Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.
Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want to get something out of them, otherwise you’ll come home to me with a full belly and an empty purse.
I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.
First at the outset, let me commend the great men and women of the United States Coast Guard for what they do.
It wasn’t until I did a musical revue in Paris in the 1980s called ‘Black and Blue,’ and met the great men and women responsible for the progress of tap dance, that my relationship with the dance really began.
It’s rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it’s Hemingway, Van Gogh… Robert Schumann has been mentioned… Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath… some of them with rather grim ends.
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.
Great men marry great women.
Great men show politeness in a particular way; a smile suffices to assure you that you are welcome, and keep about their avocations as if you were a member of the family.
It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.
Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season. All great men of letters have therefore been enthusiastic walkers.
Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force – that thoughts rule the world.
Lives of great men oft remind us as we o’er their pages turn, That we too may leave behind us – Letters that we ought to burn.
Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Great hopes make great men.
I have labored to make the record of the great men of my time.
The reward of great men is that, long after they have died, one is not quite sure that they are dead.
What we usually do to great men and women is relegate them to homogenised heroism. Their words and actions become soundbites and images in a way that gives us an excuse not to act bravely in our own lives.
Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Measured by any standard, white or black, Washington must be regarded today as one of the great men of this country: and in the future he will be so honored.
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
The great untruth around which everything pivots is the idea that the defenders of these statues are the defenders of history and truth; while those who want to see them toppled or contextualised are the Huns at the gate, who would destroy national histories and bring down great men.
The more you’re at Alabama, you grow as a person and as a player learning from great coaches and great men and just growing with your teammates.
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