Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 4601 till 4620 of 12035.

  • Cat Stevens In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.
    Cat Stevens
    British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1948 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill Clinton In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Schopenhauer In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
    - +
     0
  • Friedrich von Schlegel In actual life every great enterprise begins with and takes its first forward step in faith.
    Friedrich von Schlegel
    German man of letters and art critic (1772 - 1829)
    - +
     0
  • William Bernbach In advertising, not to be different is virtual suicide.
    - +
     0
  • Barack Obama In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.
    Independent Magazine (March 2007)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Charles Caleb Colton In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
    - +
     0
  • Bertrand Russell In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Sinclair Lewis In America most of us are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues.
    Lezing bij aanvaarden Nobelprijs 12-12-1930
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
    - +
     0
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Susan Sontag In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
    - +
     0
  • Gore Vidal In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
    - +
     0
  • Ben Katchor In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
    - +
     0
  • Carolyn Maloney In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
    - +
     0
  • Sir J. Walter Alexander Raleigh In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
    - +
     0
  • Blake Farenthold In an urban area, you're not going to be an hour away from another post office.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Terry Pratchett In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
    Terry Pratchett
    English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works (1948 - 2015)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Kristol In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
    - +
     0
  • John Kenneth Galbraith In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
    - +
     0
  • Yevgeny Yevtushenko In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them.
    - +
     0
All not-so-great famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 231)