Quotes of: Great-man Keyword

So you see, the most vital question then becomes, what type of woman will conquer our hero? If she be of poor quality, he’ll become a slave. But if she be great, then her greatness will elevate the man to greater heights than he could ever have att...

The Sword

My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.

Arlen Specter

In like manner, if I let myself believe anything on insufficient evidence, there may be no great harm done by the mere belief; it may be true after all, or I may never have occasion to exhibit it in outward acts. But I cannot help doing this great wr...

The Ethics of Belief and Other Essays

O, great wise man,' she said, 'I have been wondering so many things. Is life more than sitting at home doing the same thing over and over? Wise man, is life more than watching one's relatives do unpleasant things, or more than grim tasks one must per...

Horseradish

They saw her husband, this giant of a man in God’s Kingdom, this man, that for over fifteen years was their example of what a great man and husband looked like, walking up to his weeping wife, gently embracing her, soothing her, lifting and holding...

A Wrath Like Thunder

Common man does not speculate about the great problems. With regard to them he relies upon other people's authority, he behaves as "every decent fellow must behave,'' he is like a sheep in the herd. It is precisely this intellectual inertia that char...

Ludwig von Mises

When we take your person into account, you who are a young maiden, to whom God gives the strength and power to be the champion who casts the rebels down and feeds France with the sweet, nourishing milk of peace, here indeed is something quite extraor...

Ditié de Jehanne d'Arc

From the beginning, Judeo-Christian principles have been the foundation for American public dialogue and government policy. They serve as the solid basis for political activism in support of a better socioeconomic environment. Found in American homes...

Restoring Education: Central to American Greatness Fifteen Principles That Liberated Mankind from the Politics of Tyranny

The wise man who has become accustomed to necessities knows better how to share with others than how to take from them, so great a treasure of self-sufficiency has he found.

Epicurus: Letters, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid than nature made them.

New Hopes for a Changing World

This is the second day now that I do not know the result of the juegos he thought. But I must have confidence and I must be worthy of the great DiMaggio who does all things perfectly even with the pain of the bone spur in his heel.

The Old Man and the Sea

He was a handsome man, not in the way of mercurial Cesare or the false angel, Morozzi, but with a calm steadiness that sat well upon him and shown in everything he did. The creations he drew from fire and air were possessed of great delicacy, but I w...

Poison

If a man is powerful, then his rival must therefore also be powerful. The other’s prestige enhances your own. So choose your enemies wisely. My enemy is so great he won’t be born like a normal man. Oh, not Immaculate Conception like my God, but h...

This Book is Not FOR SALE

He was, as every truly great poet has ever been, a good man; but finding it impossible to realize his own aspirations, either in religion or politics, or society, he gave up his heart to the living spirit and light within him, and avenged himself on ...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.

George Gershwin

Such is the great nature of man, it resides the true face beneath a glittering masquerade.

That Frequent Visitor

The man who does not read miss a great literature of knowledge. You must dare to read and reread.

Lailah Gifty Akita

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town.

Leo Tolstoy

Crowds most envy the lonely man who walks confidently as if he is walking with the great crowds!

Mehmet Murat ildan

No truly great one ever argues with a crowd. He chooses out one man, and speaks to him, him only.

Marmaduke William Pickthall

There's a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little written about a man's change of life.

Frank Langella