Great Men Quotes - Page 32

• Ancient art has a specific inner content. At one time, art possessed the same purpose that books do in our day, namely: to preserve and transmit knowledge. In olden days, people did not write books, they incorporated their knowledge into works of art. We would find a great many ideas in the works of ancient art passed down to us, if only we knew how to read them.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Art, Book, Writing

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• Lennon's was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal's dad's living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him... Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a 'working-class hero.'

  Don Henley

  Song, Dad, Hero

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• You wouldn't show up to a great job with a terrible resume, so don't show up to a great man with a terrible past.

  Behdad Sami

  Jobs, Past, Men

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• Behind every great man is a woman. Telling him he's not so hot.

  Harrison Ford

  Men, Hot, Behind Every Great Man

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• A great many persons are able to become Members of this House without losing their insignificance.

  Beverley Baxter

  House, Able, Losing

  1946 Speech, House of Commons.

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• Behind every great man in prison is another great man in prison.

  Bob Saget

  Men, Prison, Behind Every Great Man

  Twitter post from Dec 29, 2012

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• I think behind every great man there's got to be a great woman, whether she's your wife, your girlfriend or not. I'm not gonna say that there's not that special girl out there. But I'm in the music biz, and I'm focused on the music.

  Prince Royce

  Girl, Men, Thinking

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• My photos tend to be confusing. I show a great many vistas.

  Ezra Stoller

  Confusing, Vistas, Shows

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• An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Earth, Fool

  Benjamin Franklin, Henry Stueber, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress) (1794). “Works of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin: consisting of his life, written by himself : together with essays, humourous, moral & literary, chiefly in the manner of the Spectator : in two volumes”

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• I earn and pay my own way as a great many women do today.

  Dinah Shore

  Pay, Today, Way

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• Behind every great man there stands a great woman. Behind every great woman is a great behind.

  William J. Clinton

  Men, Behind Every Great Man, Behinds

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• Academic freedom is being lost by a great many people who dare to challenge Darwinism. That's a terrifying situation. That's contrary to the principles of science.

  Ben Stein

  Academic Freedom, People, Challenges

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• A weaver who has to direct and to interweave a great many little threads has no time to philosophize about it, but rather he is so absorbed in his work that he doesn't think but acts, and he feels how things must go more than he can explain it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Thinking, Littles, Weavers

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• Simple femininity is the most important thing about a woman, and it is a quality a great many women are in jeopardy of losing. Women are being emancipated out of their femininity in this modern age.

  Yul Brynner

  Simple, Important, Age

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• If the spirit has passed through a great many sensations, possibly it can no longer be sated with them, but grows more excited, and demands more sensations, and stronger and stronger ones, until at length it falls exhausted.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Fall, Stronger, Demand

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• I can assure you, that once you get rid of the notion of art, you acquire a great many wonderful new freedoms.

  Jean Tinguely

  Art, Wonderful, Notion

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• Great Iraqi men and women, members of the families of the martyrs, You have offered the homeland the best thing you could afford. Thus you have come to merit love and gratitude from all Iraqis and from its plains, mountains, skies and waters. You are good sons of this country. You have offered to the country great men who have averted harm from the country and paved its way to glory and greatness.

  Saddam Hussein

  Country, Gratitude, Son

  "President Saddam Hussein's Speech on National Day", Baghdad : Dar al-Ma'mun for Translation and Pub, 1981.

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• Only a great man, believe me, and one whose excellence rises far above human failings, will not allow anything to be stolen from his own span of time, and his life is very long precisely because he has devoted to himself entirely any time that became available. None of it lay uncultivated and idle, none was under another man's control, for guarding it most jealously, he found nothing worth exchanging for his own precious time.

  Seneca the Younger

  Believe, Men, Long

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• For us the great men are not those who solved the problems, but those whodiscovered them.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Men, Problem

  Albert Schweitzer (2012). “The Quest of the Historical Jesus”, p.159, Courier Corporation

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• To deny that human beings are filled with anti-social passions betrays a denial of reality and a lack of self-awareness. One has to be taught nonsense for a great many formative years to believe it.

  Dennis Prager

  Believe, Passion, Reality

  Dennis Prager (2016). “A Dark Time in America”, p.8, Creators Publishing

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• Most women are not programmed to prefer a great career to a great man and a family. They feel they were sold a bill of goods at college and by the media.

  Dennis Prager

  College, Men, Media

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• A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Men, Ordinary, May

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• All great men have declared that they owe their sucess to the aid and encouragement of some brilliant woman.

  O. Henry

  Encouragement, Sucess, Brilliant

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• The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Names, Fancy

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• The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

  Confucius

  Men, Deeds, Prodigals

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