Quotes of: Great-man Keyword

My father told me that it is only a mad man that keeps bushy hairs. I asked him, "what about the great men with bushy hairs?". He replied, "education had made them mad, so study to be wise and sane.

Michael Bassey Johnson

I had a lot of bad jobs but the one big internship I had is I interned for 'SNL' when I was 21 years old and that was the joke. You intern there and you think man, I'm going to be with the writers and the great comedians. Then you're getting everybod...

Jake Johnson

It's a great battle, and it really is a battle, and there are people from all walks of life, you know, never judge anybody at the table: A man can be the greatest poker player and he might know all the numbers, but he might get beaten by a really sav...

James Woods

A lot of women have missed out on some great men, because they were busy jugding them by where they stood in their past endeavors. Not knowing that where a man stands today is nothing compared to where he could be in the future.

Edmond Mbiaka

In my own sphere I did everything that could possibly be expected of a man who believes in the greatness of his people and who is filled with fanaticism for the greatness of his country, in order to bring about the victory of Adolf Hitler and the Nat...

Hans Frank

Who is he anyhow, an actor?" "No." "A dentist?" "...No, he's a gambler." Gatsby hesitated, then added cooly: "He's the man who fixed the World Series back in 1919." "Fixed the World Series?" I repeated. The idea staggered me. I remembered, of course,...

The Great Gatsby

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and bl...

Theodore Roosevelt

The history of man proves that religion perverts man's concept of life and the universe, and has made him a cringing coward before the blind forces of nature. If you believe that there is a God; that man was 'created'; that he was forbidden to eat of...

An Atheist Manifesto

Spontaneously, without any theological training, I, a child, grasped the incompatibility of God and shit and thus came to question the basic thesis of Christian anthropology, namely that man was created in God's image. Either/or: either man was creat...

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

William F. Buckley was a man who had a great capacity for fun and for amusing himself by amazing others.

Dick Cavett

There is no distance so minute and yet so great as the distance between God and man. (The Lonesome God)

Jonathan R. Walton

Governor Isaac Stevens of the Washington Territory said there were a great many white people in our country, and many more would come; that he wanted the land marked out so that the Indians and the white man could be separated.

Chief Joseph

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

Desiderius Erasmus

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.

Lewis Mumford

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

Mary Hunter Austin

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

Norman Cousins

No man was ever yet a great poet, without being at the same time a profound philosopher.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you get a great wife who understands the demands of someone in athletics, I think that's important.

Tony Romo

No man has the right to use the great powers of the Presidency to lead the people, indirectly, into war.

Wendell Willkie