I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are… — Bernard Baruch Copy Share Image
I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it's a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that… — Hugh Shelton Copy Share Image
A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of… — Joseph Rickaby Copy Share Image
We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day… — Henry Mintzberg Copy Share Image
The big man in a small village is the big ship in a small lake! Let him sail to the vast oceans! — Mehmet Murat Ildan 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 taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man. — John Adams 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
“When he overheard the boys whispering that he was a queer, he said he regarded that as a compliment since so many… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
Oh, I've discarded a great many [poems]. And occasionally I've discarded and then resurrected. I would find a crumpled yellow ball of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
History, in [Nietzsche's] view, belongs to him who is fighting a great fight, and who needs examples, teachers and comforters, but cannot… — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Our society is so caught up in winning, we forget that most of the great men and women in history have, at… — Carleton Young Copy Share Image
Long hair, short skirts, the girls like this image and try to make money with it. What they wear, how they behave,… — Laura Davies Copy Share Image
Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
A great man, who was convinced that the truths of political and moral science are capable of the same certainty as those… — Nicolas de Caritat, marquis de Condorcet Copy Share Image
To say that there is a case for heroes is not to say that there is a case for hero worship. The… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Words contain enormous power. They are full of energy. They can inspire and create. They can also depress and destroy. It depends… — K S Venkataraman Copy Share Image
The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man. He… — Louis Farrakhan Copy Share Image
I think that what's happening today, with all the young poets rushing from one college to another, lecturing at the drop of… — Conrad Aiken Copy Share Image
I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“What is a great love of books? It is something like a personal introduction to the great and good men of all… — John Bright Copy Share Image
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end...liberty is the only object which… — Lord Acton 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 to their crimes that most great men are indebted for their gardens, their tables, their fine old plate - their… — Latin Proverb 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
Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements. — Abraham Myerson 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
I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today. Why should unmarried women be discriminated against -… — Dinah Shore Copy Share Image
What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a… — Vince Gilligan Copy Share Image
A great many college graduates come here thinking of lawyers as social engineers arguing the great Constitutional issues. — Archibald Cox Copy Share Image
But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire… The greater the genius, the keener the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The more you're at Alabama, you grow as a person and as a player learning from great coaches and great men and… — Derrick Henry Copy Share Image
Who is the great man? He who is strongest in patience. He who patiently endures injury, and maintains a blameless life--he is… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Whosoever does not know how to recognize the faults of great men is incapable of estimating their perfections. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I had great mentors in my parents who always sought to understand the world around them. And they would push me to… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
Men worship the shows of great men; the most disbelieve that there is any reality of great men to worship. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
![“Oh, I've discarded a great many [poems]. And occasionally I've discarded and then resurrected. I would find a crumpled yellow ball of paper in the wastebasket, in the morning, and open it to see what the hell I'd been up to; and occasionally it was something that needed only a very slight change…” quote by Conrad Aiken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/333/conrad-aiken-9766_balls_oh-i-ve-discarded-a-great-many-poems-and_2787753.jpg)
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