Great Quotes

Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much nee...

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of hi...

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I...

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. Th...

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a s...

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that...

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general ...

Truth is a great flirt.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisd...

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and ...

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in ...

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, hav...

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men stil...

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear alle...

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybo...

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's ...

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature ...

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.

The lesson of travel seems to be so banal, but so great, which is that people are just so amazingly ...

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or ...

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

I love children and I get along with them great. It's just that I believe if you're going to be a pa...

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our se...

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow...

I'm an advocate of the great Dr. Johnson, the English man of letters who said that patriotism was th...

All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A...

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

I seek the Will of the Spirit of God through, or in connection with, the Word of God. The Spirit and...

Tonight I should like to thank all those who have shared my work and to acknowledge the debt that I ...

A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any p...

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

We have to remember that Putin was a member of the KGB. He has already demonstrated that kind of mac...

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with coura...

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great...

Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through t...

It must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of friendship. Two men who have known each oth...

My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her...

I thank the Lord for the great principle of repentance and forgiveness.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues an...

By the end of World War II, we were the most powerful and least damaged of the great nations. We als...

My scientific studies have afforded me great gratification and I am convinced that it will not be lo...

People don't realize the great happiness there is in living to be very old and together all the time...

As communicators and marketers, people are so accustomed to thinking from the 'top down.' Finding th...

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck. Call me...

Great companies start because the founders want to change the world... not make a fast buck.

Even actresses that you really admire, like Reese Witherspoon, you think, 'Another romantic comedy?'...

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it ...

Cooking is not difficult. Everyone has taste, even if they don't realize it. Even if you're not a gr...

No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed age...

Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the...

Reading well is one of the great pleasuresthat solitude can afford you, because it isat least in my ...

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose yo...

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined....

It has taken a great deal of energy, which has not been so difficult to summon as the necessary pati...

It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could neve...

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Analysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as ...

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go for...

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.

If fear is the great enemy of intimacy, love is its true friend.

A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impressi...

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wo...

The Pilgrim and the Puritan whom we honor tonight were men who did a great deal of work in the world...

Standing, as I believe the United States stands for humanity and civilization, we should exercise ev...

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what h...

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine ...

The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author hims...

It seemed to me that this might be a great pageant, which would give a chance for a very interesting...

I once asked Ozzy Osbourne, truly one of my favorite people in the world, if he was cool with singin...

Miles Davis would have this lineup of all these amazing musicians and one day would just say, 'We're...

For many years, I tried to make New Year's resolutions. I made lists and shot for great heights: I w...

Now and then, someone is able to look at an empty space, conclude it would be a great place to start...

Jazz music is as American as it gets, and so is the U.S. Postal Service. A Miles Davis stamp is a pe...

The Bad Seeds are a band I will travel a great distance to see whenever possible.

Every year, August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great me...

The world knows nothing of its greatest men.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used ri...

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, fo...

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity o...

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the ...

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we ac...

But I like not these great success of yours for I know how jealous are the gods.

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, ricks...

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to le...

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those wh...

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give...

I think people have different definitions of team unity. My definition is doing whatever it takes to...

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause...