Famous Quotes

"All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."

Marya Mannes on Great

More quotes about Great

• "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Great

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

  Albert Einstein on Great

• "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

  William Shakespeare on Great

• "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great

• "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

  Winston Churchill on Great

More quotes by Marya Mannes

• "For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves."

• "In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude."

• "It is not enough to show people how to live better: there is a mandate for any group with enormous powers of communication to show people how to be better."

• "The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality."

• "The earth we abuse and the living things we kill will, in the end, take their revenge for in exploiting their presence we are diminishing our future."