A great man represents a great ganglion in the nerves of society, or to vary the figure, a strategic point in the… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
I find any great man, black or white, I'm going to study him, learn him so he can't be great to me… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
I have been fortunate to work under some great managers and I knew I could benefit from that education. I went round… — Chris Sutton Copy Share Image
“there is one quality that sets truly great managers apart from the rest: They discover what is unique about each person and… — Harvard Business Review Copy Share Image
More than four thousand programs produced and consumed. Some of them were pretty good, a great many of them were forgettable; but… — Ted Koppel Copy Share Image
These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
So when a great man dies For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of… — Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Copy Share Image
In like manner the effect of every action is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds. The great… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Divinity is great enough to be divine; it is great enough to call itself divine. But as humanity grows greater, it grows… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper.… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear. It is impossible for an… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
“A great many people, he had noticed, spent large parts of their time worrying about things they were powerless to alter. Had… — Setterfield Diane Copy Share Image
On how the motion of a planet defines its sphere: ... and thus it comes about gradually by the linking and accumulation… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
“I think there is only one form of greatness for man. If a man can bridge the gap between life and death.… — James Dean Copy Share Image
Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting… — William James 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
“Here’s how you practice shrieking like an insane woman who has been locked in an attic for a great many years: You… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
“Everyone in Washington’s a lawyer, dear.” He winked and turned toward the stairs that led up to his room, knowing that no… — Tim Tigner Copy Share Image
“The Skin Horse had lived longer in the nursery than any of the others. He was so old that his brown coat… — Margery Williams Bianco Copy Share Image
Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“The effects of the division of labour, in the general business of society, will be more easily understood by considering in what… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“Show me a man who over-elaborates and I will show you a great man! What is called their 'overelaboration' is my meat:… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“ Joseph Stalin was a great man; few other men of the 20th century approach his stature. He was simple, calm and… — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
“Italy, all the same, had spoiled a great many people; he was even fatuous enough to believe at times that he himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A great many men are kept out of the kingdom of God because they are looking for somebody else’s experience—the experience their… — Dwight Lyman Moody Copy Share Image
It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
“Someone said to me recently that a great man is not measured by the strength of his privilege, but by the depth… — Katharine Ashe Copy Share Image
When you're talkin' about a great man, you're not talking more than one person. It's not about how many people are followin'… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
“He has come to be the great man he thought he wanted to be. If this is true, then he is not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
My dad was a great man, and I loved him, but he had some demons he fought. It was tough to see… — Dabo Swinney Copy Share Image
Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
There is evidence that acupuncture influences the production of and distribution of a great many neurotransmitters and neuromodulators, and that this in… — David Eisenberg Copy Share Image
A great man reigns over himself with kindness and humor, and therefore never feels the pain of rejection. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a little nervous about saying anything about the artist, because it kind of sticks him right between the eyes, but he… — Edie Sedgwick Copy Share Image
The borrowing is often honest enough, and comes of magnanimity and stoutness. A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“He had a confused sense that she must have cost a great deal to make, that a great many dull and ugly… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
My Mum taught me great manners. And she always told me that you can be or do whatever in life, as long… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
