Quotes of: Great-man Keyword

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.

Sitting Bull

A prudent man should always follow in the path trodden by great men and imitate those who are most excellent, so that if he does not attain to their greatness, at any rate he will get some tinge of it.

Prince

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.

Mark Twain

A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.

Tamara Mellon

Sadat was a great and good man, and his most bitter and dangerous enemies were people who were obsessed with hatred for his peaceful goals.

Jimmy Carter

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read.

G.K. Chesterton

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

William Allen White

Wisdom... is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

The Great Crash of 1929

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

The Great Gatsby

I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold.

The Plague

Every man must be a part of a progressive revolution at least once in his lifetime! This will leave him great honour and great memories for the future.

Mehmet Murat ildan

We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.

Armstrong Williams

As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey; it runs along for centuries, ever responsive to the strain of the increasing needs of a growing population and an enlarging domain.

Cleveland Abbe

It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.

Daniel Baldwin

Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.

Leslie Stephen

I am ready. I'm in great shape. My workouts have been great. I'm ready to get back and help a team get to the Super Bowl.

Shaun Alexander

no punishment, in my opinion, is to great, for the man who can build his greatness upon his country's ruin

George Washington

George: If one is not enjoying one's present, there isn't a great deal to suggest that the future should be any better.

A Single Man

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.

Victor Hugo

Hudson: [after the drop ship crash] That's great, this is really fuckin' great, man. Now, what the fuck are we supposed to do? We're in some pretty shit now, man. Hicks: [Grabs him by the shirt] Are you finished? Newt: Guess we're not gonna make it, ...

Aliens

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much needed now.

Frank Lloyd Wright