Great Men Quotes - Page 38

• ... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

  Mistake, Simplicity, Social

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• American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

  George Packer

  Men, Produce, American Politics

  "Ask the Author Live: George Packer". The New Yorker Live Chat, www.newyorker.com. June 18, 2010.

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• The function of traditional history is to create a citizenry that looks to the top - the president, Congress, the Supreme Court - to make the important decisions. That's what traditional history is all about: the laws that were passed, the decisions made by the court. So much of history is built around "the great men." All of that is very anti-democratic.

  Howard Zinn

  Men, Law, Decision

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• A great many people wonder why it was that Christ did not come at once to Martha and Mary, whom He loved, whenever He heard of their affliction. It was to try them, and it is the same with His dealings toward us. If He seems not to come to us in our affliction, it is only to test us.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Christian, People, Trying

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• Feminism or the family? Carried to excess maybe. I have insisted that women cannot be defined solely in those terms. But for a great many women - not all, because we are only beginning to realize and affirm the diversity of women themselves - choosing motherhood makes motherhood itself a liberating choice.

  Betty Friedan

  Motherhood, Diversity, Choices

  "LOS ANGELES TIMES INTERVIEW : Betty Friedan : Beyond the 'Feminine Mystique:' A New Era of Women's Rights". Interview with Robert Scheer, articles.latimes.com. April 26, 1992.

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• The first time I started listening to Irish music, I had a very strong connection. Strangely enough, there's a great many Japanese melodies and vocal styles that sound very much like Hungarian music. You start seeing all these cross-references and comparative, independent musical cultures.

  Tom Waits

  Strong, Independent, Style

  Source: tomwaitsfan.com

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• Hoover, if elected, will do one thing that is almost incomprehensible to the human mind: he will make a great man out of Coolidge.

  Clarence Darrow

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• If there's a big problem and you've got the right people with you, usually the answer emerges and you do what's the obvious thing to do. I don't think of myself as some great manager or great leader. I've been very lucky to be in the positions that I've been in. I meet a lot of people and I've grown a lot of companies, and I meet a lot of CEOs at big enterprises. I'm always so surprised at how much they seem to know. It doesn't always seem to be correlated to how well they actually do.

  Larry Brilliant

  Business, Thinking, Obvious Things

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• In cooking I found my mentor in this great chef, Albert Roux. I think this is a very important thing in life, to find someone who can steer you because to find it all by yourself is quite a difficult and slow process. That's not to say you won't ever get there, but to find a great coach, a great mentor, someone to show you the way and to open a few windows and doors, is a wonderful thing in life.

  Paul Rankin

  Thinking, Doors, Things In Life

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I am certain a great many believers and bible readers do believe in social justice.

  Anne Rice

  Believe, Justice, Social

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• I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men--great men-- must build monuments and seek fame?

  Karen Essex

  Children, Men, Giving

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• The lives of great men and women are miracles of patience and perseverance.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Perseverance, Men, Miracle

  Mary Baker Eddy (2000). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• For a very great many years, I asked this question: ‘To communicate or not to communicate?’ If one got himself in such thorough trouble by communication, then of course one should stop communicating. But this is not the case. If one gets himself into trouble by communicating, he should further communicate. More communication, not less, is the answer.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Communication, Years, Answers

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• Orthodox Christians have the habit of claiming all great men, all men who have held important positions, men of reputation, men of wealth. As soon as the funeral is over clergymen begin to relate imaginary conversations with the deceased, and in a very little while the great man is changed to a Christian - possibly to a saint.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Men, Funeral

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4576, Library of Alexandria

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• We have great managers who havent spent a day in management school. Do we have great surgeons that havent spent a day in surgical school?

  Henry Mintzberg

  School, Management, Great Managers

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• To be a great man it is necessary to turn to account all opportunities.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Opportunity, Men, Turns

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• I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Education, Men, Differences

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• Aesop, that great man, saw his master making water as he walked. "What!" he said, "Must we void ourselves as we run?" Use our timeas best we may, yet a great part of it will still be idly and ill spent.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Running, Time, Men

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• A wise man ought always to follow the paths beaten by great men, and to imitate those who have been supreme, so that if his ability does not equal theirs, at least it will savor of it. Let him act like the clever archers who, designing to hit the mark which yet appears too far distant, and knowing the limits to which the strength of their bow attains, take aim much higher than the mark, not to reach by their strength or arrow to so great a height, but to be able with the aid of so high an aim to hit the mark they wish to reach.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Strength, Wise, Hope

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.38, BookRix

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• Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd
  And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

  William Wordsworth

  Wisdom, Greatness, Men

  William Wordsworth (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Wordsworth (Illustrated)”, p.542, Delphi Classics

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• But the divinest poem, or the life of a great man, is the severest satire.... The greater the genius, the keener the edge of the satire.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Poetry, Genius

  Henry David Thoreau (2017). “Journeys, Adventures & Life in Harmony with Nature – 6 Book Collection (Illustrated): Including Walden, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, The Maine Woods, Cape Cod, A Yankee in Canada & Canoeing in the Wilderness - North American Highlands Series”, p.231, e-artnow

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• The great man is not convulsible or tormentable; events pass over him without much impression.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Greatness, Men, Events

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2012). “The Selected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.98, Graphic Arts Books

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• I must beg you to indulge me in the matter of hyphens.... You will find that I have marked out a great many in the proofs. We arein danger of Germanizing our printing by using them so much, and I have a very decided preference in the matter.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Style, Matter, Printing

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• The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and justly weigh every motive. For such an audience there is need neither of affectation nor of restraint. Sincerity is what they ask, detail, and volume; skill with the pen comes in conveniently, but brilliance is not necessary; genius is a hindrance even; and should you know your business and do it manfully, posterity will let you off mixing with great men, reporting famous affairs, or having lain with the first ladies in the land.

  Virginia Woolf

  Writing, Men, Land

  Virginia Woolf (1967). “Collected essays”

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• If Kitchener was not a great man, he was, at least, a great poster.

  Margot Asquith

  Men, Posters, Ifs

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