- 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
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