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greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
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.
greatness men
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.
greatness men too-much
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.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
greatness shy enough
You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough Chris Colfer
greatness men yams
You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men. Chinua Achebe
greatness where-you-are depends
Greatness depends on where you are coming from. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
greatness bears mark
The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark. Dave Chappelle
vocabulary disease opponents
In the vocabulary of certain radical theorists contradictions are given the status of some deadly disease to which their opponents alone can succumb. But contradictions are the very stuff of life. If there had been a little dash of contradiction among the Gadarene swine some of them might have been saved from drowning.
vocabulary matter building
Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using. David Crystal
vocabulary biting opinion
My opinion was that if hogs are biting you so often that you have to stop and make up a specific word for it, maybe lack of vocabulary is not your most pressing problem. Charles Frazier
vocabulary use cult
Cults use our vocabulary, but they don't use our dictionary. Charles R. Swindoll
vocabulary going-away trying
Please, don't torture me with cliches. If you're going to try to intimidate me, have the courtesy to go away for a while, acquire a better education, improve your vocabulary, and come back with some fresh metaphors. Dean Koontz
vocabulary language drawbacks
I find vocabulary to be a great drawback. Elizabeth Taylor
vocabulary entrepreneur taught
The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values. Edward Abbey
vocabulary
Humor is not far from my vocabulary. Edward Herrmann
vocabulary mortality hermes
Antiquity breached mortality with myths. Narcissus is vocabulary. Hermes decorates A cornice on the Third National Bank. Allen Tate
phrases fit educated
I have been, as the phrase is, liberally educated, and am fit for nothing. Charles Dickens
phrases uncertain temper
…a lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper --a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
phrases fancy virtue
There are few things more wearisome in a fairly fatiguing life than the monotonous repetition of a phrase which catches and holds the public fancy by virtue of its total lack of significance. Agnes Repplier
phrases speech accepted
Neatness of phrase is so closely akin to wit that it is often accepted as its substitute.
phrases used wells
Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious. Ben Affleck
phrases selling form
Telling is not selling; never make a statement if you can phrase it in the form of a question. Brian Tracy
phrases may said
You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I’m wrong, but I don’t have the courage to say so. Daniel Handler
phrases repetition again-and-again
a meaningless phrase repeated again and again begins to resemble truth. Barbara Kingsolver
phrases annoying told-you-so
There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.' Ayelet Waldman