A great many persons are able to become Members of this House without losing their insignificance. — Beverley Baxter Copy Share Image
A great man may be the personification and type of the epoch for which God destines him, but he is never its… — Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigne Copy Share Image
The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their… — Joseph Murphy Copy Share Image
I would not have had anything to eat if it wasn't for the stuff the audience threw at me. — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
Moderation is represented as a virtue in order to restrain the ambition of great men, and to console those of a meaner… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
You might believe a good man easily, a great man with pleasure. -Bonum virum facile crederes, magnum libenter — Tacitus Copy Share Image
I firmly believe a great many prayers are not answered because we are not willing to forgive someone. — Dwight L. Moody Copy Share Image
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men. — Thomas Carlyle 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
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
Who knows what will happen or where I will be sent, yet already I have given a great many things away, expecting… — Mary Oliver 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
Though you may have known clever men who were indolent, you never knew a great man who was so; and when I… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to… — James Loeb 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
I think Steve Wynn, who was like my mentor and a second father, has been a great inspiration. He's a great mentor… — Bobby Kotick 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
The Four Keys of Great Managers: When selecting someone, they select for talent ... not simply experience, intelligence or determination. When setting… — Marcus Buckingham Copy Share Image
“If you read history you will find that the Christians begin the most for the present world are just the ones that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“We spend our lives fighting to get people very slightly more stupid than ourselves to accept truths that the great men have… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell… — Marvin Mudrick Copy Share Image
Israelis are wrong in not looking for a change in the relationship with the United States that would put it more in… — Michael Scheuer 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
He only is a great man who can neglect the applause of the multitude and enjoy himself independent of its favor. — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life? — Tommy Rettig Copy Share Image
Meaninglessnes s inhibits fullness of life and is therefore the equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable--perh aps everything. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
No good writer was ever long neglected; no great man overlooked by men equally great. Impatience is a proof of inferior strength,… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well… — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Without a great man writing and directing for me, I realised I was a mediocre movie star at best. — Diane Keaton Copy Share Image
“I said that great men had a sense of history. But when you say you have a great sense of history it… — Teodoro A. Agoncillo Copy Share Image
The possession of a great many things, even the best of things, tends to blind one to the real value of anything. — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in… — Stephen Birmingham Copy Share Image
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are… — Mencius Copy Share Image
