Quotes 1901 till 1920 of 2787.
-
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 dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.
-
The great dividing line between success and failure can be expressed in five words: I DID NOT HAVE TIME.
-
The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity.
-
The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
-
The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'
-
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
-
The greatest geniuses have always attributed everything to God, as if conscious of being possessed of a spark of His divinity.
-
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
-
The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
-
The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.
Source: An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (1920) -
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
-
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.
-
The Green Bay Packers never lost a football game. They just ran out of time.
-
The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
-
The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.
-
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.
-
The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
-
The hope is they would like to bring it to Broadway next year, so we'll see that's to come in the end of the finance year and everybody else and also real estate and what theaters are available at the time but I would like to come back with it.
-
The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
All time-conscious famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 96)
