Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

William Gilmore Simms

Distinction is an eminence that is attained but too frequently at the expense of a fireside.

Robert Ringer

The bolder the action, the greater the genius, magic and power that is likely to flow from it.

Robert Ley

Catastrophe was only narrowly averted. It was all due to the faith of one man! Yes, you who called us godless, we found our faith in Adolf Hitler, and through him found God once again. That is the greatness of our day, that is our good fortune!

Sanford I. Weill

From the business point of view, always encouraging the people in our company to own stock in the company, and if we're going to build something great, to have a lot of people share in the benefits of that greatness.

Samuel Johnson

The business of the biographer is often to pass slightly over those performances and incidents which produce vulgar greatness, to lead the thoughts into domestic privacies, and display the minute details of daily life, were exterior appendages are cast aside, and men excel each other only by prudence and virtue.

Will Smith

The way I like to measure greatness is... How many people can you make want to be better?

Will Smith

Greatness exists in all of us.

Saint Augustine

The arrogance is not greatness but swelling; and the swelling seems big but it's not healthy.

Plato

The good man is the only excellent musician, because he gives forth a perfect harmony not with a lyre or other instrument but with the whole of his life.

Gerald Johnson

I think we'll pull through this, ... Real Men Pray Everyday.

Jane Fonda

I was a chameleon, the woman men wanted me to be.

Raquel Cassidy

I went to see 'Men In Black 2.' It was just a commodity, just money being shifted.

William Wilberforce

Can you tell a plain man the road to heaven? Certainly, turn at once to the right, and then go straight forward.

William Wilberforce

Men of authority and influence may promote good morals. Let them in their several stations encourage virtue. Let them favor and take part in any plans which may be formed for the advancement of morality.

William Wilberforce

Sulky labor, and the labor of sorrow are little worth: if you could only shed tranquility over the conscience and infuse joy into the soul, you would do more to make the man a thorough worker than if you could lend him the force of Hercules, or the hundred arms of Briareus.

Allan Carr

I'm just generally hugely frustrated, I'm a very, very frustrated man. I'm just a ball of pent-up frustration.

Abbott L. Lowell

There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question.

John Hume

He knows details about the machine ... this is model X and why. That shows a really involved collector.

Katherine Collins

He refused to elaborate; he wouldn't give any details as to what that meant.

Robert Esche

He's a great man. I like him a lot. Obviously, stuff will come out. I don't really know the details of it. But I do know he is a good man.

James Mitchell

I think that's going to be probably one of the major stumbling blocks. Some of the details we're going to have to work out.

Dave Lockett

There aren't any details to discuss at this time. We're expecting that the team will go to the White House some time in the spring. As we get more information, we'll pass it along.

Jack Levin

We make celebrities out of serial killers. They're glamorized and romanticized. People forget about the gruesome details of their crimes.

Barbara Saunders

I don't know all of the details yet. Put me at that table, and I will be your voice.

William Feather

Beware of the person who can't be bothered by details.

William Strunk, Jr.

The surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definitive, and concrete. The greatest writers - Homer, Dante, Shakespeare - are effective largely because they deal in particulars and report the details that matter. Their words call up pictures.