#rely

Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges. ↗

— Thomas Wentworth Higginson

#great men #isolated #men #ranges #rarely

The good news, though, is that I find in my political travels that people, as regular citizens, are more interested than ever in getting together and having discussions. They want to hear about other viewpoints that differ entirely from what the administration is putting out. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#administration #citizens #differ #discussions #entirely

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

#am #among #anywhere #assertions #cases

So too, in forming a constitution, or in enacting rules of procedure, or making canons, the people do not merely passively assent, but actively cooperate. They have, in all these matters, the same authority as the clergy. ↗

— Charles Hodge

#assent #authority #canons #clergy #constitution

The charge was left entirely to himself from midnight until the rising of the sun; and if all the shepherds in the Forest had been there to have assisted him, they could not have effected it with greater propriety. ↗

— James Hogg

#been #charge #could #effected #entirely

Not merely can people like me write things that would never have been printed before but I think an enormously dramatic change has taken place in public opinion, possibly for the wrong reasons. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#before #change #dramatic #dramatic change #enormously

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank account of knowledge is much richer. ↗

— William Holden

#aging #bank #bank account #become #grow

I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

#envy #i #me #merely #no respect

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. ↗

— Homer

#fathers #few #most #rarely #similar

If the technical innovations of the Impressionists led merely to a more accurate representation of nature, it was perhaps of not much value in enlarging their powers of expression. ↗

— Edward Hopper

#enlarging #expression #impressionists #innovations #led