Quotes with great-grandparents

Quotes 681 till 700 of 2174.

  • E. M. Forster I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Bruce Dickinson I do like Marylin Manson, actually. I think, he's very talented and he did make some great music.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Sir Isaac Newton I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
    Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations and Characters, of Books and Men (1820)
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Nikola Tesla I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men.
    Nikola Tesla
    Serbian-American inventor, engineer, physicist, and futurist (1856 - 1943)
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  • Jane Austen I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
    Letter to Cassandra (24-12-1798) in Austen - Letters
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Alex Trebek I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off.
    Alex Trebek
    Canadian-American television personality and actor (1940 - )
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  • John le Carré I don't think it is given to any of us to be impertinent to great religions with impunity.
    John le Carré
    British author (1931 - 2020)
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  • Richard Nixon I don't think that a leader can control to any great extent his destiny. Very seldom can he step in and change the situation if the forces of history are running in another direction.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Alan Paton I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Plato I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Alain de Botton I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • J. G. Ballard I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Franklin Pierce Adams I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
    Franklin Pierce Adams
    American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • William Congreve I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Brooke Burke I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Bruce Coville I grew up around the corner from my grandparents' dairy farm, which was three miles outside of a small town called Phoenix.
    Bruce Coville
    American author (1950 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing - a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Albert Ellis I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Brock Lesnar I had a great run with WWE. WWE gave me great visibility. I met my wife there, and I got paid a lot of money; it was just my time to go. I sensed it. I was smart enough to leave. That's the bottom line.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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