Great men are usually the products of their times and one of the men developed by these times takes rank with the… — John Moody Copy Share Image
“Lee believed in the value of emulation, of learning from great men. As a soldier, he was a student of Napoleon. As… — H.W. Crocker III Copy Share Image
The thinking of creative and successful men is never exerted in any direction other than that intended. That is why great men… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
There are a great many opinions in this world, and a good half of them are professed by people who have never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs… — Cleveland Abbe Copy Share Image
In the popular arena, one can tell ... that the average man ... imagines that an industrious acquisition of particulars will render… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
One of the less dismaying aspects of race relations in the United States is that their improvement is not a matter of… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
A great man's manias must be respected, because the time required to combat them is too precious to waste. — Andre Maurois Copy Share Image
Beware of charisma . . . Representative Men; was Ralph Waldo Emerson's 1850 phrase for the great men in a democracy .… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I can't quite define my aversion to asking questions of strangers. From snatches of family battles which I have heard drifting up… — Robert Benchley Copy Share Image
Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Hence the sterile, uninspiring futility of a great many theoretical discussions of ethics, and the resentment which many people feel towards such… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
People who accomplish a great many things are people who have freed themselves from biases. These are the creative people. — Milton H. Erickson 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 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
If you read the life of great men and women who made important changes in history, there are two common features: One,… — Leymah Gbowee Copy Share Image
I think having a great range of experiences in my life had helped me as a writer, particularly a writer of fiction.… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
A great many film stars perched on unstable ravine edges in the canyon systems of Los Angeles will, like the cemeteries there,… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
