Quotes 1441 till 1460 of 2249.
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Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.
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Silence is one great art of conversation. He is not a fool who knows when to hold his tongue; and a person may gain credit for sense, eloquence, wit, who merely says nothing to lessen the opinion which others have of these qualities in themselves.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
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Since becoming a central banker, I have learned to mumble with great incoherence. If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
Source: Senaats committee in 1987 -
Sir, he was dull in company, dull in his closet, dull everywhere. He was dull in a new way, and that made many people think him great.
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Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.
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Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.
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Sleep makes people calmer, more alert, less fearful - just plain happier, or so I see around me and in me. I am sure that if this great nation were to concentrate on getting more sleep, we would be a happier, more confident people, and that by itself would be a major achievement.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
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Small projects need much more help than great.
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So stick up ivy and the bays, and then restore the heathen ways, green will remind you of the Spring, though this great day denies the thing, and mortifies the earth, and all, but your wild revels, and loose hall.
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Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.
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Society is composed of two great classes, those that have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners.
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Socrates had a student named Plato, Plato had a student named Aristotle, and Aristotle had a student named Alexander the Great.
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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.
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Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.
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Some libertarians say, 'Well, if people work harder, they can make more money.' But, you know, my mother is a nurse and I am a venture capitalist. I think no matter how great a nurse she is, she wouldn't earn a one-thousandth of what I can make, if that.
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