“My species has a great many good reasons for making war, though none of them is as good as the reason for… — Ursula K. Le Guin 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
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Behind every great woman is a man telling her she's ignoring him. Behind every great man is a puzzled woman. — Green Monk Copy Share Image
“Adam found his father out. It wasn’t that his father changed but that some new quality came to Adam. He had always… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
As one might expect in a society with mass communications and mass markets, the pseudo-ethic says that whatever is popular, is right.… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, ... deserves the title of genius as little as the man… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
A great man is a torch in the darkness, a beacon in superstition's night, an inspiration and a prophecy. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
The Cheshire Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Pablo Casals is a great musician in all he does: a cellist without equal, and extraordinary conductor and composer with something to… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
My dad was a great man, and I loved him, but he had some demons he fought. It was tough to see… — Dabo Swinney Copy Share Image
“Two large trials of antioxidants were set up after Peto’s paper (which rather gives the lie to nutritionists’ claims that vitamins are… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
A great man knows the value of greatness; he dares not hazard it, he will not squander it. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
“A great many of our patients have conflicts in the realm of intimacy, and obtain help in therapy sheerly through experiencing an… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
“Hundreds of pounds have I spent on nonsense for her. And I shall never see a penny of it. Put a stop… — Frances Hodgson Burnett 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
She laughed at him then, because he sounded like a small boy, not like a very large grown-up Beast with a voice… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I have said that one of the distinguishing characteristics of a great man is that his active intervention makes what seemed highly… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image