Quotes 25701 till 25720 of 26101.
-
All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.
-
All religions have honored the beggar. For he proves that in a matter at the same time as prosaic and holy, banal and regenerative as the giving of alms, intellect and morality, consistency and principles are miserably inadequate.
-
All you need to be a fisherman is patience and a worm.
-
Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
-
Ambition: An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.
Source: The Devil's Dictionary (1911) -
An account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
-
An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
-
An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it becomes transformed by thought.
-
An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
-
Analysis kills spontaneity. The grain once ground into flour springs and germinates no more.
-
And I did laugh sans intermission an hour by his dial. O noble fool, a worthy fool - motley's the only wear.
-
And Mary J. Blige, she's got all these fur coats and hats and stuff. She's good; I like her.
-
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
-
Any experience can be transformed into something of value.
-
Anyone who hates children and animals can't be all bad.
-
Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money.
-
Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
-
Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane.
-
As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.
-
As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.
All something-and famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 1286)