Quotes About Great

The Arab and Islamic nation has lost a great man and one of its fearless men who dedicated his life to the service of the people of this nation and their aspirations.

His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles, damn the men that run the shops, oh, damn their measured merriment.

My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy.

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance, and never to keep his word.

It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.

Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.

A lot of great art comes from the Afro-American male experience. Black men are geniuses, and many times their desperation, their position as being pariahs, leads them to great originality.

The little and short sayings of nice And excellent men are of great value, like the dust of gold, or the least sparks of diamonds.

If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property

Yeah, I don't think you can live anywhere else - it's such a great city [New York]. L.A. is kind of a necessary evil, but man, I love going back to New York.

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

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

X-Men is massive, like nothing I've ever experienced. But great in its own way.

Pennsylvania, the state that has produced two great men: Benjamin Franklin of Massachusetts, and Albert Gallatin of Switzerland.

Passion is begotten of passion, and it easily happens, as with the children of great men, that the base is the offspring of the noble.

Great art is precisely that which never was, nor will be taught, it is preeminently and finally the expression of the spirits of great men.

No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.

My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.

I think, like Ronald Reagan, in another way, in a secular way, John Paul II was a great communicator, but he was also a man of deep conviction.

Yeah, we try to get the best musicians possible, and Justin [Robinson] is a great musician, man, a great player. You must have been surprised to see him out there, then.