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However glorious an action in itself it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Category: Great

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
  • 2. A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age he dies of being a man.
  • 3. For a man who has compared himself to Theodore Roosevelt and the nation's challenges to those of the Gilded Age Obama put forward a tepid agenda.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I just did a part in 'Sin City 2.' I got to do a scene with Ray Liotta. Amazing man extraordinary gentleman who was just so kind to me… I'm so excited about that I think it's gonna be very cool.
  • 2. When you have confidence you can have a lot of fun. And when you have fun you can do amazing things.
  • 3. I'm so happy to have been a part of that process and I would go straight back into the desert in a ton of chain mail for Ridley any day of the week. He's an amazing director and I can't wait to see the long version.

3 Anger

  • 1. Our humor turns our anger into a fine art.
  • 2. I am ready to accept all accusations allegations anger – but I have to succeed.
  • 3. So many women keep their anger inside and let it build until they explode and then people blow them off again.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. You will reciprocally promise love loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today before God you formulate.
  • 2. Mr. Speaker I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1 2006.
  • 3. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.

5 Architecture

  • 1. I like things that are kind of eclectic when one thing doesn't go with another. That's why I love Rome. The town itself is that way. It's where Fascist architecture meets classic Renaissance where the ancient bangs up against the contemporary. It has a touch of everything. That's my style and that's what my work is about.
  • 2. I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture as long as they are done properly.
  • 3. Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
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