Quotes with great-grandparents

Quotes 2061 till 2080 of 2174.

  • Carl Stokes When you realize that people have that sort of feeling about you, that you're going to be some sort of savior from their dilemma, it's very sobering, because it imposes a great responsibility upon you.
    Carl Stokes
    American politician and diplomat (1927 - 1996)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Ben Shahn When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Barkhad Abdi When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
    Barkhad Abdi
    Somali–American actor and director (1985 - )
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  • Yann Martel When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
    Het leven van Pi
    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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  • W. M. Thackeray Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bartlett Sher Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
    Bartlett Sher
    American theatre director (1959 - )
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  • Jean Paul Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.
    On War (1832)
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Machiavelli Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Willa Cather Where there is great love there are always miracles.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Jonathan Swift Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Heinrich Heine Whether a revolutions succeeds or fails people of great hearts will always be sacrificed to it.
    Heinrich Heine
    German poet (1797 - 1856)
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  • Bill Mauldin While a guy at home is sweating over his income tax and Victory garden, a dogface somewhere is getting great joy out of wiggling his little finger. He does it just to see it move and to prove to himself that he is still alive and able to move it.
    Up Front
    Bill Mauldin
    American cartoonist (1921 - 2003)
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  • Oscar Wilde While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Adam Schiff While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream.
    Adam Schiff
    American lawyer and politician (1960 - )
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Lewis Carroll Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Mark Twain Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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