Quotes About Great

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• Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.
• It’s hard to be humble, when you’re as great as I am.
• I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
• My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.
• As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
• Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
• I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
• It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
• You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.
• If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
• I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
• And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.
• I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
• Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
• Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
• Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
• The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
• A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
• And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.
• Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
• Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.
• Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.
• After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
• Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
• Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?
• Never was anything great achieved without danger.
• One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
• Laws control the lesser man… Right conduct controls the greater one.
• A man is great by deeds, not by birth.
• All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
• Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.
• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
• One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
• The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’
• Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
• A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
• There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
• The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
• Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish – too much handling will spoil it.
• All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
• People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
• Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn’t insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
• Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.
• The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.
• Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
• The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
• The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.
• More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill – none have wrestled without pride.
• We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.
• I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
• Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.
• One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
• It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
• All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.
• If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
• The great object is that every man be armed.
• My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
• There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.
• A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
• Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
• Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.
• Great hopes make great men.
• I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
• The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.
• Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
• Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.
• What’s right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity – intellect and resources – to do some thing about them.
• No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
• Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
• Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.
• There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
• Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
• Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
• The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.
• America’s fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.
• My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
• Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
• Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
• Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
• If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult.
• If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
• An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
• Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
• Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
• No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
• Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
• The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
• If there is not the war, you don’t get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don’t get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
• Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
• There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
• The reason we wouldn’t make a seven-inch tablet isn’t because we don’t want to hit a price point, it’s because we don’t think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.
• Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
• I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
• The system is that there is no system. That doesn’t mean we don’t have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that’s not what it’s about. Process makes you more efficient.
• To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
• Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
• One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn’t do.
• Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.
• One of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.
• As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.
• I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.
• Men are only as great as they are kind.
• Truth is, I’ll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
• There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
• Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.
• It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
• The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
• If you don’t know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.
• An index is a great leveller.
• No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.
• Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
• The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
• The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
• We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
• I always entertain great hopes.
• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?
• Love and desire are the spirit’s wings to great deeds.
• What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
• When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
• There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
• Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.
• Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
• Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
• What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
• The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
• Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness – great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
• If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened – as if somebody was trying to demote them.
• All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.
• A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
• I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
• Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
• I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll be a great actress.
• If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
• Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.
• For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.
• Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
• Being is the great explainer.
• I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
• Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
• The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don’t mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.
• Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
• Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.
• Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
• Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
• A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
• A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.
• Great acts are made up of small deeds.
• Marriage is a great institution, but I’m not ready for an institution.
• On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
• There are many people in the world who really don’t understand-or say they don’t-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!
• Rice is great if you’re really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
• Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
• Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
• I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
• I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
• It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
• To do a great right do a little wrong.
• There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them.
• I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
• Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
• Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.
• The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
• When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
• Half a truth is often a great lie.
• Life is either a great adventure or nothing.
• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
• I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
• Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.
• These are not dark days: these are great days – the greatest days our country has ever lived.
• No crime is so great as daring to excel.
• It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.
• The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy’s aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
• Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
• My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
• Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.
• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
• It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
• Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
• I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
• He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
• Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
• There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
• A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
• A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
• I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.
• Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
• Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
• A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
• A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
• We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well – to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.
• He was as great as a man can be without morality.
• Mistakes are part of the game. It’s how well you recover from them, that’s the mark of a great player.
• So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
• A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
• Great is the difference betwixt a man’s being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
• I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.
• Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.
• I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.
• Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
• Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
• The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.
• His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
• Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.
• One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.
• Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
• Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme to be sublimely great or to be nothing.
• Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.
• I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.
• When I meet people who say – which they do all of the time – ‘I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,’ and so forth, I switch off quite early.
• It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
• Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
• Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
• Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.
• The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.
• I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They’re always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat Bob Marley got heat Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you’re doing something right.
• You know, be able to do something great in your life, you’re gonna have to realize your failures. You’re gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.
• I tell students that even if they don’t like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool – a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.
• You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
• A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
• And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.
• I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn’t feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.
• Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.
• I’m surrounded by nothing but great people. I’ve been blessed with that, so really, I’ve got no choice but to be an all-around good person.
• They never fail who die in a great cause.
• Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.
• All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
• There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
• He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
• Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
• There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel there is only one home to the life of a tortoise there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?
• I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.
• I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can’t do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I’m going to do something, I go all the way.
• Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.
• I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.
• I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
• Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.
• Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.
• By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
• You’ve got to be ready to be in a great relationship.
• To me, acting is the most logical way for people’s neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
• The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.
• Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.
• The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
• I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
• The internet is a great way to get on the net.
• Life should be great rather than long.
• High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.
• He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
• For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
• Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.
• There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
• Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.
• The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
• The great tragedy of science – the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
• What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
• If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life – that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment – that would be the perfect state.
• I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.
• What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
• It’s great to be here. It’s great to be anywhere.
• It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it’s very easy to surprise people.
• Let’s face it – think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?
• It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
• Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
• Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
• I try something new every night. It’s an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It’s a great workshop for me.
• No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.
• No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.
• He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.
• Police and firefighters are great, but they don’t create wealth. They protect it. That’s crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don’t create the wealth themselves.
• Don’t get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.
• Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.
• The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
• I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you’re like, ‘What’s wrong with me?’
• The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
• When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
• The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.
• I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.
• It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
• There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.
• I don’t get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there’s always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
• Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.
• I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
• When I was 20, I thought I was 30 – but I was so far from it. When you’re young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.
• I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it’s necessary.
• Traffic was very, very free. It was great.
• Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
• I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
• If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that’s exactly what I did.
• Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis – once that crisis can be recognized and understood.
• The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.
• You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.
• I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.
• When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
• Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
• Wouldn’t it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
• The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
• Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.
• A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
• I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man’s virtues the means of deceiving him.
• I’m one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I’m waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.
• We are all faced with a series of great opportunities – brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
• Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
• Her angel’s face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
• After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
• Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.
• Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
• The essence of America – that which really unites us – is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion – it is an idea – and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.
• Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.
• Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
• Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
• It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.
• The great accomplishment of Jobs’s life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies – his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness – in the service of perfection.
• I was an OK boxer, I wasn’t great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.
• A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn’t have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.
• The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.
• The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.
• There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
• The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
• When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
• The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.
• Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
• Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.
• I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don’t encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
• Rock ‘n’ roll is ridiculous. It’s absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we’re wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
• Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
• In other words, don’t expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say ‘we have a problem, let’s go and get it’.
• We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
• There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
• Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
• Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
• Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
• I think, in a way, I invented the term ‘fight club’ and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I’ve been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.
• To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.
• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
• From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
• Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
• A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.
• A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.
• It’s a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president… except me.
• Mitt – what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he’s got a great view on China and how they’re trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.
• As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don’t ever want to lose that.
• It’s a great thing when you can show that you’ve been successful and that you’ve made a lot of money and that you’ve employed a lot of people.
• Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don’t like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this – it hurts too much.
• People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.
• So Bush certainly wasn’t the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he’s created a lot of disincentive. He’s created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It’s almost impossible to get anything done in the country.
• I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I’d love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, ‘Make America great again.’
• A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he’s going to do a great job.
• The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
• It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor’s finger.
• You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can’t be fat and healthy.
• I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.
• Great events make me quiet and calm it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
• No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
• King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
• It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
• Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.
• A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
• All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
• Great countries are those that produce great people.
• The Super Bowl isn’t for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.
• The great thing about suicide is that it’s not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.
• I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They’re incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.
• We need a great president.
• There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
• To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
• To love one that is great, is almost to be great one’s self.
• I feel good in my own skin because I’ve accepted the fact that I’m me. That’s what’s so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody’s different.
• A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
• A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
• I never wanted to become an actress because I’d read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.
• When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
• In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
• Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
• I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
• Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
• All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
• No man was ever great by imitation.
• It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.
• The great man is he who does not lose his child’s-heart.
• There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
• I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
• Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
• What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
• Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
• Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.
• Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
• The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
• We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
• That’s the great thing about a tractor. You can’t really hear the phone ring.
• Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
• The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
• I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose.
• The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.
• The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.
• As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
• Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.
• Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
• After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
• When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
• The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
• I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I’m nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.
• The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
• A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
• Americans are blessed with great plenty we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.
• Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
• As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.
• We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
• People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
• From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.
• I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it’s a great frequency and it’s great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.
• I’m sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.
• My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That’d be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
• The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
• Produce great men, the rest follows.
• The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.
• Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
• Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
• Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
• To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
• No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
• You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
• I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!
• Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
• My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
• Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
• Rugby is great. The players don’t wear helmets or padding they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.
• There is something great and terrible about suicide.
• Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.
• A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
• What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.
• If it wasn’t hard, everyone would do it. It’s the hard that makes it great.
• It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
• I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
• He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
• We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn’t think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.
• It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.
• I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
• Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
• The very greatest things – great thoughts, discoveries, inventions – have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
• Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
• The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.
• Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it.
• With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
• Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.
• No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.
• The ’20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we’re in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.
• Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.
• Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.
• I love being. There’s so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn’t it great just being?
• Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
• My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.
• On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
• Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
• Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
• They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
• Thrift is of great revenue.
• Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.
• The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
• A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.
• Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.
• The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.
• In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
• Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
• The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
• There’s a great joy in my giving. It’s thrilling. It’s exhilarating. It’s important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
• Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
• What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you’re feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin – to get stressed out.
• Great passions, my dear, don’t exist: they’re liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
• Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
• Great things are done when men and mountains meet.
• The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.
• In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.
• Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.
• Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.
• The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
• It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
• To know how to hide one’s ability is great skill.
• Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
• I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it’s like climbing a mountain or building a building. It’s a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
• The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
• There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
• However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
• I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they’re annoyed. You can tell whether they’re scared.
• Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy… or they become legend.
• Marriage is a great institution.
• The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer… form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
• Irreligion – the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
• Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.
• Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.
• If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don’t have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it’s not enough.
• There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.
• The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!
• What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
• The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
• There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.
• Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
• I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.
• There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
• The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
• Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.
• I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.
• No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
• I’ve got a great cigar collection – it’s actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn’t going to smoke every last one of ’em.
• One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
• Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother’s womb a fanatic heart.
• Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
• Nobody needs to cry for me. I’m going to be great.
• There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
• The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
• One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
• All great peoples are conservative.
• I try to read for pleasure whenever I can – it’s a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn’t get fried.
• Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
• Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.
• I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way – I hope it never will.
• See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.
• It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one’s being clever.
• The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
• It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
• The atom bomb was no ‘great decision.’ It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
• I do live like a rock star, but it’s not as great as it sounds. It’s a lot of traveling.
• When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That’s one of the great feelings – to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.
• No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.
• A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
• Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
• She’s probably in denial that she’s a great big ball of insecurity and I’m quite well aware that I am one.
• The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one’s designs to one’s means.
• A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.
• Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
• He who has great power should use it lightly.
• It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.
• The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
• Great loves too must be endured.
• There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
• I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.
• Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
• It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.
• I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.
• Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.
• The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
• The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
• To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time.
• There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
• A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
• Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
• Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
• I’ve made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.
• The past is a great place and I don’t want to erase it or to regret it, but I don’t want to be its prisoner either.
• Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
• There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
• The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
• We’re a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we’re all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that’s a marvelous thing.
• Many great actions are committed in small struggles.
• The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.
• It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
• We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
• In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
• Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.
• Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
• A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
• Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn’t worth the time and effort.
• You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
• No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
• There is no great genius without some touch of madness.
• The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
• The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
• It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
• It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
• What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.
• What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
• As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he’s a great military man, I want you to know that.
• Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I’ve got people up here who I’m really tight with, we’ve made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I’ve got people in my corner I can trust.
• The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
• Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.
• It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.
• He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he’s a great military man.
• Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
• The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
• Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
• A great fortune is a great slavery.
• Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects… totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
• Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
• A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
• Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
• There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
• Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
• Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
• It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
• Show me a great actor and I’ll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you’ve seen the devil.
• Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
• Great ideas originate in the muscles.
• The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
• The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
• On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
• The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
• The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
• The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I’m Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I’m running for president of the United States.
• Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.
• Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
• A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.
• Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
• Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
• Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
• Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
• We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
• When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
• Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
• There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.
• Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
• I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
• Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.
• Man is only great when he acts from passion.
• There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.
• I’m sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn’t on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
• A great artist is a great man in a great child.
• The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.
• Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
• Power is the great aphrodisiac.
• Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.
• When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
• I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
• I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
• It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
• In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
• One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
• No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
• I see great things in baseball. It’s our game – the American game.
• Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
• It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.
• The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
• Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
• Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
• I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don’t like that. It’s great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you’re worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.
• If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
• Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
• A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
• There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
• The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
• The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
• He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.