Quotes with great-sounding

Quotes 1521 till 1540 of 2172.

  • A. J. P. Taylor The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight.
    A. J. P. Taylor
    British historian (1906 - 1990)
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  • Baltasar Gracian The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Lord George Byron The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The great artist is a slave to his ideals.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • M. Scott Peck The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
    M. Scott Peck
    American psychiatrist and author (1936 - 2005)
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  • William Shakespeare The great baby you see there is not yet out of his swaddling-clouts.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • John F. Kennedy The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • John Morley The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without and to depart.
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Voltaire The great consolation in life is to say what one thinks.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Andrew Jackson The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • William Somerset Maugham The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him-an irrational form which no other can outbid.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Amelia Barr The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • George Santayana The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Benjamin Haydon The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Franklin Field The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.
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  • Arthur Erickson The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • George Orwell The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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