Four Great Quotes
21 quotes by 20 authors
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There are four great sciences, without which the other sciences cannot be known nor a knowledge of things secured ... Of these sciences the gate…
— Roger Bacon
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There is no way to escape death, it is just like trying to escape by four great mountains touching sky. There is no escape from…
— Dalai Lama
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I bid you conquer in your warfare against your four great enemies, the world, the devil, the flesh, and above all, that obstinate and perverse…
— Augustus William Hare
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That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury, stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment…
— Robert H. Jackson
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Earth as we know it came into being through its four great components: land, water, air, and life, all interacting in the light and energy…
— Thomas Berry
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The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs, which we…
— Robert H. Jackson
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Avril Lavigne sold a massive amount of albums and she has to top that with her next release. We have four great albums behind us,…
— Kelly Jones
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The Art of Peace is based on four Great Virtues: Bravery, Wisdom, Love, and Friendship, symbolized by Fire, Heaven, Earth, and Water.
— Morihei Ueshiba
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The Tao is great. The universe is great. Earth is great. Man is great. These are the four great powers. Man follows the earth. Earth…
— Laozi
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I have four kids, seven grandkids, and four great-grandkids. Maybe I can become a great-great-grandfather if I hang on!
— Dick Van Dyke
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To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and…
— D. H. Lawrence
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The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
— George Orwell
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When mountains and waters are painted, blue, green, and red paints are used, strange rocks and wondrous stones are used, the four jewels and the…
— Dogen
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Hunger, love, vanity, and fear. There are four great motives of human action.
— William Graham Sumner
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There are four great measures for my administration - a reduction of tariff, an independent treasury, settlement of the Oregon boundary and acquisition of California.
— James K. Polk
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Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel books. I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist but rather…
— Paul Theroux
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There are only four great arts: music, painting, sculpture, and ornamental pastry- architecture being perhaps the least banal derivative of the latter.
— Julia Child
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Why four great powers should fight over Serbia no fellow can understand.
— John Burns
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When you are under the power of sexual desire, anger and worldly attachment, or a greedy miser in love with your wealth; if you have…
— Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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When you play all that as a body of work there are four great songs, four mediocre songs and four bad songs. I didn't know…
— Randy Bachman
Who Wrote These Four Great Quotes
20 authors contributed a total of 21 Four Great Quotes as follows: