Quotes with great-grandparents

Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 2174.

  • Ben Stein Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • Jean Baptiste Racine Small crimes always precedes great ones.
    Jean Baptiste Racine
    French playwright (1639 - 1699)
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  • Blaise Pascal Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Demosthenes Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
    Demosthenes
    Greek statesman and orator (382 - 322)
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  • Alighieri Dante Small projects need much more help than great.
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Henry Vaughan So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
    Henry Vaughan
    Welsh poet, author, translator and physician (1621 - 1695)
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  • Bill Frist Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Nicolas Chamfort Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
    Nicolas Chamfort
    French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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  • Tom Morris Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.
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  • William Shakespeare Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Joseph Conrad Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Ben Horowitz Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn't earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that.
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Harry S. Truman Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.
    Harry S. Truman
    American president (1884 - 1972)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Ben Affleck Sometimes I get insecure about being a real director because I look at the great directors, and they have such command. But maybe that keeps me critical of myself. Maybe it keeps me moving forward.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Bob Beamon Sometimes when you've reached a peak experience, you look for other peak experiences... I'd always been interested in art. I was looking for other experiences outside of sports. Art was a form of expression I had always liked a great deal.
    Bob Beamon
    American track and field athlete (1946 - )
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  • Adolf Hitler Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be 'discovered' by an election.
    Adolf Hitler
    German politician (1889 - 1945)
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  • James Russell Lowell Sorrow is the great idealizer.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Peggy Noonan Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy.
    Peggy Noonan
    American Author, Presidential Speechwriter (1950 - )
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  • Bill Bradley Sports is a metaphor for overcoming obstacles and achieving against great odds. Athletes, in times of difficulty, can be important role models.
    Bill Bradley
    American former professional basketball player and politician (1943 - )
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