Quotes with great-grandfather

Quotes 1481 till 1500 of 2185.

  • Seneca The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Hermann Hesse The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Candace Camp The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.
    Candace Camp
    American writer (1949 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • George Orwell The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ben Cardin The Clinton Foundation has been able to help millions of people - over 10 million with HIV/AIDS alone - saved countless lives. It's extremely important to global health. They've done some really great things.
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  • Alfred P. Sloan The column's worked out great for me. I've gotten a ton of ego satisfaction, had a lot of fun, won a batch of prizes and occasionally done some public good.
    Alfred P. Sloan
    American businessman (1875 - 1966)
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  • Sigmund Freud The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Carl Levin The Constitution is a document that should only be amended with great caution.
    Carl Levin
    American attorney (1934 - )
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  • William Butler Yeats The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Bud Grant The day after high school, I was off to basic training at the Great Lakes Naval Station. You gotta understand, we didn't care about sports. We wanted to win the war. We wanted to win the war! And at the time, we didn't know if we would.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • A. N. Wilson The death of any man aged 56 is very sad for his widow and family. And no one would deny that Steve Jobs was a brilliant and highly innovative technician, with great business flair and marketing ability.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Tacitus The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Pete Sampras The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.
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  • Henry Home The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for.
    Henry Home
    British lawyer and writer (1696 - 1782)
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  • Arthur Henderson The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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