“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“A great man is doing you enough good when he isn't doing you harm.” — Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais Copy Share Image
“One hears a great many things, true, but can gather nothing definite.” — Franz Kafka 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
There are obviously a great many ways to organize some fraction of the material in a life. — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“Kishan is capable of a great many things, and girlfriend stealing is at the top of his list of skills.” — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
“Mary is roused to great anxiety by these rumors (but then, she is roused to great anxiety by a great many things).” — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles,… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is a great advantage to a President, and a major source of safety to the country, for him to know he… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Every great man has become great, every successful man has succeeded, in proportion as he has confined his powers to one particular… — Orison Swett Marden 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
If you make something, it's an artifact. It's something that somebody or some corporate entity has caused to come into being. A… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I think behind every great man there's got to be a great woman, whether she's your wife, your girlfriend or not. I'm… — Prince Royce Copy Share Image
About once a decade, it becomes necessary to remind Americans again that Ulysses S. Grant was a great man, indeed a giant… — Michael Korda 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
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
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 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
“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
“I don't know what your Company is feeling as of today about the work of Dr. Alice Hamilton on benzol [benzene] poisoning.… — Bradley Dewey Copy Share Image
“They saw her husband, this giant of a man in God’s Kingdom, this man, that for over fifteen years was their example… — Lee Goff Copy Share Image
“if they hadn’t both been pretending, but had had what is called a heart-to-heart talk, that is, simply told each other just… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“Mister God made everything, didn’t he?” There was no point in saying I didn’t really know. I said “Yes.” “Even the dirt… — Fynn Copy Share Image
How does one chip off the marble that doesn't belong? ... That comes about through five things: humility, reverence, inspiration, deep purpose,… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“Because you deserve a duke, damn it!” A troubled expression furrowed his brow. “You deserve a man who can give you the… — Sabrina Jeffries Copy Share Image
“I will keep the baby born on Friday,” the mom wept to the monk, “but I am giving the Saturday one to… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning Copy Share Image
My old boss Aidy Boothroyd is a great man and I've got no malice or anything toward him. — Adebayo Akinfenwa Copy Share Image
Racing is a great mania to which one must sacrifice everything, without reticence, without hesitation. — Enzo Ferrari Copy Share Image
That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects. — John Webster Copy Share Image
I remember playing against the great Manchester United teams when I was a player. — Graham Potter Copy Share Image