Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Dickens

The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.

Charles Dickens

So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...

Charles Dickens

But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Dickens

Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Aries Spears

To sustain longevity, you have to evolve.

Alonzo Mourning

My health is the No. 1 concern and my longevity is the No. 1 concern.

Julia Child

(On what her longevity is attributed to) Red meat and gin.

Chad Knaus

We've got longevity to stay here and do whatever it is we need to do to win the championship. That's something a lot of places don't have.

Gary Grant

I would like to think that Congressman Leach's longevity is attributed to his thoughtful, intelligent representation of his constituents.

Jennifer Anderson

Those are the most successful people if they go to a class. When they come and just want to do a machine, sometimes the longevity isn't as much.

Eric Close

A lot of factors go into the longevity of a show.

Ray Ferrara

You might want to take an annuity if you have super longevity in your family.

Scott DeJong

It's a tribute to the success and longevity of his career.

Alex Gibney

But it still serves as a primer for everyone who's watching the trial.

George Stroumboulopoulos

If an interview just serves the idea of celebrity, then I think that sucks. I don't want to do that.

Ryan Martin

I was just trying to keep my serves inbound. I wasn't really going for aces.

Steven Smith

We don't feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students.

Steve Smith

We do not feel that this kind of publication serves the university well or the students.

Nancy Stern

We had a lot of reinforcing in the basement. It took several years to get it where we wanted it, but it serves us well.

Lionel Blue

Some of the parables of the Kingdom made wonderful sense, but the exclusivity in the New Testament put me off.

Clay Matthews III

We put a lot of pride into our work, and to have it show on Sundays is a testament to all the work we've put in.

Henry David Thoreau

You don't know your testament when you see it.

Camille Paglia

The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.

Edith Wharton

traditions that have lost their meaning are the hardest of all to destroy.

Carlos Fuentes

There is no creation without tradition. No one creates from nothing.

Charles Rosen

The death of classical music is perhaps its oldest continuing tradition.

Boozoo Chavis

I keep up the tradition, the zydeco.

Auguste Comte

The dead govern the living.

Allan Bloom

As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.

Edmund Burke

Custom reconciles us to everything.

Anthony Daniels

It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.