Great Quotes

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...

Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however...

I think my father gave me a great reverence for medical science. He was about as opposite to the per...

China pays a great deal of attention to the Korean nuclear issue. We stand for achieving denucleariz...

I will be very sad and worried if the imperialist government was calling me a great democratic man.

I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

Leadership is hard to define and good leadership even harder. But if you can get people to follow yo...

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marily...

Everybody in my family were great storytellers. My dad and his brothers would just go on and on; the...

We must not, however, be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who, in their eagerness to ge...

A person who has sympathy for mankind in the lump, faith in its future progress, and desire to serve...

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for g...

After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have n...

It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true moti...

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy pla...

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy play...

I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

New York is the great stone desert.

America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-fo...

In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild ...

In days of doubt, in days of dreary musings on my country's fate, you alone are my comfort and suppo...

I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to...

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't ...

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not onl...

I respect Apple. It's a great company that changed the world, especially the mobile time.

There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me comb...

With the White Stripes we were trying to trick people into not realising we were playing the blues. ...

I don't believe in the Great Man theory of science or history. There are no great men, just men stan...

Great poetry does not have to be technically intricate.

Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutali...

Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have ...

I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of hi...

My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn't want to accept this for 30 years, so we put him un...

The idea that Love Must Be Tough dictates that we be willing to set another person free- even if it ...

Strong convictions precede great actions.

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong h...

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the ...

If you want to connect with people who are in distress and great grief and scared, you need to do it...

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

It's great to listen to men talk about sports or fights or war or even hunting sometimes, but the pr...

The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, the...

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conv...

I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competi...

Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool...

The Global Financial Crisis and Great Recession posed daunting new challenges for central banks arou...

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield, I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wou...

I think it's important for artists to work together. It's great for fans to see, like, Ludacris came...

But because it was able to balance that kind of humor with a sweet story and characters you really r...

I think in London - and I don't wanna offend anybody in America, but this is a real statement - they...

I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.