Quotes About Great

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Newton died in 1727, and therefore did not live to see the great longitude prize awarded at last, four decades later, to the self-educated maker of an oversized pocket watch.

The art of resting the mind and the power of dismissing from it all care and worry is probably one of the secrets of our great men. —Capt. J. A. Hatfield

Read again or hear a great actor speak aloud Lincoln's Gettysburg Address[141] – only this time envision he's talking to you, right now. No squinting. No adjustments or allowances for time or context. Simply talking exactly to and about us, right now. It's shockingly pertinent. "Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

Think of the old cliché about the mind being 'an excellent servant but a terrible master'. This, like many clichés, so lame & banal on the surface, actually expresses a great & terrible truth.

It Was a Great Marvel That He Was in the Father without Knowing Him

I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do—a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.

Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, Captain Gower. What call you the town's name where Alexander the Pig was born! GOWER- Alexander the Great. FLUELLEN- Why, I pray you, is not pig great? the pig, or the great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the magnanimous, are all one reckonings, save the phrase is a little variations.

Let's make us med'cines of our great revenge, To cure this deadly grief.

I do not suppose that at any moment of history has the agony of the world been so great or widespread. Tonight the sun goes down on more suffering than ever before in the world.

Good and great are seldom in the same man.

the famous lines of Longfellow: Sail on, O ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate.

It proved conclusively the great accuracy of naval fire, provided good observation could be obtained.

There's nothing like the discovery of an unknown work by a great thinker to set the intellectual community atwitter and cause academics to dart about like those things one sees when looking at a drop of water under a microscope.

What passion today with Lee. She's a volcano. It was a totally fulfilling experience... Just as I dreamed it would be. (nodding slightly as he takes off his slippers) That's what it was. It was like living out a dream...a great dream.

The words of the social critic Eric Hoffer were ringing true: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.

I get to meet fantastic people, and I get to go through so many emotions. For me, I have a craving for that. When I'm acting, I feel great. It's not to be famous.

Hi, I'm Claire and I'm passonate about helping people find great bargains online so thats why I started bestsellers.bargains - I also love walks and hanging out with my two dogs.

As Primo Levi was to warn the world after the Holocaust, it will always be in the interests of the perpetrators, after a great crime is identified, to say that they, too, were helplessly caught up in it, and also suffered. But Ordzhonokidze was saying more that that.

In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.

Only the demented would not have raised their hands in the great hall. They had exchanged fear for insanity".

Henry is a man of great endowments, lacking only consistency, reason and sense.

man of great endowments, lacking only consistency, reason and sense.

There is a pause, while she turns the great pages of her volume of rage, and puts her finger on just the right word. 'What you say, Cromwell, is…contemptible.