Famous Quotes
- 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.
- Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Great
- Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
- Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Great
- Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
- Oscar Wilde on Great
- Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Great
- 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.
- Donald Trump on Great
- 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.
- Paulo Coelho on Great
- 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.
- 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.
- H. L. Mencken on Great
- 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.
- William Bartram on Great
- Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great
- One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.
- James K. Polk on Great
- One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.
- 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.
- Aldous Huxley on Great
- 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.
- Christopher Hitchens on Great
- 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.
- Barack Obama on Great
- 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.
- Zack De La Rocha on Great
- One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
- Martin Luther King, Jr. on Great
- 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.
- Henry Ford on Great
- One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
- Mother Teresa on Great
- One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great
- Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Great
- Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.
- Denis Diderot on Great
- Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert Kennedy on Great
- 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.
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld on Great
- Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
- Irving Berlin on Great
- 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.
- Saint Augustine on Great
- Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
- Chuck Palahniuk on Great
- Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Great
- 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.
- William Butler Yeats on Great
- Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
- Khalil Gibran on Great
- Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
- Edmund Burke on Great
- People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero on Great
- People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.
- Joel Osteen on Great
- 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.
- Donald Trump on Great
- People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen on Great
- People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Great
- People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov on Great
- People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Great
- Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Great
- Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?
- Chuck Palahniuk on Great
- Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
- 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.
- Rush Limbaugh on Great
- Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.
- John Adams on Great
- Power is the great aphrodisiac.
- Henry A. Kissinger on Great
- Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
- Dag Hammarskjold on Great
- 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.
- 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.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Great
- Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
- E. B. White on Great
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