The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Faith takes a great many forms, suited to a variety of sensibilities, and mine happens to suit me very well. — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Great men of action... never mind on occasion being ridiculous; in a sense it is part of their job, and at times… — Oswald Mosley Copy Share Image
“The origins of great companies inevitably start with the ideas and enterprise of great men.” — Bill Scott Copy Share Image
Growing up, I was surrounded by many great men in my life. I watched them and learned, taking it in like a… — Greg Vaughan Copy Share Image
Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every great man is a unique. The Scipionism of Scipio is precisely that part he could not borrow. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I'm impressed with Ed Sheeran. I think he has a terrific point of view and a great mentality but I sense there… — Leo Sayer 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
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
“The great men and women of God I am using in the earth today, I am not using them because they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I count him a great man who inhabits a higher sphere of thought, into which other men rise with labor and difficulty;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on… — Edward Bernays 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
When some one sorrow, that is yet reparable, gets hold of your mind like a monomania,--when you think, because Heaven has denied… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“I assume that in great men whose names I dare not mention, the anarchic element was very powerful. You see, when fundamental… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
There is another important point: encountering the poor. If we step outside ourselves we find poverty. Today-it sickens the heart to say… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
I am not of the opinion generally entertained in this country [England], that man lives by Greek and Latin alone; that is,… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“The roiling, restless fog is like chaos before a storm, swirling streaks resembling wintry clouds. Serpents lurking there can spread its pestilence,… — Luo Guanzhong Copy Share Image
Other than my parents, no one had a bigger influence on my life than Coach Smith. He was more than a coach… — Michael Jordan Copy Share Image
Why should it happen that among the great many women whom I see and am fond of, suddenly somebody I meet for… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them. — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
A great many people fall in love with or feel attracted to a person who offers the least possibility of a harmonious… — Rudolf Dreikurs Copy Share Image
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The Church of England hasn't often produced great men in modern times. But I have long believed that George Bell, Bishop of… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men. — Thomas Fuller Copy Share Image
I have known ninety-five of the world's great men in my time, and of these eighty-seven were followers of the Bible. — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence and refinement so they think they will impress others with… — Barbara Walters Copy Share Image
“Great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their life work disappears.” — Ivo Andrić Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men standing on the… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked… — Warren G. Harding Copy Share Image
Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left… — Ralph Vaughan Williams Copy Share Image
“Sheldon Kopp, the author and psychologist, wrote, “There are no great men. If you have a hero, look again: you have diminished… — Jim Bouton Copy Share Image
Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image