When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest ' and so forth, I switch off quite early.
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest ' and so forth, I switch off quite early.
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.
A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
He was as great as a man can be without morality.
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.
A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.
Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.
Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.
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