Quotes with greatness-great

Quotes 1721 till 1740 of 2249.

  • Walt Whitman The Past - the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf - the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Black Hawk The pathway to glory is rough, and many gloomy hours obscure it. May the Great Spirit shed light on yours, and that you may never experience the humiliation that the power of the American government has reduced me to, is the wish of him who, in his native forests, was once as proud as you.
    Source: The Autobiography of Black Hawk (1833)
    Black Hawk
     
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  • Plato The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Angela Merkel The people in East Germany have lived through so many changes in the last 15 years like never before in the country, and they did this often with great enthusiasm. But in the West we also have a high degree of transformations.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Andrew Jackson The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Oscar Wilde The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Aldous Huxley The pleasures of ignorance are as great in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Roland Barthes The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire policy would be jeopardized!
    Roland Barthes
    French writer, literary critic, linguist and philosopher (1915 - 1980)
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  • Brian Tracy The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channeled toward some great good.
    Brian Tracy
    Canadian-American motivational public speaker and self-development aut (1944 - )
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  • Cate Blanchett The power of the story sheds a light and great perspective on well known facts. The power of cinema draws on that collective history.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The present generation, wearied by its chimerical efforts, relapses into complete indolence. Its condition is that of a man who has only fallen asleep towards morning: first of all come great dreams, then a feeling of laziness, and finally a witty or clever excuse for remaining in bed.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bob Graham The president, clearly as a result of the war and the afterglow of the war, is in a time of great attention.
    Bob Graham
    American politician and author (1936 - )
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  • Winston Churchill The price of greatness is responsibility.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • V. S. Pritchett The principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
    V. S. Pritchett
    British writer and literary critic (1900 - 1997)
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  • Bobby Flay The process and the great smells it produces make everyone hungry and get everyone's mouth watering. And it gives men a chance to cook.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Bernard De Voto The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
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  • Johann Kaspar Lavater The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Hubert Humphrey The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a master-architect; in execution, the labors of many.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Bryan Ferry The quality of the writing, really. Simple as that. Beautiful words. It's very nice as a singer to do great songs, which have wonderful lyrics and strong feelings underneath the song.
    Bryan Ferry
    English singer and songwriter (1945 - )
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  • A. B. Yehoshua The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people.
    A. B. Yehoshua
    Israeli novelist (1936 - )
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