Mission Accomplished

Famous quotes containing the words mission and/or accomplished:

    “Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.”
    —Umberto Eco (b. 1932)

    “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)