Quotes with great-sounding

Quotes 1601 till 1620 of 2172.

  • Jacques BéNigne Bossuet The greatest weakness of all is the great fear of appearing weak.
    Jacques BéNigne Bossuet
    French bishop and writer (1627 - 1704)
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  • Blaise Pascal The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
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    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ernest Dimnet The happiness of most people we know is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
    Ernest Dimnet
    French priest, writer and lecturer (1866 - 1954)
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  • C. Everett Koop The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most neglected group of people in the country, largely because it is hard to find them.
    C. Everett Koop
    American doctor and pediatric surgeon (1916 - 2013)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Caitriona Balfe The herbalist I met a few times - it was great - she gave me literature about the different processes that an herbalist would do to make medicines from certain herbs and things.
    Caitriona Balfe
    Irish actress, producer and former (1979 - )
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  • Napoleon The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Felix Adler The hero is one who kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by.
    Felix Adler
    German American professor of political and social ethics (1851 - 1933)
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  • Richard Cecil The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.
    Richard Cecil
    British Evangelical Anglican priest (1748 - 1810)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Martin Luther King The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • John Berger The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
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  • Paracelsus The human spirit is so great a thing that no man can express it; could we rightly comprehend the mind of man nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.
    Paracelsus
    Swiss doctor and alchemist, born Theophrastus von Hohenheim (1493 - 1541)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson The hungry world cannot be fed until and unless the growth of its resources and the growth of its population come into balance. Each man and woman-and each nation - must make decisions of conscience and policy in the face of this great problem.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Alan Cranston The idea of being a foreign correspondent and wandering the world and witnessing great events, having adventures and covering the activities of world leaders, appealed to me greatly. It was a very glamorous life in those days.
    Alan Cranston
    American politician and journalist (1914 - 2000)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Campbell Newman The idea that we are not going to look after the Great Barrier Reef, which is just a wonderful tourism resource that it can be just for one example - we are not going to look after it, we won't have tight environment regulation, is frankly just not true.
    Campbell Newman
    Australian politician (1963 - )
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  • Bela Karolyi The ideal gymnast would be between 4 feet 7 and 5-2. I wouldn't be able to pinpoint an ideal height, however. It would be foolish to say that a gymnast above 5-2 could not be great.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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