He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements. — Abraham Myerson Copy Share Image
But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire… The greater the genius, the keener the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues. — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against -… — Dinah Shore Copy Share Image
What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man. — John Adams Copy Share Image
I was lucky enough to have great mentors both in the culinary world and in the world of chefs who became celebrities.… — Michael Symon Copy Share Image
The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths—the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
A great many things have been pronounced untrue and absurd, and even impossible, by the highest authorities in the age in which… — Catherine Crowe Copy Share Image
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly… — Booker T. Washington Copy Share Image
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
Many women I know think the ideal of happiness is to be in love with a great man, or to be the… — Ada Leverson Copy Share Image
“Lee believed in the value of emulation, of learning from great men. As a soldier, he was a student of Napoleon. As… — H.W. Crocker III Copy Share Image
“Dodrupchen writes: Whenever problems come to us from beings or inanimate objects, if our mind gets used to perceiving only the suffering… — Tulku Thondup Copy Share Image
I grab Sarah’s hand. “You are more than that. I need you here with me. You’re pretty much the only thing keeping… — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
“For who could better describe the eye than God, Who made it? But as it is clearer than the day that God… — Georg Joachim Rheticus Copy Share Image
“A man that is of Copernicus ’ Opinion, that this Earth of ours is a Planet, carry’d round and enlightn’d by the… — Christiaan Huygens Copy Share Image
The crisis [the Great Depression] discovered a great man in Franklin Roosevelt...None too soon he has carried America forward to the second… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
“What is personal death? Asking this question and pausing to look inward - isn't personal death a concept? Isn't there a thought-and-picture… — Toni Packer Copy Share Image
“It is already the fashion to diminish Eliot by calling him derivative, the mouthpiece of Pound, and so forth; and yet if… — Frank Kermode Copy Share Image
“Death paused, his hand on the spine of the book. And why do you think I directed you to the stables? think… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single. — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
It is to their crimes that most great men are indebted for their gardens, their tables, their fine old plate - their… — Latin Proverb Copy Share Image
In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in… — Catharine MacKinnon Copy Share Image
One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Great men help dazzle the people; after that, they dazzle themselves even more dangerously. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Copy Share Image
Pride is at the bottom of a great many errors and corruptions, and even of many evil practices, which have a great… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
Genius is the union of man and God in the acts of the soul. Great men are always greater than their deeds.… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
There is no philosopher in the world so great but he believes a million things on the faith of other people and… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I look up to Snoop and DMX a lot¦ professionally, I like Puff [P. Diddy] a lot; I like how he manages… — Bow Wow Copy Share Image
Publishing companies and a great many authors have missed the opportunity to capitalize on the very real relationships they create with their… — Vantile Whitfield Copy Share Image
Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man. — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I listen a lot to how people speak. I've read a great many good books in my life. I had some excellent… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image