Great men Quote by Max Brooks Download Open image “I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.” — Max Brooks ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great men Great times Men Time
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
Nothing great will ever be achieved without great men, and men are great only if they are determined to be so. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Sooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
When I believe in my ability to do something, there is no such word as no. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I think the general anxiety of the 1960s - '70s spawned our interest in the living dead. When people worry about the end of… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I think Americans are at our best when we recover from a crisis. We've suffered some blows that other countries would have never recovered… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
“The living dead had taken more from us than land and loved ones. They'd robbed us of our confidence as the planet's dominant life… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Often, a school is your best bet-perhaps not for education but certainly for protection from an undead attack. — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
Any survival guide will tell you, don't buy a pair of combat boots before any disaster. They'll tear your feet up. Or water -… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I think the next 50 years are going to present the human race with challenges that so far exceed the limitations of geopolitical boundaries… — Zachary Quinto Copy Share Image
“You are destiny for greatness. Your future is in the hands of the Lord.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority,… — John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton Copy Share Image
“The origins of great companies inevitably start with the ideas and enterprise of great men.” — Bill Scott 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 continuation of… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
My father was a really great man. I'll never forget the last thing he ever said to me. Nor will I ever repeat it. — John S. Hall 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
First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do. — Vito Fossella Copy Share Image
Greatness by nature includes a power, but not a will to power. ... The great man, whether we comprehend him in the most intense… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image