Quotes with great-grandfather

Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 2185.

  • Joan Didion To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 108
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Horace To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Lord Chesterfield To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Walt Whitman To have great poets, there must be great audiences too.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Matthew Prior To John I owed great obligation; but John, unhappily, thought fit to publish it to all the nation: Sure John and I are more than quit.
    Matthew Prior
    British diplomat, poet (1664 - 1721)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Joseph De Maistre To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Sydney Smith To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Madame Neckar To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
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  • Oscar Wilde To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Billy Campbell To me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Augustus William Hare To talk without effort is, after all, the great charm of talking.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • John Berger Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why - but the editorialists forget it - terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Virginia Woolf Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face - as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Beth Grant Tone is so important because you can have a great script just be ruined with the wrong director - if they shtick it up or something. With 'Little Miss Sunshine,' I was so concerned they weren't going to play the pageant official realistically because you don't have to wink to play those kinds of characters.
    Beth Grant
    American actress (1949 - )
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