Accomplished

Famous quotes containing the word accomplished:

“I’ve never read a political poem that’s accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.”
—Howard Nemerov (1920–1991)

“Hard times accounted in large part for the fact that the exposition was a financial disappointment in its first year, but Sally Rand and her fan dancers accomplished what applied science had failed to do, and the exposition closed in 1934 with a net profit, which was donated to participating cultural institutions, excluding Sally Rand.”
—For the State of Illinois, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

“Ingratitude is always a sign of weakness. I have never observed that accomplished people were ungrateful.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)