Book Quote by Jaroslav Hašek Download Open image “Great times call for great men.” — Jaroslav Hašek ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Great men Great times Men Time
I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great. — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
They say great times make great men. I don't buy it. I saw a lot of weakness, a lot of filth. People who should… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
There are no great men, just great circumstances, and how they handle those circumstances will determine the outcome of history. — William Halsey Copy Share Image
“Those who boggle at strong language are cowards, because it is real life which is shocking them, and weaklings like that are the very… — Jaroslav Hašek Copy Share Image
“When afterwards he mentioned the names of the Tartars he had got to know on his pilgrimage, like Hallimulabalibay, to which he added a… — Jaroslav Hasek Copy Share Image
“The famous field altar came from the Jewish firm of Moritz Mahler in Vienna, which manufactured all kinds of accessories for mass as well… — Jaroslav Hašek Copy Share Image
“I suffered the misfortune that I sat down at a table and started drinking one glass of beer after another.” — Jaroslav Hašek Copy Share Image
“This is what opportunity brings with it. It's the self-determination of man. Every man in the course of his life eternal life undergoes countless… — Jaroslav Hašek Copy Share Image
“It was once said, and very rightly, that a man who is well brought-up may read anything. The only people who boggle at what… — Jaroslav Hašek Copy Share Image
When Å vejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: 'I really don't know why those loonies… — Jaroslav Hašek Copy Share Image
Jesus Christ was innocent too,' said Svejk, 'and all the same they crucified him. No one anywhere has ever worried about a man being… — Jaroslav Hašek Copy Share Image
After debauches and orgies there always follows the moral hangover. — Jaroslav Hašek Copy Share Image
“The lieutenant’s fooling around again with the telegraph girl at the station,” said the corporal, after he had gone. “He’s been running after her… — Jaroslav Hašek Copy Share Image
I was discharged from the army for idiocy and officially certified by a special commission as an idiot. I'm an official idiot. — Jaroslav Hašek Copy Share Image
And somewhere from the dim ages of history the truth dawned upon Europe that the morrow would obliterate the plans of today. — Jaroslav Hašek Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
