A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history. — William Halsey Copy Share Image
First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do. — Vito Fossella 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
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
Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust? — Conrad Aiken 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
“I maintain that all great men or even men a little out of the common, that is to say capable of giving… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows… — Laozi 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
Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the… — John Ruskin 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
What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“PERFECT VIRTUE PRODUCES NOTHING, because it needs nothing. Production comes out of desire, production comes because you are imperfect. You create something… — Osho Copy Share Image
God is one among several hypotheses to account for the phenomena of human destiny, and it is now proving to be an… — Julian Huxley Copy Share Image
We are here to become great men and women, and with that purpose in view, we must eliminate everything in our religion… — Christian D. Larson Copy Share Image
“Great men speak secrets about themselves with nods and gestures, walking away from jokes about women rather than condemn the jokester; if… — Lee Goff Copy Share Image
There are some simple maxims which I think might be commended to writers of expository prose. First: never use a long word… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Existential envy which is directed against the other person’s very nature, is the strongest source of ressentiment. It is as if it… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
There was something formless and perfect before the universe was born. It is serene. Empty. Solitary. Unchanging. Infinite. Eternally present. It is… — Laozi 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
“This generation does not understand the wealth of time. No wonder there are only a few superstars and great men emerging from… — Sunday Adelaja 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
I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great… — James A. Michener 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
Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit. — Victor Hugo 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
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
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was surrounded by many great men in my life. I watched them and learned, taking it in like a… — Greg Vaughan Copy Share Image
“The origins of great companies inevitably start with the ideas and enterprise of great men.” — Bill Scott 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
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image