life with the help of technology.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
World" as thought through Heidegger's work would be the mutually achieved composite of meaning and matter; what is disclosed—that is, what presents itself to us through our doing, saying, and making—is disclosed as already fitted into material environments and holistic forms of significance.
~ Thomas Rickert
On the other hand, in ancient, and modern, tribal cultures, everything given is already known by everyone you know. Manhood, womanhood, your first trinket, your last rite. Back then, and over there, they expected happiness and therefore achieved that state.
~ Walter Mosley
In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.
~ Hannah Arendt
All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
~ Hans Kung
The party did not fall apart and Hitler did not shoot himself. Strasser might have achieved both these ends, which would have radically altered the course of history, but at the crucial moment he himself gave up.
~ William L. Shirer
I think we need to recognize that Americans are realistic, and they're not going to rally around a change they don't believe has any hope of being achieved. So you could either say, "Let's give up," or you can say, "What is the kind of change -- the kind of strategy -- that could actually have an effect?" And how do you convince America of that strategy? That's ultimately the challenge here.
~ lessig lawrence
As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved.
~ Lester B. Pearson
When our participation in a rite becomes perfect we think no more of ritual, but are engrossed by that about which the rite is performed; but afterwards we recognize that ritual was the sole method by which this concentration could be achieved.
~ lewis c s iii
Europe's} is a crisis of historical ideals facing up to the impossibility of their realization. (The US'} is the crisis of an achieved utopia, confronted with the problem of its duration and permanence.
~ Jean Baudrillard
We've done all the work that HRC wanted on the twin and the project has been completed. We were consistently up there with the top guys and that is what HRC wanted to prove.
~ Sete Gibernau
In 1997, the Labour government set out to strengthen funding for the arts - and achieved it.
~ Melvyn Bragg
T]here [is] no limit to what might not be achieved by an alliance between an imperial monarchy and revelations, if truly believed to be heaven-sent, of a prophet.
~ Tom Holland
I may be subjected to the criticism of being called 'scientistic' or a kind of blind believer in science who holds that science is able to solve absolutely all problems. Well, I certainly don't believe that, because I cannot conceive that a day will come when science will be complete and achieved.
~ Claude Levi-Strauss
Indeed I regard the enduring support which I have received over the years from all sections of the community in Ballymena as being more than sufficient recognition for any success which I may have achieved as an actor.
~ Liam Neeson
Whenever a film allows you to think and feel and take it beyond the moment, I think it's achieved something. And 'Funny Games' does that.
~ Naomi Watts
Engels suggested that "real human freedom" can be achieved only in a society that exists "in harmony with the laws of nature.
~ Unknown
Even if you overcome a tremendous challenge and feel the personal victory, it's simply not powerful enough. It may activate your left brain, which says, 'I have achieved,' but it will not activate your more social right brain, which desperately desires to say, 'Look, Ma, I did it!'
~ Brendon Burchard
My message to the Turkish people is never to view any military intervention positively because through military intervention, democracy cannot be achieved.
~ Fethullah Gulen
Therefore, for needs to be met and mutual satisfaction to be achieved in any marriage, one element must be present in both spouses—a servant spirit.
~ Jimmy Evans