Great men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of… — John Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“There are a great many ways in which, the church, by its insistence upon what it chooses to call morality, inflicts upon… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It's a little hard for me to stand behind the walls of the great mansion and play rock and roll star. I… — Jon Bon Jovi Copy Share Image
“Someone said to me recently that a great man is not measured by the strength of his privilege, but by the depth… — Katharine Ashe Copy Share Image
When you're talkin' about a great man, you're not talking more than one person. It's not about how many people are followin'… — Wyclef Jean Copy Share Image
“He has come to be the great man he thought he wanted to be. If this is true, then he is not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must,… — Ayn Rand 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
Pushing for excellence is a fight. You have to fight to hire the right employees, fight to get the supplies you need,… — Jon Taffer 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
“Women rule each other. They say that behind every great man there's a great woman, and that may well be right, but… — Lucy V. Morgan 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
In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
You are the most dangerous kind of female the world can ever know. You carry the seeds for your own destruction and… — Anonymous 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
Did you ever stop to think that a great man in life who has won great acclaim and great reputation is the… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
“We sing and have done so constantly, "We thank Thee, O God, for a Prophet to guide us in these latter days."… — Heber J. Grant Copy Share Image
But there are people who take salt with their coffee. They say it gives a tang, a savour, which is peculiar and… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“For a long time," he said at last, "when I was small, I pretended to myself that I was the bastard of… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“Henry VIII, for example, who was king of England from 1509 to 1547, ended his days surrounded by a great many young… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Our society assigns us a tiny number of roles: We're producers of one thing at work, consumers of a great many things… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“He was a good man... No. He was a great man. A maester of the Citadel, chained and sworn, and Sworn Brother… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“You should know, Bree--I don't regret it. In spite of everything, I don't regret it. You'll know something now, of how lonely… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed… — Peter Straub Copy Share Image
So when a great man dies For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of… — Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi Copy Share Image
Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy. — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of… — Ben Shahn Copy Share Image
“Italy, all the same, had spoiled a great many people; he was even fatuous enough to believe at times that he himself… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A great many men are kept out of the kingdom of God because they are looking for somebody else’s experience—the experience their… — Dwight Lyman Moody Copy Share Image
Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
It's critical to have a sound foundation in free-market economics and the Constitution. A great many Republicans in Washington don't have that… — Ted Cruz Copy Share Image
Yes, he [Mahatma Gandhi] was a great man. However...between me and Gandhi there was never the understanding there was between me and… — Indira Gandhi Copy Share Image
While there are a great many agents in nature which boost libido and enhance sexual function, chocolate alone actually promotes the brain… — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
Our Grub-street biographers watch for the death of a great man like so many undertakers on purpose to make a penny of… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness… — Harpo Marx Copy Share Image
The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word. — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
The great man does not think beforehand of his words that they may be sincere, nor of his actions that they may… — Mencius Copy Share Image
The courage of a great many men, and the virtue of a great many women, are the effect of vanity, shame, and… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
You wouldn't show up to a great job with a terrible resume, so don't show up to a great man with a… — Behdad Sami Copy Share Image