Great Men Quotes - Page 36

• ... a great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.

  Fannie Ellsworth Newberry

  Prayer, Blessing, World

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• These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.

  Peter Straub

  Book, Childhood, Experts

  "PETER STRAUB: Connoisseur of Fear". Interview with Paula Guran, www.darkecho.com. June 1997.

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• If you read the biography of any great man, you will always notice two things: His mother's contribution in his progress and his teacher's contribution in his growth and development.

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Mother, Teacher

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• Salary is not life- be it fifty-hundred-thousand or five thousand rupees. Every great man gives the credit of his development to his teacher. What else can bring more happiness for a teacher?

  Narendra Modi

  Education, Teacher, Men

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• In the lives of great men, neither did fate give up, NOR DID THEY.

  Satish Kumar

  Motivational, Giving Up, Fate

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• It was the United States of America in the cold late spring of 1967, and the market was steady and the G.N.P. high and a great many articulate people seemed to have a sense of high social purpose and it might have been a spring of brave hopes and national promise, but it was not, and more and more people had the uneasy apprehension that it was not.

  Joan Didion

  Spring, America, People

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Mar 21, 2015

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• The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself.

  Theodor Herzl

  Grateful, Home, Son

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• Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.

  Mencius

  Men, Littles, Little Man

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• I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, "Let's use the missiles." They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Peace, Military, War

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• The stage can be defined as a place where Shakespeare murdered Hamlet and a great many Hamlets murdered Shakespeare.

  Robert Morse

  Art, Entertainment, Stage

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• I have visited many countries, and have been in cities without number, yet never did I enter a town which could not produce ten or twelve little great men; all fancying themselves known to the rest of the world, and complimenting each other upon their extensive reputation.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Men, Cities

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “The citizen of the world”, p.217

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• There are a great many of these accusers, and they have been accusing me now for a great many years, and what is more, they approached you at the most impressionable age, when some of you were children or adolescents; and literally won their case by default, because there was no one to defend me.

  Socrates

  Children, Accusing Me, Years

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• Poetry is concerned with using with abusing, with losing
  with wanting, with denying with avoiding with adoring
  with replacing the noun. It is doing that always
  doing that, doing that and doing nothing but that.
  Poetry is doing nothing but using losing refusing and
  pleasing and betraying and caressing nouns. That is
  what poetry does, that is what poetry has to do no
  matter what kind of poetry it is. And there are a
  great many kinds of poetry.

  Gertrude Stein

  Poetry, Doe, Nouns

  Gertrude Stein (1998). “Writings, 1903-1932: Q.E.D., Three lives, Portraits and other short works, The autobiography of Alice B. Toklas”

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• A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

  Rebecca West

  Change, Drama, Play

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.16, Open Road Media

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• Nations, like families, have great men only in spite of themselves. They do everything in their power not to have any. And therefore, the great man, in order to exist, must possess a force of attack which is greater than the force of resistance developed by millions of people.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Greatness, Order

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• A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or trust him with powers to subvert their institutions, in all these cases they are unfit for liberty.

  John Stuart Mill

  Men, Feet, People

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.184, Oxford University Press, USA

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• How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead,
  The great man humbled, the haughty brought to dust?

  Conrad Aiken

  Men, Dust, Magnificence

  Conrad Aiken (1961). “Selected Poems”, p.36, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Perhaps Samuel Johnson was a great man; he was certainly a drumbling one.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Johnson

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

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• Pride is a fault that great men blush not to own: it is the ennobled offspring of self-love; though, it must be confessed, grave and pompous vanity, Iike a fat plebeian in a rove of office, does very often assume its name.

  Joanna Baillie

  Pride, Men, Names

  Joanna Baillie (1851). “The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume”, p.209

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• An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.

  Paul Valery

  Attitude, Mind, Growing

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• For centuries, dreams have been used to communicate instruction and direction to people of purpose - great men and women.  God used dreams to prepare Joseph for his future as a leader of nations.  He gave battle plans to Gideon in a dream.  Joan of Arc, Jacob, George Washington, Marie Curie, and the apostle Paul were all guided by their dreams.

  Andy Andrews

  Motivational, Dream, Greatness

  Andy Andrews (2009). “Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions”, p.24, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I love and honour [Paulus Aemilius, in Plutarch's Lives], for his fondness for his children, which instead of blushing at, he avows and glories in: and that at an age, when almost all the heros and great men thought that to make their children and family a secondary concern, was the first proof of their superiority and greatness of soul.

  Fanny Burney

  Children, Hero, Greatness

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• Great men have been characterized by the greatness of their mistakes as well as by the greatness of their achievements.

  Abraham Myerson

  Mistake, Greatness, Men

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• Johnson is wise, Boswell foolish; Johnson warns and abstains, Boswell plunges; Johnson is rather a great man writing than a greatwriter, Boswell is a great writer and an ordinary man; and they are two of a kind, abysmal melancholics and compulsive socializers, afraid of solitude and afraid of death and dissolution, victims of themselves, meant for each other, needing each other, needing evidence and arguments (Boswell is a lawyer, Johnson magisterially dictates to him some of his briefs), making beautiful models of rational discourse out of the useful substance of all they know.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Friendship, Beautiful, Wise

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• What's so great about making television is that it's a collaborative beast. It's created by a great many hands belonging to a great many people.

  Vince Gilligan

  Hands, People, Television

  Source: collider.com

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