Great Quotes - page 97

Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
France will always be a great nation. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
To listen to the interests of all, marks an ordinary government; to foresee them, marks a great government. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
A man is a better citizen of the United States for being also a loyal citizen of his state, and of his city; for being loyal to his family, and to his profession or trade; for being loyal to his college or his lodge. ... For only through the ennobling effect of its strivings can we develop the best that is in us and give to this country the full benefit of our great inheritance. View quote
Louis Brandeis
I told them that my grandfather had died in the Great Crash of 1929 - a stockbroker jumped out of a window and crushed him and his pushcart down below. (Mario Cuomo)
I've always been after the trappings of great luxury. But all I've got hold of are the trappings of great poverty. I've got hold of the wrong load of trappings, and a rotten load they are too, ones I could have very well done without. View quote
Peter Cook
I would like to like to make one thing clear at the very outset and that is, when you speak of a train robbery, this involved no loss of train, merely what I like to call the contents of the train, which were pilfered. We haven't lost a train since 1946, I believe it was - the year of the great snows when we mislaid a small one. View quote
Peter Cook
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time. View quote
Hippocrates
I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem. View quote
Bill Gates
Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things. View quote
Bill Gates
Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of man 1,000 years or 1,000 centuries ago; the fixity of species, or the slow and progressive transformation of one species into another; the eternity of matter; the idea of a God unnecessary: such are some of the questions that humanity discusses nowadays. View quote
Louis Pasteur
The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it. View quote
E. W. Howe
The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty, and can never be restrained but by despotic governments. View quote
George Mason
Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes. View quote
George Mason
Ah, great it is to believe the dream as we stand in youth by the starry stream; But a greater thing is to fight life through, and at the end, 'The dream is true!' (Edwin Markham)
A great artist is a great man in a great child. View quote
Victor Hugo
The earth is a great piece of stupidity. View quote
Victor Hugo
Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous. View quote
Victor Hugo
Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine. View quote
Victor Hugo