Quotes 3641 till 3660 of 5065.
-
The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.
-
The great decisions of human life usually have far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no universal recipe for living. Each of us carries his own life-form within him-an irrational form which no other can outbid.
-
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
-
The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
-
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
-
The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?
-
The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
-
The great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in this, that man and maid, freed of all false feelings and reluctances, will seek each other not as opposites, but as brother and sister, as neighbors, and will come together as human beings.
-
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
-
The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
-
The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary.
-
The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
-
The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
-
The groundhog is like most other prophets; it delivers its prediction and then disappears.
-
The guns and bombs, the rockets and the warships, all are symbols of human failure.
-
The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history.
-
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.
-
The hardest thing about starting a company and running a company is, there's just so many expectations on you, and there are so many people who have things that they want you to do. It's a lot like life about that.
-
The hierarchy of class in London was rigid. It was like a religion. It still is to a certain extent.
-
The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
All human-like famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 183)
