Alfred the Great
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I desire to leave to the men that come after me a remembrance of me in good works. ALFRED THE GREAT When the Sun
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[Fr., La montagne est passee; nous irons mieux... FREDERICK, THE GREAT (FREDERICK II) How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. ALEXANDER GREAT I am dying with the help of too many physicians. ALEXANDER GREAT Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters. ALEXANDER GREAT I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and ... ALEXANDER GREAT Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. ALEXANDER GREAT I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. ALEXANDER GREAT There is nothing impossible to him who will try. ALEXANDER GREAT Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them ... ALEXANDER GREAT I send you a kaffis of mustard seed, that you may taste and acknowledge the bitterness of my victory... ALEXANDER GREAT In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity. . ALEXANDER GREAT I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his. CATHERINE GREAT I am one of the people who love the why of things CATHERINE GREAT In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read . . . CATHERINE GREAT You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... CATHERINE GREAT If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off CATHERINE GREAT People drinking these beers enjoy the flavors and drink them a lot slower than normal beers. CATHERINE GREAT A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache. CATHERINE GREAT I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly wh... CATHERINE GREAT I praise loudly, I blame softly CATHERINE GREAT For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do ... CATHERINE GREAT The Many Trials of One Jane Doe. GREAT WHITE [To call it red would be doing a disservice to the brightest scarlet, and to call the air blue in hi... GREAT BRITAIN Once Bitten, Twice Shy. GREAT WHITE I don't have to have all of it, I had some, I'm happy. GREAT APE Andrea Tafi was the winner of the first professional bike race my wife and I ever saw in 1997 and so... GREAT BRITAIN I could have done without a long road trip to Basingstoke on the Saturday and then an overnight bus ... GREAT BRITAIN The organisers have done a fantastic job all week given the volume of traffic we have in this countr... GREAT BRITAIN GET BACK IN YOUR CAVE. GREAT BRITAIN Life. It works better if your already smart. GREAT APE Why can't I think as well as I can see? GREAT APE I think, I am a thought, that can think.
The most basic and at the same time the biggest thought pos... GREAT APE I don't want to have an opinion anymore. I can't please everyone, isn't that what they're for? GREAT APE It sounds like I'm already dead, I just don't know it yet. GREAT APE A fool and his money together again. GREAT APE I need to learn bigger words and do those (things). GREAT APE Well we are monkeys, only our eeks and ahhs sound like P's and Q's GREAT APE And the oldest birds hunt when they can see. GREAT APE I don't gamble. I take chances. I don't play with money, I play with life as I know it. GREAT APE There's a big difference between making a change and making a million. GREAT APE Avenue Q GREAT WHITE The Angel Song. GREAT WHITE Our thoughts and prayers are with those that have passed away, those that are suffering and to the f... GREAT WHITE vigilant in all parts of the country, and especially in the vicinity of potential terrorist targets. GREAT BRITAIN We realized, rather than go to the next level of garage rock, there was a whole other world out ther... GREAT BRITAIN Although Edgeworth in the preface justifies much of the work, he must admit that a sizable portion o... GREAT BRITAIN one country, two systems. GREAT BRITAIN we demonstrated that one in five elite athletes suffer from exercise-induced asthma. GREAT BRITAIN Feast of Hugh, Carthusian Monk, Bishop of Lincoln, 1200 More things are wrought by prayer Than this... ALFRED It was a symposium of horror and heroism, the like of which has not been known in the civilized worl... THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC AND GREAT SEA DISASTERS Many of those who elected to remain might have escaped. 'Chivalry' is a mild appellation for their c... THE SINKING OF THE TITANIC AND GREAT SEA DISASTERS For the hopes of men have been justly called waking dreams. SAINT BASIL (BISHOP OF CAESAREA) ("THE GREAT") ALFRED HITCHCOCK ALFRED HITCHCOCK ALFRED HITCHCOCK ALFRED HITCHCOCK ALFRED HITCHCOCK Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me. ALFRED MOLINA When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. ALFRED EISENSTAEDT ALFRED HITCHCOCK ALFRED NOBEL ALFRED ADLER ALFRED TENNYSON I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were... ALFRED MOLINA My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands ... ALFRED JODL Major markets are a key factor in advertise and budgeting decisions. ALFRED AMOROSO ALFRED HITCHCOCK ALFRED HITCHCOCK ALFRED HITCHCOCK ALFRED KAZIN
When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself 
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity until he has tasted adversity. 
Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is... 
A vulgar mind is proud in prosperity and humble in adversity. A noble mind is humble in prosperity a... 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how mis... 
A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity. 
He said, “McKinley was going around the country shouting prosperity when there was no prosperity f... 
God is not some lesser employee, as many try to make Him out to be: rather He is the ultimate Treasu... 
It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape ... 
Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. 
In the beautiful, man sets himself up as the standard of perfection; in select cases he worships him... 
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket... 
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket... 
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket ... 
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
Man is made or unmade by himself. In the armory of thought he forges the weapons by which he destroy... 
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity. 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
Throughout the centuries, man has considered himself beautiful. I rather suppose that man only belie... 
Man tends to root for the underdog, because he fears that he will find himself in that same position... 
A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and
prosperous being; and happiness, ... 
True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man. 
True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man. 
What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear... 
The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... 
The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... 
God will not suffer man to have the knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his p... 
A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to
him. 
When one takes into account also His reiterated assertions about His Divinity - such as asking us to... 
Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied h... 
You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... 
Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly ... 
To apply Kim Jong Il's patriotism means to thoroughly materialize the General's intentions a... 
The one and only formative power given to man Is thought. By his thinking he not only makes characte... 
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he de... 
When a man gets talking about himself, he seldom fails to be eloquent and often reaches the sublime. 
God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosp... 
Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He ... 
He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself 
He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with posses... 
Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... 
A person is poor because he does not possess the necessary and vital knowledge of how to grow financ... 
It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and th... 
It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the... 
If this man can express himself with the soul and the willpower that he has, even in singing, he cer... 
Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that h... 
Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He ha... 
Fool! Never wait on a man! Let him wait on himself! 
would seem as though language is the only predestination of man, and that he is created to bring it ... 
What is called family pride is often founded on the illusion of self-love. A man wishes to perpetuat... 
The best way for a man to train up a child in the way he should go is to travel that way himself. 
He is actually doing the right thing for himself because he is preserving himself in power, and he p... 
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in. 
A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him. 
It is not the level of prosperity that makes for happiness but the kinship of heart to heart and the... 
Man becomes greater in proportion to knowing himself and his faculties. Let him become conscious of ... 
beauty is often very relative, just as what is decent in Japan is indecent in Rome, and what is fash... 
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed than one in advers... 
Man, like other organisms, is so perfectly coordinated that he may easily forget, whether awake or a... 
I am endorsing Sen. Cruz because I have worked with him in the trenches, fought battles with him on ... 
To progress again, man must remake himself. And he cannot remake himself without suffering. For he i... 
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the trut... 
The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he c... 
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfac... 
Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things. 
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does... 
The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night ... 
Life is neither a glorious highlight reel nor a monstrous tragedy. Every day is a good day to live a... 
Real prosperity comes from everybody in the country working together in a growth mode. Real prosperi... 
Man is to himself the most wonderful object in nature; for he cannot conceive what the body is, stil... 
We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. 
He fell in love with himself at first sight and it is a passion to which he has always remained fai... 
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... 
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most... 
The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the nex... 
Upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. 
Our work is to present things that are as they are. 
I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
The heart itself is only a small vessel, 
How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens. 
Peace is the first thing the angels sang. 
I praise loudly, I blame softly 
For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do i... 
Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard. 
When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. 
The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man. 
For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake. 
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. 
Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey pl... 
If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied. 
No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, ... 
Theirs not to reason why, 
One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds. 