When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety? — John Adams Copy Share Image
Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead, The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust? — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
Behind every great man is not a woman, she is beside him, she is with him, not behind him — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Of course, people will laugh at you, but people laugh at a great many things so there is no need to take… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“I agree that every saint has a past, but not that every sinner has a future. In this life we see a… — Criss Jami 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
There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of… — James Weldon Johnson 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
“It is a great man that can treat his earthenware as if it was silver, and a man who treats his silver… — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
There live a great man named Joe who was belittled by a loudmouth foe. While his rival would taunt and tease Joe… — Muhammad Ali 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
“A lot of what people did and said when they "predicted" things, Morey now realized, was phony: pretending to know things rather… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
“I have wondered,” he said, so low I could scarcely hear him. “Wondered often, if I could call that edge to my… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I take it, then, Vijay, you are still a virgin?'Yes, and I find it extremely galling. When Gandhi was my age he… — C.D. Payne Copy Share Image
He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him,… — Margaret Truman Daniel Copy Share Image
I went to graduate school as a lieutenant colonel after I had been in the army for 12 or 13 years. I… — Colin Powell Copy Share Image
Throughout history, people in all cultures and lands have gathered together at mealtimes. In forests and mountains, in humble abodes and great… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
We live in a much more complicated time than when Superman was created 75 years ago. Or even when Superman The Movie… — Charles Roven Copy Share Image
“A state of shock is produced when a story is ruptured… Trump is not a rupture at all, but rather the culmination… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Despite this documentation for both traumatic amnesia and essentially accurate delayed recall, memory science is often presented as if it supports the… — Jennifer J. Freyd Copy Share Image
Happy anniversary Mom and Dad. Even through those occasional times when we didn't get along, I could still that tell your love… — Jin Copy Share Image
“These days, there seems to be nowhere left to explore. Victims of their very success, the explorers now, pretty much, stay home.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
“The search for better, for more competent men, from the presidents of our great companies down to our household servants, was never… — Frederick Winslow Taylor Copy Share Image
“It was a good thing she was wearing her mother's pearls. With those clasping her neck, she felt as if she could… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
A great many of us must move from words to acts - from words of dissent to acts of disobedience. — Barbara Deming Copy Share Image
Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are a great many people who are in favor of conservation no matter what it means. — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
When this is over, I'm not going to be the same guy. I'm going to live as if I were a great… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
A great man knows he is not God, and the greater he is the better he knows it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
They say behind every great man is a great woman, but I think it works the other way round as well. — Debra Stephenson Copy Share Image
Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image