It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the G.N.P.… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“Here is the lesson: Great men and women of God are not exempt from hurt and offense. Instead, enduring the wounds of… — Stephen Mansfield Copy Share Image
It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The really great man is often considered selfish by a large group of people who are connected with him and who feel… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of… — Bob Hoover Copy Share Image
“The people told me, however, that the big ear was not only a man, but a great man, a genius. But I… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Especially like right now, I'm not shooting a show so you get to act. You get to do that stuff, kind of… — Aaron Tveit Copy Share Image
“Darwin, with his Origin of Species, his theories about Natural Selection, the Survival of the Fittest, and the influence of environment, shed… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have… — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements.… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
He read biographies of great men from their ideal values can not become great; — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
I am ready to talk today. I have been in a great many councils, but I am no wiser. We are all… — Chief Joseph 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
Great men too often have greater faults than little men can find room for. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
“The Mother of God is asked to 'pray zealously to her Son and her God,' and the words of the psalm are… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“It behoves us always to remember that in physics it has taken great men to discover simple things. . . . How far even then… — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
Here is Theodore Roosevelt with all his faults and with all his strengths—the devoted family man, the passionate game hunter, the astute… — David Herbert Donald Copy Share Image
The true genius of a great manager is his or her ability to individualize. A great manager is one who understands how… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a… — Jane Addams 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
