Each of us must work to become a hardheaded realist, or else we risk wasting our time and energy on pursuing impossible… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
There was a precarious balance during those crucial months between composition and decomposition - what the world gained and what a great… — David Maraniss Copy Share Image
Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money, — Greg Oden Copy Share Image
The one thing that all great cities have in common is that they are all different — Cate Blanchett Copy Share Image
There is no solitude more dreadful for a stranger, an isolated man, than a great city; so many thousands of men and… — Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste Copy Share Image
One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Around the corner I have a friend, in this great city that has no end. — Charles Hanson Towne Copy Share Image
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I think it's a great city. I think it's a fabulous city. But in my young juvenile days, I was an idiot,… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
In essence, the Mexica remained little more than a band of pirates, sallying forth from their great city to loot and plunder… — Eric Wolf Copy Share Image
I have traveled a fair amount, and I have visited some great cities. I love architecture and museums and castles and ruins… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
Havana is one of the great cities of the world, sublimely tawdry yet stubbornly graceful, like tarnished chrome - a city, as… — Jonathan Miles Copy Share Image
Time is a dream ... a destroying dream; It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas; It covers the face… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast,… — Bitsie Tulloch Copy Share Image
I bow my head to the victims of terrorism. I am highly impressed of the courage of New York residents. The great… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
This is the age of the apartment. Not only in the great cities, but in the smaller centers of civilization the apartment… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
What we have now is a communication ability. We have the ability to see working ideas that are going on in the… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
What can one say about a country where a museum of science in a great city can feature an exhibit in which… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Life, my dear Watson, is infinitely stranger than fiction; stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We could not… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Chicago is a beautiful city. It's one of those places that people around the world see and say, 'Maybe one day.' There's… — Dwyane Wade Copy Share Image
I'm going to show you the real New York - witty, smart, and international - like any metropolis. Tell me this: where… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
Some remain great cities, but they shouldn't stand still. They should move in the direction of a knowledge-oriented society. Most cities have… — Charles Landry Copy Share Image
From the days of Spartacus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing.… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
To be in Boston, which is a great city and which is full of many colleges and young kids, and to be… — John Petrucci Copy Share Image
In great cities men are more callous both to the happiness and the misery of others, than in the country; for they… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
All urbanization, pushed beyond a certain point, automatically becomes suburbanization… Every great city is just a collection of suburbs. Its inhabitantsdo not… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
A man who lives with nature is used to violence and is companionable with death. There is more violence in an English… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
That is what is so marvelous about Europe; the people long ago learned that space and beauty and quiet refuges in a… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
They who have already enjoyed the crowds and noise of the great city, know their desire to return is little more than… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There is such a difference between the pursuits of men in great cities that one part of the inhabitants lives to little… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
We're proud of the work we're doing to make Chicago a great city for people of all ages. Nothing's more important than… — Rahm Emanuel Copy Share Image
