Famous Quotes
- What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
- Andy Warhol on Great
- 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.
- Henry Ford on 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.
- Charles Dickens on Great
- When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.
- Calvin Coolidge on Great
- When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
- When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
- Francis Bacon on Great
- When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.
- George Eliot on Great
- 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.
- Robert Louis Stevenson on Great
- 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.
- Christopher Hitchens on Great
- When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
- Richard Dawkins on Great
- 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.
- Elisha Cuthbert on Great
- When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'
- Mitt Romney on Great
- When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.
- Friedrich Nietzsche on Great
- When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.
- Honore De Balzac on Great
- When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
- Napoleon Bonaparte on Great
- When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.
- William Shakespeare on Great
- When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
- George Eliot on Great
- When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
- Princess Diana on Great
- 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.
- Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
- Niccolo Machiavelli on Great
- Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
- Willa Cather on Great
- Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.
- Samuel Richardson on Great
- 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.
- Saint Augustine on Great
- Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
- Lewis Carroll on Great
- Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.
- Niccolo Machiavelli on Great
- Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.
- Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.
- Martha Gellhorn on Great
- 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.
- Henry Rollins on Great
- Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
- Wilma Rudolph on Great
- Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca on Great
- Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
- Charles Spurgeon on Great
- With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
- Arthur Schopenhauer on Great
- 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.
- E. O. Wilson on Great
- 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.
- Anna Quindlen on Great
- Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.
- Campbell Scott on Great
- Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
- Colin Powell on Great
- You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
- Alan Watts on Great
- You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein on Great
- 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.
- Susan Powter on Great
- 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.
- James Lane Allen on Great
- You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.
- Louisa May Alcott on Great
- 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.
- Dave Chappelle on Great
- You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.
- Stevie Nicks on Great
- You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
- Henry Rollins on Great
- 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.
- John Keats on Great
- You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.
- Billy Corgan on Great
- 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.
- Steve Jobs on Great
- 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.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great
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