Quotes with great-sounding

Quotes 1721 till 1740 of 2172.

  • Frederick the Great The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Jean-Luc Godard The truth is that there is no terror untempered by some great moral idea.
    Jean-Luc Godard
    French film director (1930 - 2022)
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  • Calvin Coolidge The two great political parties of the nation have existed for the purpose, each in accordance with its own principles, of undertaking to serve the interests of the whole nation. Their members of the Congress are chosen with that great end in view.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bob Seger The two hours onstage is great. But I can only play a show and then take a night off. I have to sing for two hours, and then I've gotta rest it for a night. So it's the other 46 hours that are just boring as heck.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his work.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Cass Sunstein The U.S. is supposed to be a nation of second chances, but for the 70 million Americans with a criminal record, we're not doing such a great job. Even among those whose crimes were nonviolent and committed long ago, too many still bear a scarlet letter.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Ralph Bunche The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.
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  • Samuel Smiles The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Lady Blessington The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
    Lady Blessington
    Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess (1789 - 1849)
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  • Susanna Moodie The want of education and moral training is the only real barrier that exists between the different classes of men. Nature, reason, and Christianity recognize no other. Pride may say Nay; but Pride was always a liar, and a great hater of the truth.
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  • I Ching The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.
    I Ching
    Chinese classical text (Book of Changes)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or smal - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Lao-Tzu The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, We did it ourselves.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Sir Walter Scott The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
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  • Aristotle The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination. Never, never, never could one conceive what love is, beforehand, never. Life can be great - quite god-like. It can be so. God be thanked I have proved it.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • John Stuart Mill The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it - a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes - will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Carson McCullers The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes humility, love and great courage. How can you create a character without live and the struggle that goes with love?
    Carson McCullers
    American novelist and poet (1917 - 1967)
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