Quotes with great-sounding

Quotes 1621 till 1640 of 2172.

  • Carl Gustav Jung The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Blaise Pascal The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Blaise Pascal The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Norman Cousins The individual is capable of both great compassion and great indifference. He has it within his means to nourish the former and outgrow the latter.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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  • Voltaire The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • C. L. R. James The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Barry Eisler The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Alva Myrdal The inventions and the great discoveries have opened up whole continents to reciprocal communication and interchange, provided we are willing.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Boris Johnson The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by the Germans.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Anita Brookner The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
    Anita Brookner
    British Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Milan Kundera The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Kahlil Gibran The lights of stars that were extinguished ages ago still reaches us. So it is with great men who died centuries ago, but still reach us with the radiations of their personalities.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas The little boy, Spencer Breslin, it was just so great to have a kid on set. He is talented, he's a pro. He's been doing this for years, I think he started when he was four or five.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy - invincible determination - a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.
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  • Henry Miller The loss of sex polarity is part and parcel of the larger disintegration, the reflex of the soul's death, and coincident with the disappearance of great men, great deeds, great causes, great wars, etc.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • John Burroughs The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Michel Foucault The lyricism of marginality may find inspiration in the image of the ''outlaw,'' the great social nomad, who prowls on the confines of a docile, frightened order.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Sam Snead The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
    Sam Snead
    American professional golfer (1912 - 2002)
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