Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
But in the great hour Heaven sent the German people a great man, Herr von Cuno. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“If the measure of a man was the size of his hat, these were great men indeed.” — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Visionary people are visionary partly because of the very great many things they don't see. — Berkeley Rice 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
Ah woe is me, through all my daysWisdom and wealth I both have got,And fame and name and great men's praise;But Love,… — Henry Cuyler Bunner Copy Share Image
I had some great mentors as I was coming up and starting to sing so early - I've been singing since I… — Gladys Knight 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
There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of… — Bertrand Russell 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
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
“And yet the quality of the life is good. All human potentialities are in it. Given proper conditions, it could live through… — Jack London Copy Share Image
... most people are dead, and none of them seem to mind it. One hears a great many complaints about life, doesn't… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
I want to become more and more like Jesus my Lord, my Saviour. And the way we do that is through discipleship.… — Kong Hee Copy Share Image
“The pursuit of goodness leads to greatness, but the pursuit of greatness, whether by a man or a nation, leads to ruin….… — John Kramer Copy Share Image
To consider powerful souls as if they were a useful public resource is quite foreign to our customs. In a small sense… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Henry Kissinger is possessed of a truly superior intelligence, in addition to which he has two qualities which, unfortunately, many great men… — Mohammed Reza Pahlavi Copy Share Image
The Dalai Lama once said that 'If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change!' This is… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
“[E]very man hath liberty to write, but few ability. Heretofore learning was graced by judicious scholars, but now noble sciences are vilified… — Robert Burton Copy Share Image
God is angry with man. Unless we believe and repent we shall all be damned. It is impossible, indeed, for its advocates… — Leslie Stephen Copy Share Image
“The first week of school they spotted him using a tortoise-shell cigarette holder. When he'd overheard some of the boys whispering that… — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
“The bond between book reader and book writer has always been a tightly symbiotic one, a means of intellectual and artistic cross-fertilization.… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
If there's a big problem and you've got the right people with you, usually the answer emerges and you do what's the… — Larry Brilliant Copy Share Image
Success has always been the greatest liar - and the "work" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
I give thank for God for my roots in the Word of Faith teachings. It is truly on the shoulders of great… — Joseph Prince Copy Share Image
“All these appeals to art to set herself more in harmony with modern progress and civilisation, and to make herself the mouthpiece… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
History is too much about wars; biography too much about great men. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
The great man presides over all his states of consciousness with obstinate rigor. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Don't be afraid to borrow. The great men, the most original, borrowed from everybody. — John French Sloan Copy Share Image
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