Famous Quotes
- The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
- Pablo Neruda on Great
- 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.
- Theodore Roosevelt on Great
- The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Great
- The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.
- Blaise Pascal on Great
- 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.
- Sigmund Freud on Great
- 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.
- William Butler Yeats on Great
- The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
- Thomas Jefferson on Great
- 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.
- Alexis De Tocqueville on Great
- The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.
- 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.
- William Blake on Great
- The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
- Thomas Carlyle on Great
- The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.
- The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
- Demetri Martin on Great
- The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Great
- 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.
- Condoleezza Rice on Great
- 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.
- Robert Frost on Great
- 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.
- Henry Van Dyke on Great
- 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.
- John Ruskin on Great
- The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.
- Ernest Hemingway on Great
- The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.
- William Osler on Great
- 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.
- Malcolm Gladwell on Great
- The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
- George Bernard Shaw on Great
- 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.
- George Whitefield on Great
- The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
- Lord Byron on Great
- The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.
- M. Scott Peck on Great
- 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.
- Walt Whitman on Great
- 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.
- Andrew Jackson on Great
- The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.
- Pope John Paul II on Great
- The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.
- Winston Churchill on Great
- The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.
- Milton Friedman on Great
- The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.
- George Santayana on Great
- The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Francis Bacon on Great
- 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.
- George Orwell on Great
- The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy on Great
- The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
- Ray Bradbury on Great
- The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
- Basil Hume on Great
- The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
- Meryl Streep on Great
- The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
- The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
- Stanley Kubrick on Great
- The great object is that every man be armed.
- Patrick Henry on Great
- The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
- Jean Baudrillard on Great
- 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.
- Samuel Butler on Great
- The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on Great
- 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?'
- Sigmund Freud on Great
- The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
- Otto Von Bismarck on Great
- 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.
- Lewis Thomas on Great
- The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer on Great
- The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
- Doris Lessing on Great
- 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.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Great
- The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
- Madeleine L'Engle on Great
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