Quotes with great-grandfather

Quotes 1701 till 1720 of 2185.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Dryden The secret pleasure of a generous act, is the great mind's great bribe.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Carl Schurz The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Blaise Pascal The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Thomas J. Peters The simple act of playing positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Iris Murdoch The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Camille Paglia The smouldering eroticism of great European actresses like Jeanne Moreau demonstrated to my generations women's archetypal mystery and glamour, completely missing from the totalitarian world-view of the misogynist Foucault. For me, the big French D is not Derrida, but Deneuve.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot The Sovereign has, under a constitutional monarchy such as ours, three rights - the right to be consulted, the right to encourage, the right to warn. And a king of great sense and sagacity would want no others.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • David Lloyd George The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which matter for a nation - the great peaks we had forgotten, of Honor, Duty, Patriotism, and clad in glittering white, the great pinnacle of Sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to Heaven.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • George Herbert Allen The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
    George Herbert Allen
    American football coach (1918 - 1990)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • B. D. Wong The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Willa Cather The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Henry James The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Samuel Johnson The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Boomer Esiason The support of organizations including the NY Jets, Canon USA, USA Football, and Outback Steakhouse is a great example of how corporate America can make an impact in bettering the communities where employees work and live.
    Boomer Esiason
    American football player (1961 - )
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  • Barbara Ann Radnofsky The Supreme Court, in 2005, emphasized and contrasted the great power of Congress under the Commerce Clause to regulate interstate commerce versus much more limited federal power under the discarded Articles of Confederation.
    Barbara Ann Radnofsky
    American politician, author and mediator (1956 - )
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman The system was aided by the Church, whose natural interests allied it more to the great than to the meek.
    A Distant Mirror
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Brendan Fraser The test audience holds a great deal of power in the process of filmmaking in the United States.
    Brendan Fraser
    American and Canadian actor (1969 - )
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