“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
Source: Forbidden Pleasure
“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.”
Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…
Bertie Ahern (1951) Irish politician, 10th Taoiseach of Ireland
At the Mahon Tribunal on 20 September 2007. Planning Tribunal Transcript http://www.planningtribunal.ie/images/SITECONTENT_738.pdf planningtribunal.ie. 2007-09-20.
Anne Bancroft (1931–2005) American actress
Interview on her role in the Broadway play "Two for the Seesaw". The New York Times (1958).
T. E. Lawrence (1888–1935) British archaeologist, military officer, and diplomat
Letter to Eric Kennington (6 May 1935)
Ellen Schreiber (1967) American writer
Source: Royal Blood
“If things do go badly, will I wonder for the rest of my life what I might have done to help?”
Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon
Source: Take The Risk (2008), p. 20
“I know because I read. Might I suggest you try it?”
Libba Bray A Great and Terrible Beauty
Source: A Great and Terrible Beauty
“Someone might object, "But you do not express yourself like Cicero". What of it? I am not Cicero. But I think I express my own self.”
Non exprimis, aliquis inquit, Ciceronem. Quid tum? Non enim sum Cicero; me tamen, ut opinor, exprimo.
Poliziano (1454–1494) Italian writer
Epistolae 8, 16. Quoted in Literary Imitation in the Italian Renaissance (1995) by Martin L. McLaughlin, p. 203.