“Never bend your head. Hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.”
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Helen Keller156
American author and political activist 1880–1968Related quotes
Hans Rosling book Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Source: Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
“Now always be the best, my boy, the bravest,
and hold your head up high above the others.”
VI. 208 (tr. Robert Fagles).
Iliad (c. 750 BC)
“When somebody tells you you're different, smile and hold your head up high and be proud.”
Angelina Jolie (1975) American actress, film director, and screenwriter
“I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.”
Garrison Keillor (1942) American radio host and writer
As quoted in Precision Shooting : The Trapshooter's Bible (1998) by James Russell, p. 54
Variant: Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
“When lying to someone, look him straight in the eye.”
Mason Cooley (1927–2002) American academic
City Aphorisms, Ninth Selection (1992)
“Begot by butchers, but by bishops bred,
How high his Highness holds his haughty head!”
Thomas Wolsey (1473–1530) English political figure and cardinal
Attributed to Cardinal Wolsey in English Etymology; Or, a Derivative Dictionary of the English Language (1783) by George William Lemon, "Alliteration".
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