When I was at Manchester, where there was a modern swimming pool, I was looked on as a great man, not for… — Louis J. Mordell Copy Share Image
All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases,… — Peter Lynch Copy Share Image
The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare. — Robert Morse Copy Share Image
The question of religion was a matter for each individual's conscience, and in a great many cases was the outcome of birth… — James Larkin Copy Share Image
When a great man has become petrified, and everyone begins to proclaim his greatness, he has already turned into a puppet. — Lu Xun Copy Share Image
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
a great man always knows better than to explain unless an explanation is demanded. To rush into explanations and excuses is always… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish… — Sam Manekshaw Copy Share Image
“It's not easy is it? Being a great man's son. You'd thought that would come with all kinds of advantages - with… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds;… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“Emma has been meaning to read more ever since she was twelve years old. I have seen a great many lists of… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“A tender smile softened his face. "That would be Esme. She's nine and a delight. I haven't seen much of her these… — Tracy Anne Warren Copy Share Image
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Happy anniversary Mom and Dad. Even through those occasional times when we didn't get along, I could still that tell your love… — Jin Copy Share Image
Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“These days, there seems to be nowhere left to explore. Victims of their very success, the explorers now, pretty much, stay home.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The search for better, for more competent men, from the presidents of our great companies down to our household servants, was never… — Frederick Winslow Taylor Copy Share Image
“It was a good thing she was wearing her mother's pearls. With those clasping her neck, she felt as if she could… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
“... nothing is easier than to distance ourselves from great figures, whether through a negative interpretation or through idealization. Denigration and idealization… — Myron Sharaf Copy Share Image
“I've been surprised by how many of you actually seem to believe that what you have is perfection. [...] A great many… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Regarding Ronald Reagan: In point of fact, the image of Ronald Reagan, the man responsible for shaping that decade (the 1980s), should… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,--once skilfully determined, the battle is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A lady once expressed herself in society - the very words show that they were uttered with fervour and under the pressure… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena… — Bill James Copy Share Image
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last… — Bjorn Borg Copy Share Image
Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite… — Peter Brimelow Copy Share Image
If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“It was a glorious supper. There was kippered salmon, and Finnan haddocks, and a lamb's head, and a haggis—a celebrated Scotch dish,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys… — Bess Streeter Aldrich Copy Share Image
I'm astonished at how readily a great many people I know, young people, have accepted a reduced economic prospect and limited freedoms… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
“would have found you earlier, before whatever happened that filled you with this rage. I would not have raised you to be… — Pierce Brown Copy Share Image
The Israelis are becoming increasingly like the white supremacist South Africans, viewing the Palestinians as a lower form of life, not hesitating… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
A great chess-player is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. No act terminating in itself… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when… — Theodor Herzl Copy Share Image
“...what has mattered are the moments of exposure to every life, when habit is no longer enough, and choices have to be… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity —… — Robert Ingersoll Copy Share Image
One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image