Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that… — Yousuf Karsh Copy Share Image
You have heard me say, a great many times, that there is not that man or woman in this Church, and there… — Brigham Young Copy Share Image
The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One,… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
We have lots of other problems with plastic in our oceans. There are five different big gyres of plastic out in the… — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image
It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can… — George Eliot 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… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on… — Edward Bernays Copy Share Image
“I assume that in great men whose names I dare not mention, the anarchic element was very powerful. You see, when fundamental… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
“It is in Keats that the artistic spirit of this century first found its absolute incarnation. And these pre-Raphaelites, what were they?… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
All other great men are valued for their lives; He, above all, for His death, around which mercy and truth, righteousness and… — Edward Thomson Copy Share Image
Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
There is a strange kind of human being in whom there is an eternal struggle between body and soul, animal and god,… — Alfred Einstein Copy Share Image
Most great men and women are not perfectly rounded in their personalities, but are instead people whose one driving enthusiasm is so… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
Believe me, the so-called primitive races who worshipped animals as gods were not so daft as people choose to pretend. At least… — T. H. White Copy Share Image
In my twisted brain, I truly believe that nobody ever really dies, as long as the people that he or she touched… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
The lessons of great men and women are lost unless they reinforce upon our minds the highest demands which we make upon… — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
“A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else,… — Georges F. Doriot Copy Share Image
An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I don't believe in stereotypes, I prefer to hate people on a more personal basis. The measure of a truly great man… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
“To step outside of patriarchal thought means overcoming the deep-seated resistance within ourselves toward accepting ourselves and our knowledge as valid. It… — Trista Hendren Copy Share Image
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
Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to… — James Loeb Copy Share Image
“The people told me, however, that the big ear was not only a man, but a great man, a genius. But I… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I think Steve Wynn, who was like my mentor and a second father, has been a great inspiration. He's a great mentor… — Bobby Kotick Copy Share Image
Don't just sit there and worry. Be proactive. Do something - anything - about what's worrying you so you can gain information,… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I was still more concerned (a preference which you may be far from resenting) to strike a blow for Epicurus, that great… — Lucian Copy Share Image
beware the Lure of a handsome Face, the all too ready Assumption that the lovely Façade must needs have lovely Chambers within;… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Still, my determination to put your moral strength of purpose to the test is such that I propose to give even you… — Seneca Copy Share Image
To some it may seem old-fashioned to speak of virtue and chastity, honesty, morality, faith, character, but these are the qualities which… — Harold B. Lee Copy Share Image
A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the… — George Stillman Hillard Copy Share Image
