Quotes with great-grandparents

Quotes 1801 till 1820 of 2174.

  • John Keats There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • George Moore There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.
    George Moore
    Irish writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Mark Twain There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me - I always feel that they have not said enough.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Samuel Johnson There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his great gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Anna Quindlen There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero There never was a great soul that did not have some divine inspiration.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Benjamin Franklin There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Robert Frost There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • Auberon Herbert There never yet has been a great system sustained by force under which all the best faculties of men have not slowly withered.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Louis Kronenberger There seems to be a great misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
    Louis Kronenberger
    American literary critic and novelist (1904 - 1980)
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  • Olive Schreiner There was never a great man who had not a great mother.
    Olive Schreiner
    South African author and anti-war campaigner (1855 - 1920)
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  • Charles Dudley Warner There was never a nation that became great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help.
    Charles Dudley Warner
    American writer (1829 - 1900)
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  • Carol Leifer There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.
    Carol Leifer
    American comedian, writer, producer and actress (1956 - )
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  • George Herbert There would be no great men if there were no little ones.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Josh Billings There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Aaron Sorkin There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
    Aaron Sorkin
    American screenwriter, director, producer, and playwright (1961 - )
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  • Bryan Adams There's a saying, 'It's easy to write songs, but very difficult to write great songs.' I'm going through that right now.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Barry Eisler There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Bill Pullman There's definitely a pattern of great British shows that get reinvented in America and do really well here, but I think 'Torchwood' is a bit different. It's more of a hybrid that doesn't exist as a reinvention.
    Bill Pullman
    American actor (1953 - )
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