Quotes of: Great-man Keyword

A man who does not read miss great wisdom.

Lailah Gifty Akita

The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to live with purpose.

Michel de Montaigne

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

Billy Graham

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

Andrew Carnegie

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

Dylan Thomas

He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

Herman Melville

It's always great to play a man who sets himself up to be punctured.

Jeremy Irons

But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend.

Paul Gascoigne

I have a great band. Oh, man. I'm so happy about them.

St. Vincent

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

William Booth

You will remember that Albertus Magnus, after describing minutely the process by which spirits may be invoked and commanded, adds emphatically that the process will instruct and avail only to the few - that a man must be born a magician! - that is, b...

Reign of Terror Volume 2: Great Victorian Horror Stories

It does seem to me, that herein we see the rare virtue of a strong individual vitality, and the rare virtue of thick walls, and the rare virtue of interior spaciousness. Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm amo...

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale

Sobs, heavy, hoarse and loud, shook the chairs, and great tears fell through his fingers on the floor - just such tears, sir, as you dropped into the coffin where lay your first-born son; such tears, woman, as you shed when you heard the cries of you...

Uncle Tom's Cabin

My mother was a Bloomsbury figure: a great friend of TS Eliot, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell. My grandmother, Mary Hutchinson, gave her life to works of art, being an admirer of Matisse and Giaometti, whom I collected as a young man because of her.

Jacob Rothschild

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible

I like very masculine smells. I like wood scents on men. I just like a man to smell great, but I don't like very strong cologne. I don't like when a man is overpowered by cologne. I think subtle and sexy is always best.

Jessica White

Here is your great soul —the man who has given himself over to Fate; on the other hand, that man is a weakling and a degenerate who struggles and maligns the order of the universe and would rather reform the gods than reform himself.

Seneca

Except for my daughters, I have not grieved for any death as I have grieved for . His was a great and beautiful spirit, he was a man – all man, from his crown to his footsoles. My reverence for him was deep and genuine.

Mark Twain

I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.

Joan Cusack

If religion had a good purpose, then man would have created something great. But we're man: we mess up everything. We mess up nature. We mess up God. We take what is given to us and make it into what we think it should be.

Ziggy Marley