I owe a lot to coming through the White Sox organization and their belief in me. I had some great managers and… — Marcus Semien Copy Share Image
Mr. Lincoln was not only a great President, but a great man - too great to be small in anything. In his… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms. — Jean Tinguely Copy Share Image
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. — Henry James Copy Share Image
I saw a great many men die afterwards, some suffering horribly, but I do not recall any death that affected me quite… — Fritz Kreisler Copy Share Image
Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
“He was a good con man, but not a great con man. He wasn't ruthless enough. He had all the tricks, all… — Jeffrey Ford Copy Share Image
The one thing that Jessica [Johnson] and Miles[Morales] have in common is that there's a great many people in the audience who… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
Too few presidents have steeped themselves not just in Lincoln's words but his deeds, which is why Obama's acquaintance with the great… — Michael Beschloss Copy Share Image
We put pride into everything like salt. We like to see that our good works are known. If our virtues are seen,… — John Vianney Copy Share Image
“I'm lonely, Jeeves.' 'You have a great many friends,sir.' 'What's the good of friends?' 'Emerson,' I reminded him,'says a friend may well… — p g wodehouse Copy Share Image
When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself… — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image
“Mister God made everything, didn’t he?” There was no point in saying I didn’t really know. I said “Yes.” “Even the dirt… — Fynn Copy Share Image
“if they hadn’t both been pretending, but had had what is called a heart-to-heart talk, that is, simply told each other just… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“They saw her husband, this giant of a man in God’s Kingdom, this man, that for over fifteen years was their example… — Lee Goff Copy Share Image
“I don't know what your Company is feeling as of today about the work of Dr. Alice Hamilton on benzol [benzene] poisoning.… — Bradley Dewey Copy Share Image
I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
“I will keep the baby born on Friday,” the mom wept to the monk, “but I am giving the Saturday one to… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
“But in the midst of the freedom he had achieved Harry suddenly became aware that his freedom was a death and that… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“T. S. Eliot wrote almost a century ago about a phenomenon that he believed to be the product of the nineteenth century: “When… — Alan Jacobs Copy Share Image
I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my… — Don King Copy Share Image
I want to be like Khabib, you know. He's a great man, he's champion, he has a lot of money and he… — Islam Makhachev Copy Share Image
Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself. I can't stand it when our leader goes… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his… — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
People seem to have a great love for names. For to know a great many names seems to look like knowing a… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
A great man scarcely knows how he dines, how he dresses; but without railing or precision, his living is natural and poetic. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“History of the world is the biography of the great man. And I said: The great man always act like a thunder.… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Yes, Marines are down in jungle land and they did kill a man in a war, and a great many people did… — Earl Hancock Ellis Copy Share Image
For all its power as a protest medium, black Twitter serves a great many users as a virtual place to just hang… — Jenna Wortham Copy Share Image
A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in… — Stephen Birmingham Copy Share Image
In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
He struck a mighty blow for equality, freedom and the American way of life. Jackie Robinson was a good citizen, a great… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Every great man was thought to be insane before he changed the world. Some never changed the world. They were just insane. — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image