Achievement Quote by Brendan Behan Download Open image “To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.” — Brendan Behan ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Achievement Beer Cooking Culinary Drunk Enough Food Success Victory
Nothing I've achieved in my life has ever come about because of alcohol. — Garrett McNamara Copy Share Image
“I like the late Bernard Haldane's definition of an achievement. He says it is: something you yourself feel you have done well, that you also enjoyed doing and felt proud of. In other words you are looking for an accomplishment that gave you two pleasures: enjoyment while doing it, and satisfaction from the outcome. That doesn't mean you may not… — Richard Nelson Bolles Copy Share
That's what was wrong with drinking too much. You became immune to drunken delights. There was no solace in liquor. Before you got happy,… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
What does drunkenness not accomplish? It unlocks secrets, confirms our hopes, urges the indolent into battle, lifts the burden from anxious minds, teaches new… — Horace Copy Share Image
I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves. — Ross MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Getting drunk with success and sick with ambition only leads to one route; destruction!” — Olawale Daniel Copy Share Image
“Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
The virtue of achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this can never know defeat. — A.J. Cronin Copy Share Image
Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
“It's a queer world, God knows, but the best we have to be going on with.” — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
“I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for… — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
I saw a notice which said, 'Drink Canada Dry' and I've just started. — Brendan Behan Copy Share Image
You, of Canada, are building a magnificent record of achievement. My country rejoices in it. — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
One achieves true human dignity only when one serves. Only he is great who subjects himself to taking part in the achievement of a… — Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera Copy Share Image
Needs cause motivation. Deep-rooted desires for esteem, affection, belonging, achievement, self-actualization, power, and control motivate us to push for what we want and need… — Lorii Myers Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
It's tragic what America has become because there is a great segment of society that now resents luxury and success and achievement by others. — Robin Leach Copy Share Image
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not… — Nathaniel Branden Copy Share Image
Joel Lane documents a life we don’t quite live, in a city we can’t quite find: half glimpsed and half imagined, we know it’s… — Chaz Brenchley Copy Share Image
The main substantive achievement of neoliberalism has been to redistribute rather than to generate wealth and income. — David Harvey Copy Share Image
Every profession has an ideology and a drive for power that goes far beyond its achievements and it is the task of democracy to… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
We have Internet now and people are not stupid. But it seems that some people are trying to push the same agenda of the… — Bassem Youssef Copy Share Image
“If you find a way where there seems to be no way, that’s what we call miracle, not personal achievement.” — Nkwachukwu Ogbuagu Copy Share Image
