“Great men were always average men, that summoned the courage, honor and will to do extraordinary things that would change the world.… — Tonny Brown Copy Share Image
We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I would gladly say 'Heil Hitler!' and at once part company with him, realizing what a pitiable insult it is to such… — William Joyce Copy Share Image
“I maintain that all great men or even men a little out of the common, that is to say capable of giving… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
The one thing that Jessica [Johnson] and Miles[Morales] have in common is that there's a great many people in the audience who… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Men nearly always follow the tracks made by others and proceed in their affairs by imitation, even though they cannot entirely keep… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Do not talk about giftedness, inborn talents! One can assume great men of all kinds who were very little gifted. They acquired… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you overesteem great men, people become powerless. If you overvalue possessions, people begin to steal. The Master leads by emptying people's… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“...the mode by which he "heard" the universe and projected it far beyond himself. Perhaps it was in this, I said to… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Build your house on granite. By granite I mean your nature that you are torturing to death, the love in your child's… — Wilhelm Reich Copy Share Image
“Nothing any man can do will improve that genius; but the genius needs his mind, and he can broaden that mind, fertilize… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“I [...] suggest considering Byron as a Scottish poet – I say ’Scottish’, not ’Scots’, since he wrote in English. The one… — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“The air of Paris is quite different from any other. There's something about it which thrills and excites and intoxicates you, and… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Public opinion contains all kinds of falsity and truth, but it takes a great man to find the truth in it. The… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
The Americans speak so much about freedom in their sermons. Freedom as a possession is a doubtful thing for a church; freedom… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Nobody cares much at heart about Titian, only there is a strange undercurrent of everlasting murmur about his name, which means the… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I have come to think that great men are characterized precisely by the extreme position which they take, and that their heroism… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
Famous crime stories almost always lead to the passing of new laws. There's a great many intersections between this unseemly tabloid phenomena… — Bill James Copy Share Image
“Pretty girls lie at the centre of straight culture, dyke culture, fag culture. They sell everything, they buy everything, they ruin great… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive… — Lesley Gore Copy Share Image
Pierre Trudeau was too much of a professional politician to be described as a good man, nor, it can be argued despite… — Peter Brimelow Copy Share Image
If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The reason why great men meet with so little pity or attachment in adversity, would seem to be this: the friends of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult… — Margot Asquith Copy Share Image
A lady once expressed herself in society - the very words show that they were uttered with fervour and under the pressure… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
The selection of a subject is to the author what choice of position is to the general,--once skilfully determined, the battle is… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Christ is the Word of God. It is not in certain texts written in the New Testament, valuable as they are; it… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Have you seen them…..because I saw them come looking for you, Mercy is their leader while Favour is the also there, this… — Ogunyombo Oluwaseun David Copy Share Image
I wonder whether those of our political masters who have been put in charge of the defence of the country can distinguish… — Sam Manekshaw Copy Share Image
A wholesome regard for the memory of the great men of long ago is the best assurance to a people of a… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds;… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I say that our system of tests and grades, as it now exists, is one source of the low yield of great… — Edwin Land Copy Share Image
A market downturn, doesn't bother us. For us and our long term investors, it is an opportunity to increase our ownership of… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
When I had my daughter, I'd been chugging along in my career and had great mentors and success, but it was the… — Jen Psaki Copy Share Image