It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.
Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others - white and black - preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence.
Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.
For though Duncan was a mere mortal, flawed as well, he'd accomplished a daring feat. Aye, he'd captured an angel. And she belonged to him.
To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.
Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man. "
I want my word to be up to the scale of the feat of arms performed by the Russian soldier.
Everything I have done, every change I have made to that circus, every impossible feat and astounding sight, I have done for her.
I have to admit, that's a remarkable bruise. You should be proud; it's quite a feat to get injured in the manner you did and in that. . . particular. . . place.
Erasmus was the light of his century; others were its strength: he lighted the way; others knew how to walk on it while he himselfremained in the shadow as the source of light always does. But he who points the way into a new era is no less worthy of veneration than he who is the first to enter it; those who work invisibly have also accomplished a feat.
Moderation, the Golden Mean, the Aristonmetron, is the secret of wisdom and of happiness. But it does not mean embracing an unadventurous mediocrity; rather it is an elaborate balancing act, a feat of intellectual skill demanding constant vigilance. Its aim is a reconciliation of opposites.
It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
More than anything, being an English major made me more appreciative of authors and what an incredible feat it is to just finish a novel, let alone a really brilliant one.
We should be on our guard against the temptation to argue directly from skill to capacity, and to assume when a man displays skill in some feat, his capacity is therefore considerable.
