Greatest Quotes (page 51)

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• waiting
• struggle
• party

The party that leans upon the workers but serves the bourgeoisie, in the period of the greatest sharpening of the class struggle, cannot but sense the smells wafted from the waiting grave. Leon Trotsky

• him
• appearance
• appearances

but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence. Leo Tolstoy

• feeling
• look
• heart

Our love of lockstep is our greatest curse, the source of all that bedevils us. It is the source of homophobia, xenophobia, racism, sexism, terrorism, bigotry of every variety and hue, because it tells us there is one right way to do things, to look, to behave, to feel, when the only right way is to feel your heart hammering inside you and to listen to what its timpani is saying. A. Whitney Brown

• hand
• knowledge
• baby

But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does not wail the next, that brings the worst shame to me, the greatest indifference to annihilation. I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering. I ought never to have taken my lantern to see what was going on in the hut by the granary. On the other hand, there was no way, once I had picked up the lantern,... J. M. Coetzee

• family
• my family
• saying

You say we could lose our lives for this child. I would consider that the greatest honor that could come to my family. Corrie Ten Boom

• fall
• sharing
• manly

...inasmuch as every man takes the sufferings that fall to his share as the greatest. Herman Hesse

• god
• best
• joy

Our task is to become our best selves. One of God's greatest gifts to us is the joy of trying again, for no failure ever need be final. Thomas S. Monson

• snow
• started
• finest

The greatest blizzards start with the finest snow. Mark Helprin

• courage
• bored
• tears

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer. Viktor E. Frankl

• him
• sharing
• rich

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli

• eyes
• life
• people

All my life one of my greatest desires has been to travel-to see and touch unknown countries, to swim in unknown seas, to circle the globe, observing new lands, seas, people, and ideas with insatiable appetite, to see everything for the first time and for the last time, casting a slow, prolonged glance, then to close my eyes and feel the riches deposit themselves inside me calmly or stormily according to their pleasure, until time passes them at last through its fine sieve, straining the... Nikos Kazantzakis

• evening
• evenings
• horrors

From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent. H. P. Lovecraft

• blessed
• giving
• earth

Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings - give us that precious jewel and you may take everything else! Patrick Henry

• passion
• clever
• manly

Passion often makes a madman of the cleverest man, and renders the greatest fools clever. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• space
• enough is enough
• ultimate

It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it. Life is long enough, and it has been given in sufficiently generous measure to allow the accomplishment of the very greatest things if the whole of it is well invested. But when it is squandered in luxury and carelessness, when it is devoted to no good end, forced at last by the ultimate necessity we perceive that it has passed away before we were aware that it was passing. Lucius Annaeus Seneca