Top 1200 Behind Every Great Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

We have more to learn today from the spectacle of a great man at a great moment than from any number of monographs on ancient wage levels.

It's great to win the British title. I wanted to control the fight behind my jab and then land the right hand.

Man is indeed lost, but that does not mean that he is nothing. We must resist humanism, but to make a man a zero is not the right way to resist it ... [The] Christian position is that man is made in the image of God and even though he is now a sinner, he can do things that are tremendous - he can influence history for this life and the life to come, for himself and for others...From the biblical viewpoint, man is lost, but great.

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me.

Behind every morsel of bread, fruits, or meat is a large amount of transformed fossil fuels.

To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime.

Tom Brady is a great quarterback, he's a great player, and what you've seen with him is he's gotten better every year.

Aren't we all dreamers? It's only because man dreamt of flying that we are travelling in planes. Behind all inventions, we see the dreams of people.

Catty is not cool. I can't think of anything less becoming than a man who talks about people behind their backs.

Success is in the student, not in the university; greatness is in the individual, not in the library; power is in the man, not in his crutches. A great man will make opportunities, even out of the commonest and meanest situations. If a man is not superior to his education, is not larger than his crutches or his helps, if he is not greater than the means of his culture, which are but the sign-boards pointing the way to success, he will never reach greatness. Not learning, not culture alone, not helps and opportunities, but personal power and sterling integrity, make a man great.

If we all knew how to make that jump from good to great then I think every song would be great.

After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire." If only I were as eloquent as Mr. de la Rochefoucauld...I miss you, I miss you, I miss you. And I want you. And I need your kiss. And your touch on my skin like a man needs water. Always.

There is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back.

My success is that I have these two great cultures behind me. One is Italian. I've continued to nurture that. But I also feel very American.

If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him; let us worship God through Jesus if we must - if ignorance has so far prevailed that this name can still be spoken in all seriousness without being taken as a synonym for rapine and carnage. Every sensible man, every honourable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.

And when I raised myself to look at the man who'd spoken, I had a feeling of leaving my misery behind me there on the stone wall.

A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.

Every generation has their favorite Spider-Man television show. For a lot of us, it's the one that has the song, 'Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can.'

Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.

I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.

The development of a child is guaranteed in his curiosity to discover the cause behind each and every incident.

St. Andrews by far is my favorite golf course in the world. It's where the game all started, it's why we have 18 holes instead of 22 and I think the history behind St. Andrews is amazing. There is no other golf course in the world that can say that every great player who has ever played the game has played that golf course.

I've put it all on the line every time, win, lose, or draw, and that's what I want to be left behind in my legacy.

Cardinal Mazarin was a great knave, but no great man; much more cunning than able; scandalously false and dirtily greedy.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say, for one, that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow-men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition is yet to be developed.

If behind the erratic gunfire of the press the author felt that there was another kind of criticism, the opinion of people readingfor the love of reading, slowly and unprofessionally, and judging with great sympathy and yet with great severity, might this not improve the quality of his work? And if by our means books were to become stronger, richer, and more varied, that would be an end worth reaching.

Every man is indeed bound to do what he can to promote the good of others, and a man who is of no use to anyone is strictly worthless.

I know my first years sitting on the bench, largely behind Rickey Green, was a great learning tool for me.

I want to do the Atletico fans proud and hope that they will get behind me - together we can achieve great things.

A man may be a great statesman, and yet dislike his wife, and like somebody else's. A man may be a great hero, and yet he may have an unseemly passion, or an unpaid tailor. But the British public does not understand this. ... It thinks, unhappily or happily as you may choose to consider, that genius should keep the whole ten commandments. Now, genius is conspicuous for breaking them.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

You just can't walk into a venue, sit behind your drums, and expect to play a great show. It'll never happen.

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.

Whatever the soul chooses to love, it will resemble. And therefore what we choose to love is important: Love is the force behind every level of existence. There is some good in every attraction, but there is a process of refining attraction, of choosing what to love, so that we are energized by a wider, purer love

Then I felt that every inflection of my voice, every word in my mouth, was a lie, a play whose sole purpose was to cover emptiness and boredom. There was only one way I could avoid a state of despair and a breakdown. To be silent. And to reach behind the silence for clarity or at least try to collect the resources that might still be available to me.

I don't know the science behind climate change. I can't say one way or another what is the direct impact, whether it's man-made or not.

Every great film should seem new every time you see it.

Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.

A guilty man is punished as an example for the mob; an innocent man convicted is the business of every honest citizen.

Reality confronts man with a great many musts, but all of them are conditional the formula of realistic necessity is You must, if and the if stands for man's choice

In every winter's heart there is a quivering spring, and behind the veil of each night there is a shining dawn.

Don't be afraid of missing opportunities. Behind every failure is an opportunity somebody wishes they had missed.

It's good to leave behind all that is comfortable and known every so often. It opens one's mind to the wide world.

I would like to believe every man is a one-woman man.

Every child has potential. Every child can succeed. No child should be left out or left behind.

Arnold Schwarzenegger is now governor of California. He is a very shrewd man - he already has all of his sex scandals behind him.

Here, my dear Lucy, hide these books. Quick, quick! Fling "Peregrine Pickle" under the toilette -throw "Roderick Random" into the closet -put "The Innocent Adultery" into "The Whole Duty of Man"; thrust "Lord Aimworth" under the sofa! cram "Ovid" behind the bolster; there -put "The Man of Feeling" into your pocket. Now for them.

It is better to be nothing than a follower of other painters. The wise man has said when one follows another one is always behind.

Like every person, every thought has the potential to become something great.

The materialistic idealism that governs American life, that on the one hand makes a chariot of every grocery wagon, and on the other a mere hitching post of every star, lets every man lead a very enticing double life.

There is no man alone, because every man is a Microcosm, and carries the whole world about him.

He has given me several blockbuster albums in all these years, and DSP is the man behind many of the best songs in my career.

Every striker has their way of playing and their strengths and a different team behind them. That is very important.

There's a pretty woman for ever lucky man in the world: every man in the world is a lucky man if he only knew it, so why waste time?

If you are a seer, whenever you meet a man you will see all that he owns, ay, and much that he pretends to disown, behind him.

I am not tragically colored. There is no great sorrow dammed up in my soul, nor lurking behind my eyes. I do not mind at all.

No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed.