Famous Quotes

"It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of."

Willa Cather 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 Willa Cather

• "Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen."

• "There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm."

• "I shall not die of a cold. I shall die of having lived."

• "Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything."

• "The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter."