Quotation Explorer - 'Great'

I understood the life around me better, not from love, which everybody acknowledges to be a great teacher, but from estrangement, to which nobody has attributed the power of reinforcing insight - Nirad C. Chaudhuri

It isn't what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you do for God that isn't self serving, which sets the stage for children to learn to care about something other than what is expected. - Shannon L. Alder

True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past. - Seth Brown

Courage is winning small battles with great honor. - Nathan S. Colestock

Exercise is a great leveler. It doesn't matter how rich you are, you can't just buy your way into a great body. You have to do the work. I find that comforting. It's one of the few things in life where we're all on a level playing field. - Vinnie Tortorich

‎At the end when you cut to the bone,we're all essentially the same; we are women of great expectations - Inji Amr

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. - Nelson Mandela

Insanely Great! - Steve Jobs

I feel like somebody just punched me in the stomach and knocked all my wind out. I'm only 30 years old and I want to have a chance to continue creating things. I know I've got at least one more great computer in me. And Apple is not going to give me a chance to do that. - Steve Jobs

Enjoy every day and make each day great - Ron Law

You can only become great at that thing you're willing to sacrifice for. - Maya Angelou

The state is that great fiction by which everyone tries to live at the expense of everyone else. - Frédéric Bastiat

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men. - Gerald R. Ford

I dug through my purse for the Glock. There is was, and I realized I'd never set the safety. I decided to consider this a great example of forethought rather than my being the stupidest gun handler on the planet. - Gini Koch

Everybody dies, but great souls ressurects in our memories. - Michael Bassey Johnson

During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened. - Winston S. Churchill

Even one day lost in misery is a great loss, for the day will never come back again. You lose 24 hours of happiness, joy & bliss. Live each day in happiness. - RVM

The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world has ignored is ignorance! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The truth therefore is that great nations become great not because of their amount of wealth an Great nations become great thanks to their wealth of truth, honesty and other virtues the natural resources. - Sunday Adelaja

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. - G.K. Chesterton

Strength we think to be a virtue in government, but we do not find our defense against disintegration either in arbitrary or in very great power. Indeed, we are inclined to see in both these the symptoms of an already advanced decay - Michael Oakeshott

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. - Andrew Carnegie

Vision, even for a dragon, is woefully unreliable. What you can see with great clarity may not be real; what you cannot see may be the ultimate reality. - T.A. Barron

The mystery that surrounded how their souls were tied, would certainly make a great read in decades to come, but for the time being though, they had to surrender and observe, as destiny played chess with their lives, eager to prevent them from running away from it. - Pertunia Lehoka

A great woman has three identities: a lovely daughter, a passionate lover, and a kind mother. - Debasish Mridha

If Wagner lived today, he would probably work with film instead of music. He already knew back then that the Great Art Form would include a sort of fourth dimension; it was really film he was talking about. - Harmony Korine

There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree - Vita Sackville-West

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world! - Neil Gaiman

Great people have great egos; maybe that's what makes them great. - Paul Arden

All divine power is within you to accomplish great things. - Lailah Gifty Akita

A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. - Tom Bissell

A dictator in a country is a big threat to the whole humanity; a democrat in a country is a great hope to the whole world! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Everything great that has ever happened to humanity has begun as a single thought in someone's mind, and if anyone of us is capable of such a thought, then all of us has the same capacity, capability, because we're all the same. - Yanni

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. - Isaac Newton

Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[...] Because if the food wasn't under lock and key, Julie, who would work? - Daniel Quinn

In reality, though, the first thing to ask of history is that it should pointout to us the paths of liberty. The great lesson to draw from revolutions isnot that they devour humanity but rather that tyranny never fails to generatethem. - Pierre Trudeau

Everyone has a calling. Thus, everyone has the chance to do something remarkable that will make him great in the eyes of others. - Jawe Campos

Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases.

CUNNING, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: "The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses." - Ambrose Bierce

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form. - Albert Einstein

Dance on the stage of life with love in your heart, a smile on your face, and a great vision in your mind. - Debasish Mridha

A leader does not develop leadership by gaining more followers. Great leaders make more leaders. - J.R. Rim

My world view is somewhat unique. I have learned from many great philosophers including Plato, Socrates, Buddha, Jesus, Darwin, Tagore, Emerson, and many more. - Debasish Mridha

For all men tragically great are made so through a certain morbidness. - Herman Melville

A delight to read is a great treasure. - Lailah Gifty Akita

They never fail who die in a great cause. - George Gordon Byron

I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me. - Augustine of Hippo

Writers are sponges. They absorb life, then squeeze and ring it out onto a page. Sometimes, if they squeeze too hard, they dry up. Not hard enough and they remain saturated, heavy and unpredictable, as they carry around a volume of ideas too great for their capacity. - Sarah Colliver

Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are. - Henry Fielding

Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family. - Henri J.M. Nouwen

Live daringly with great courage. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, your whole body will be full of light. But if your eyes are unhealthy, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! - Matthew 6:22-23, NIV

Education is a great treasure. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Of the animals I saw, I could write volumes. All were wild; for the Great Race's mechanised culture had long since done away with domestic beasts, while food was wholly vegetable or synthetic. - H.P. Lovecraft

We have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study. - Woodrow Wilson

Success in business requires training and discipline and hard work. But if you're not frightened by these things, the opportunities are just as great today as they ever were. - David Rockefeller

Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others. - Sir Thomas Browne

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. - Thomas Carlyle

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure. - Og Mandino

What other people think is important to them. What you think has great importance to you. - Debasish Mridha

May God give us much more grace eagerly devote ourselves for the Great Commission. - Lailah Gifty Akita

A great book increases my heartbeat as if I’m prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths. - Carmen DeSousa

I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber. - Elbert Hubbard

Men are not great by the virtue of their wealth, but by the wealth of their virtue. - Sunday Adelaja

Children can create fun out of nothing and when this great talent is lost you become a boring creature which is called adult! - Mehmet Murat ildan

I ought to grow up successfully, and I'm sure it will be my own fault if I don't. I feel it's a great responsibility because I have only one chance. If I don't grow up right I can't go back and begin over again. - L.M Montgomery

To keep any great nation up to a high standard of civilization there must be enough superior characters to hold the balance of power, but the very moment the balance of power gets into the hands of second-rate men and women, a decline of that nation is inevitable. - Christian D. Larson

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

TODAY IS A GREAT DAY TO MAKE ART. - M. Kirin

In order to have great happiness, you have to have great pain and unhappiness-otherwise how would you know when you're happy? - Leslie Caron

Is your country under great dangers? Light is gone and the darkness is everywhere? You don’t know whom to trust and what to do? Read the history of your country! There you will find out the best map for the way out! - Mehmet Murat ildan

We all cannot do everything or solve every issue. "It's impossible", however, if we each simply do our part. Make our own contribution, regardless of how small we may think it is.... together it adds up and great things get accomplished. - Mark W. Boyer

Everyone has it's own great triumph, has he own story with sadness, madness and reverses. That's how we are build, few are the people which share their story, most cases because of shame. - Deyth Banger

The truth came to me-a great revelation, showing me that I have a child to the Jones whole and perfect mind, created to express the health that God with. - Myrtle Filmore

There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories. - Ursula K. Le Guin

Grammar and ordinary language are bad guides to metaphysics. A great book might be written showing the influence of syntax on philosophy. - Bertrand Russell

The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of great moral crisis maintain their neutrality. - Dante Alighieri

If you don’t stand sincere by your wordshow sincere can the people be?Take great care over words, treasure them.1.17 - Lao Tzu

The distance you walk on water depends on how great your faith is. - Matshona Dhliwayo

All the great stories are about obsession and people who are obsessed. - Marty Rubin

All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. - Leo Tolstoy

If it's glorious to fail in great attempts, then #gloriousfail should definitely be a thing. - Brandon David Hastings

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. - Margaret Fuller

adversity is a great tool to self discovery. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Pursue your dreams with great passion. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Give up good to welcome great. - Debasish Mridha

Driving your car through deep pools of flood water is a great way of making your car unreliable. Smart people turn around and avoid it. - Steven Magee

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page. - Saint Augustine

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough. - Rabbi Harold Kushner

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews. - Katharine Hepburn

Only a person who perceives that all human beings are important can become a great leader. - Auliq Ice

Small steps of faith add up to great leaps of success. - Matshona Dhliwayo

The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay. - George Stephenson

The state is the great ficticious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Even the great get greater by doing more of it. - Colleen Wainwright

And remember, it truly is a great Life - Ronald Edward Jones

When a human awakens to a great dream and throws the full force of his soul over it, all the universe conspires in your favor. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater. - William Hazlitt

People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes.

There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true. - Niels Bohr

You learnt a great deal, Louisa, and so did your brother. Ologies of all kinds from morning to night. If there is any Ology left, of any description, that has not been worn to rags in this house, all I can say is, I hope I shall never hear its name - Charles Dickens

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. - Mahatma Gandhi

Whether you deny your wounds or see them clearly, they bring a great source of power because they lived in the same place as your heart. - Shannon L. Alder

Feeling low is normal, or sometimes, healthy. A lot of great things this world has witnessed were kickstarted by men when they felt low. - Swaraj Priyadarshi

No man is truly great, who is great only in his life-time. The test of greatness is the page of history. - William Hazlitt

Having a baby's sweet face so close to your own, for so long a time as it takes to nurse 'em, is a great tonic for a sad soul. - Erica Eisdorfer

If you ever get a high official position in your country, you must see the interests of the humanity much more important than the interests of your own country; only then you will deserve to be called a great man! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Working to become excellent at what you want, raises your confidence, charisma and develops courage. As you work to become top notch, it also gives you a great reputation at what you do. - Mark F. LaMoure

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest. - Ambrose Bierce

One of the great joys of science has to be turning a thought that surfaced one night over a few beers into a full-blown project. - Joe Roman

I’ll take a shower.Want company?Enough, Blake. Ayden stood and backhanded the big guy’s chest.Just trying to do my Hexy Knight duty. How about we carpool tomorrow, babe? You could sit on my lap. I make a great seat belt.Shut up, Blake, Ayden and I said in unison. - A&E Kirk

To live and love is a great fulfillment. - Lailah Gifty Akita

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit." ~ - Emmanuel

Open your mouth and purse cautiously, and your stock of wealth and reputation shall, at least in repute, be great. - Johann Georg von Zimmermann

Being a newspaper columnist is like marrying a nymphomaniac - It's great for the first two weeks.

They will kill a great many of us. We will kill a few of them. They will tire of it first.

What you think is your Karma. I hold myself to great Karma. - Lailah Gifty Akita

A great failure in life: not appreciating what others have to give. - Marty Rubin

Great difficult is the dogged bedfellow of great wealth, which always renders great wealth as less than great. Yet, great wealth as bequeathed by God is robustly free of such travails, which always renders it greater than great. - Craig D. Lounsbrough

He was fingering his great horn. - J.R.R. Tolkien

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great leader often sacrifices greatly in the service of others. - Debasish Mridha

I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men. - Nikola Tesla

Good books makes good life.Great books makes great life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I know who I am: a great soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned. - George Gordon Byron

The great writers are great as they have big workshop of imagination. - Kishore Bansal

It was like he could take any emotion I had and make it ten times stronger. Which is great when it’s happiness but pretty darn awful if it’s anything sad. - Catherine Gilbert Murdock

Here is a list for you - things I want to do with you:Love youLaughMake love with youLaughCook with youEat youLove youLaughDrink great wineLove you, always. - Zenaida Aguilera

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. - Oscar Wilde

The Christian life doesn't work because we are such great followers. It works because Christ is such a great Leader. - David McGee

To enjoy a great life, often have a great laugh. - Debasish Mridha

I don't have any idea of who or what God is. But I do believe in some great spiritual power. I feel it particularly when I'm out in nature. It's just something that's bigger and stronger than what I am or what anybody is. I feel it. And it's enough for me. - Jane Goodall

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives - Charlotte Gray

The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing. - Robert Collier

"Know thyself," said the old philosopher, "improve thyself," saith the new. Our great object in time is not to waste our passions and gifts on the things external that we must leave behind, but that we cultivate within us all that we can carry into the eternal progress beyond. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton

With or without God, good decisions can be made; But only with God will great decisions be made. - Damon Thueson

Everything you do, do with great love.Make it a song of your soul,and beauty of your heart. - Debasish Mridha

Lying in small doses makes a good storyteller great. - Bryan Way

Silence is a source of Great Strength. - Lao Tzu

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

To be a great success, you must do two things without fear: love and share. - Debasish Mridha

Great experiences are built on a foundation of bad experiences. - Tim Fargo

A good reputation is better than great riches. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Great things take time; that is why seeds persevere through rocks and dirt to bloom. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business - great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true.

May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility. - Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey

A great frustration in life is discovering that sometimes those who say something can't be done turn out to be right.

The great use of a life is to spend for something that outlasts it. - William James

A little amount of secret is a great pillar of the mind. He who does not have what somebody does not know, have what everybody knows. Know your secret; keep your secret. He who knows what to keep, knows what real life is all about - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels. - Arthur Rimbaud

Nothing can compare to the feeling evoked by turning the page in a great book. - Aneta Cruz

To have self confidence is great, but to maintain self confidence is even greater - G.S. Alag

In the time of to Augustine, the conversation in the West mostly had been a Christian reaction to outside ideas. After Augustine, the Great Conversation would be about his ideas for centuries. - John Mark Reynolds

Do you know great people are continually quoted while the average always misquote great people? - Onyi Anyado

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them. - Napoléon Bonaparte

Keeping the door that leads to your heart ajar is destructive as univited guests would move in and trample on your feelings, leaving you in great pains, but closing it always is a sure way to spot out the destructive and innovative guests. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Great ideas emerges from useless fragments of thoughts. - Michael Bassey Johnson

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough. - Catherynne M. Valente

Courage is not the absence of fear or despair; it is the capacity to continue on despite them, no matter how great or overwhelming they become. - Robert Fanney

America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great. - Alexis de Tocqueville

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings." - Samuel Johnson

A great snow is the calm death of struggle and the transformative birth of life. - A.D. Posey

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence. - Seneca

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed. - Niccolo Machiavelli

When you really want to find the answers to the great questions of your life, you need to look for them deep in yourself. - Frank Wanderer

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Follow your passion.It will lead you to great places. - Lailah Gifty Akita

To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act! - Alfred A. Montapert

Even great men bow before the Sun; it melts hubris into humility. - Dejan Stojanovic

if the storm of life gives you a big blow, don't worry, just give it a great smile and pursue to leave distinctive footprints with perseverance and tenacity regardless of how arduous the errand may be. It may not be so easy but, dare to win! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Because of a great love, one is courageous. - Lao Tzu

Great words, arranged with cunning and artistry, could change the perceived world for some readers - Pat Conroy

Greatness is achieved, not only by doing great things, but also,by making the small things we dogreat. - S. Tarr

one big problem and a great paradox in the arena of life is the problem of where or how a person is now and what, who and where he wants to be or have tomorrow. Had it not be this problem, we would have been relaxing all day long - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

the death of a great man demands the birth of a great son - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I naively believe that self-love is 80 percent of the solution, that it helps beyond words to take yourself through the day as you would with your most beloved mental-patient relative, with great humor and lots of small treats. - Anne Lamott

Stephen King is a great and incredible character. - Deyth Banger

Start each day as a great adventure. - Debasish Mridha

Between the great things we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing.

The more you create great music, the more it makes you eager to create more and more - sami abouzid

No great manager or leader ever fell from heaven, its learned not inherited. - Tom Northup

Giving is an open gate to great life. - Lailah Gifty Akita

The only true wisdom lives far from mankind, out in the great loneliness, and it can be reached only through suffering. Privation and suffering alone can open the mind of man to all that is hidden to others. - Igjugarjuk

yes, i have dated Salvador Dali guy when i was a high school girl. he was a great lover. but i had to dump him because he stole my inspiration of bent clock*~* .... who cares... - Hiroko Sakai

Thinking is a great joy for a good writer and a great torture for the bad one! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Often a healthy obsession is an essential component of great success. - Debasish Mridha

Do not let the endless succession of small things crowd great ideals out of sight and out of mind. - Charlotte M. Mason

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners. - Zora Neale Hurston

Irinistic motivation can help people attain academic success and possess themselves with great depth of knowledge. - Saaif Alam

Learning to live on less pride has been a great investment in my future. - Katerina Stoykova Klemer

When I know that I have inspired someone to do something great, I know that I have done my job. - Andrea L'Artiste

There are two kinds of great power which can shake the earth: Mega earthquakes and big ideas! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is the belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. - Richard Dawkins

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few. - Pythagoras

Is there a price too great to pay for your own happiness? What is the price that you are willing to pay for your own happiness? - Lenon Honor

To hear how great your friends think you are: fake your death, or, get married. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong. God cannot be for, and against the same thing at the same time. - Abraham Lincoln

True genius without heart is a thing of nought - for not great understanding alone, not intelligence alone, nor both together, make genius. Love! Love! Love! that is the soul of genius. - Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin

Yet human intelligence has another force, too: the sense of urgency that gives human smarts their drive. Perhaps our intelligence is not just ended by our mortality; to a great degree, it is our mortality. - Adam Gopnik

A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching! - William Shakespeare

For reasons no one has yet explained, the Internet is at once riveting and a great killer of concentration. - Joseph Epstein

Your life can be a great success or it can be a disaster. Be careful with the choices you make. - Debasish Mridha

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. - Denis Diderot

If we should be blessed by some great reward, such as fame or fortune, it's the fruit of a seed planted by us in the past. - Bodhidharma

The world might stop in ten minutes; meanwhile, we are to go on doing our duty. The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though our world might last a hundred years. - C.S. Lewis

It was like something lurking in the darkness within him...There is remained in the darkness, the great pain, tearing him at times, and then being silent. - D.H. Lawrence

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion, great understanding goes with great compassion.

Cross-country skiing is great if you live in a small country. - Steven Wright

Whoever has received knowledgeand eloquence in speech from Godshould not be silent or secretivebut demonstrate it willingly.When a great good is widely heard of,then, and only then, does it bloom,and when that good is praised by man,it has spread its blossoms. - Marie de France

The future has no memory of your past or present. You are free to make it anything you choose. So make it great! - Meena Sarine

Every great artist has the sense of provocation. - Arthur Cravan

We will all have an end to this journey one day, some will have a great ending some will have it bad, but it’s the journey that they take that matters, in the end. - Zakariyya Sheikh

To steal and copy my messages, given by Babajiis a Testimony of A Great Raper. - Petra Hermans

To be great is not a word but work that makes a word. - Auliq Ice

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create. - Maria Montessori

Knee-jerk liberals and all the certified saints of sanctified humanism are quick to condemn this great and much-maligned Transylvanian statesman.

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid. - William Hazlitt

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service. - Martin Luther King Jr.

By small and simple sentences, great books come to pass. - Richelle E. Goodrich

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich. - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Great leadership makes ordinary people into extraordinary people. - Jeffrey Fry

Every great soul nurtures strong positive mental power. - Lailah Gifty Akita

And finally, I've always drawn a great deal of moral comfort from Humpty Dumpty. The part I like the best? 'All the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again.' That's because there is no Humpty Dumpty, and there is no God. None, not one, no God, never was. - George Carlin

The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations, they think ahead and create their mental picture, and then go to work materializing that picture in all its details, filling in here, adding a little there, altering this a bit and that bit, but steadily building, steadily building. - Robert Collier

Two great things happened to me. One was that I survived. The other was that I met you, because I knew why - Kamand Kojouri

I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill. - Samuel Butler

For a great life a road map of life is more important than the journey itself. - Debasish Mridha

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Much has been made about the death of the novel and the end of literature as it’s seen to be assailed by technology, by the web, by the many and varied new forms of entertainment and culture. I don’t share that pessimism because I think it is one of the great inventions of the human spirit. - Richard Flanagan

Society is composed of two great classes-- those who have more dinners than appetite, and those who have more appetite than dinners. - Sebastien Chamfort

Winter reaches its peaknot when a great wind screamsfrom the top of its lungs, but when a lazy breeze whispers from the bottom of its heart - shivaraj konanavar

I believe having a great diversity of teachers is harmful and confusing for a young mind, in the same way I believe that it is better to know one book intimately than a hundred superficially - Donna Tartt

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need. - Voltaire

He is not great who is not greatly good. - William Shakespeare

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes. - Israel Shenker

Great praxis demands great piety. - Sallie McFague

Writing is not about the voices in your head, but the voices that make the great leap to the page. - J.H. Glaze

To speak only one language is to do yourself a great injustice. - Michel Templet

Sin with the multitude, and your responsibility and guilt are as great and as truly personal, as if you alone had done the wrong.

All great truths begin as blasphemies. - George Bernard Shaw

In this nonfundamentalist understanding of faith, practice is more important than theory, love more important than law, and mystery is seen as an insight into truth rather than an obstacle. It is the great lie of our time that all religious faith has to be fundamentalist to be valid. - Andrew Sullivan

It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part. - Voltaire

There are two kinds of science: The black science and the white science. The science of weapon production is the black one. Working in this category of science is a great betrayal to humanity! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Be self-responsible. Be less dependent on other people. Aim at being the most responsible person you can be. Read about great, successful leaders. Learn to think great thoughts and work to be an excellent person. - Mark F. LaMoure

Be great, dwell on great thoughts. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Nil Sine Magno Labore ("Nothing without great effort") --Motto of Brooklyn College - Tony-Paul de Vissage

Patience is the essence of clicking great Photographs!! - Abhijeet Sawant

To be a great success, be happy today. - Debasish Mridha

I wake up every morning thinking about all the great things I am going to accomplish that day, and I go to bed every night thinking about all the even greater things I’m going to have to accomplish tomorrow to make up for the nothing I did today. - John A. Ashley

Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and perceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and last some crisis shows what we have become. - Brooke Foss Westcott

I find great happiness in my relationships with old friends, living mirrors that reflect histories of laughter and sorrow, triumphs and failures, births and deaths, on both sides. - Diane Von Furstenberg

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. - Jane Austen

Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from "justifying" ourselves. - Friedrich Nietzsche

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty and joy to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. - Helen Keller

The great would not think themselves demigods if the little did not worship them. - Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper, richer, wider – and is comic, whereas The Great Gatsby is a tragic novel. And I think all great art is comic art.() Stephen Fry - video

Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself! - Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

Great books make great being. - Lailah Gifty Akita

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature. - Edmund Burke

The great thing about writing fiction is that you can do whatever the fuck you want, go as far as you are willing to go, and laugh at the people who take it seriously. - Richard P. Denney

All rising to a great place is by a winding stair. - Francis Bacon

Lying for lying's sake is the inspiration behind all great fiction. - Marty Rubin

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. - Benjamin Disraeli

Power is the great aphrodisiac. - Henry Kissinger

A great marriage is not when the 'perfect couple' comes together. It is when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. - Dave Meurer

There has never been any great person who never met great trials and oppositions but their patience, tenacity, endurance and perseverance saw them to the end as great people - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions. - Debasish Mridha

A great mentor is full of understanding, trust, respect and willing to help his/her mentees to reach the right direction in life. - Euginia Herlihy

Parents need to be lucky to be good in parenting; children have to be lucky to have great parents! - Amit Chatterjee

Every great man is an idol, an oracle of inquiry. Don't aspire to know the former, but aspire to know the diety in his soul. - Michael Bassey Johnson

The sense of death is most in apprehension; and the poor beetle, that we tread upon, in corporal sufferance feels a pang as great as when a giant dies. - William Shakespeare

Suffering is one of life's great teachers. - Bryant McGill

Are we going to be stupid? she whispered.Define stupid.Anything that involves either one of us exposing our favorite body parts. Or their hearts…I want to hear about your favorite body part, he said. In great detail. - Jill Shalvis

Do it with great love or forget it. - Debasish Mridha

It feels great to be alive. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Big thinking precedes great achievement.

Use all this life to make yourself a great writer, thoughtful and kind, slowly, surely over the years. - T.K. Naliaka

With grace and gratitude, great life evolves. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Each day is a new opportunity. I chose to make this day a great one. - Louise L. Hay

To middle-class Americans who have paid a great deal for the last 12 years and from whom I ask a contribution tonight, I will say again... you're not going at it alone anymore - you're certainly not going first, and you're not going to pay more for less as you have too often in the past.

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

I am just mystified by these people telling me I would think Obama was doing a great job if his skin contained less melanin. - Jonah Goldberg

I don't throttle and smother people in my life.. Not because I don't have my own fair share of doubts and sometimes, yes, insecurities.. But I have a great deal of confidence in my instincts that I've chosen the right one to trust.. When I trust, I do so with my whole heart.. - Laarni Venus Marie Giango

Fiction is a great combination between experience and imagination. - Desi Puspitasari

I can name the newscaster on The Simpsons, but I can't name my own congressman. And that's what makes America great.

No one can take away your Natural Rights, but they can do great damage making you think they can. - J.S.B. Morse

It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility that something terribly funny will happen. - Philip K. Dick

There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. - G.K. Chesterton

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. - Theodore Dreiser

Until one expands his imagination, abilities and capacity to do and receive, he will always have the crumbs from those who dare to do great works - Bernard Kelvin Clive

It took place in the midnight in the University's Great Hall, in a welter of incense, candlesticks, runic inscriptions and magic circles, none of which was strictly necessary but which made the wizards feel better. - Terry Pratchett

God has permitted the great lie for a short time only. That time is now coming to an end. Believers in the lie! You have been raised on the milk of your concrete beliefs. Now it is time for you to be weaned to partake of the solid food of the new age, the "New World Order. - Compton Gage

There may be a great fire in our soul, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke. - Vincent Van Gogh

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

the Great Vaccination — the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia. - Álvaro de Campos

At home, Tommy tried to avoid looking too long at himself in the mirror, for his reflection stirred in him a feeling of great loneliness and a fear that this loneliness might be permanent. - Aryn Kyle

I don’t understand why people are always putting us down, instead of encouraging us to become great. Because, when you do become great, you will give me a world that I would not have any other way. We all havesomething to give one another. - Derric Yuh Ndim

Faith and freedom is great, but it gets nowhere without faith in freedom. - A.E. Samaan

I've Learned To Accept that one is never as great or terrible as they are made to feel, and the truth lies somewhere in between. - K.J. Kilton

A great book is a homing deviceFor navigating paradise.A good book somehow makes you careAbout the comfort of a chair.A bad book owes to many treesA forest of apologies. - J. Patrick Lewis

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

Be simple but think great to be great. - Debasish Mridha

The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is. - Arnold Bennett

Water has no hands,but carries great ships.Air has no shoulders,but carries large planes.The Sun has no eyes,but finds its way around the universe. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Artists, especially writers, great writers, are the most honest people I know. There are deep confessions in their words. And if we're strong enough to expose the spaces between them, we find truths there also. - Darnell Lamont Walker

Good books do not waste our time as most people do... collect a great quantity of books, build alibrary worthy of your noble soul, andspend without stint all the money necessary for it. - Cardinal Augustin Valier

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils ... - Louis Hector Berlioz

Great is the hand that holds dominion over/Man by a scribbled name. - Dylan Thomas

A sunshine can bring opportunities for a person's life and you should never be disappointed if it shines on you because if you disregard it, you will miss the moment of great luck. - Saaif Alam

Sacrificing a part of yourself so others can go on to fafill there greatness, their destiny. Is greatness in itself but in a much smaller way that won't be written about or put in history books. But it is far more great in many ways. - Thomas Brodie Sangster

Great faith equals great power. - Matshona Dhliwayo

It's all overrated, man. Sex is only a great thing if you're not getting any. - Charles Bukowski

Maybe you and I can't do great things. We may not change the world in one day, but we still can change some things today, in our small way.

I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic, and a progressive religious experience. - Shelley Winters

Information is nutrition, knowledge is nutrition, art is nutrition and they set us free. Internet is a great library, great library is a freedom within wisdom in this digital age - Baris Gencel

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored. - Louis C.K.

If you really want to understand God then remove everything that is common between God and humans like mind, heart, body, emotions etc. Because if you are thinking like that for him then you underestimated him to a great extent. - Aishwarya Shiva Pareek

Great ambition and conquest without contribution is without significance. What will your contribution be? How will history remember you? - William Hundert - The Emperors Club

When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way - Sam Raimi

The doctors cannot make the ignorant think, cannot hope to bring home the sufferings of millions; only one of ourselves can someday do that...It will need great courage but it will be done, because all things must work toward ultimate good; there is no real wastage and no destruction. - Radclyffe Hall

Life is a great novel, discovering your calling is the far better sequel - Carl Henegan

I believe great things are ahead for each of us. Now we just have to go ahead and create them. - Tom Althouse

I wasn’t finished with you, Pru, he said softly. I had plans.Oh boy. Maybe I had plans, too.Yeah? Closing the gap between them, one of his hands went to her hip, the other slid up her back to anchor her to him. Tell me. Tell me slowly and in great detail. - Jill Shalvis

Nothing is more important than a great idea that influenced thedevelopment of civilization. - Eraldo Banovac

Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty. - Richard Feynman

All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. - Sir Winston Churchill

The history of the world is but the biography of great men. - Thomas Carlyle

Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.So be passionate and write a great story. - Debasish Mridha

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you. - Harold Bloom

A great teacher is the architect of a great future. - Debasish Mridha

Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue. - Zelda Fitzgerald

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire.

You don’t have to be in a boxing ring to be a great fighter. As long as you are true to yourself, you will succeed in your fight for that in which you believe. - Muhammad Ali

I am a great lover. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Set your mind on beauty, love, and virtue. You will be blessed, great, pure, and true. - Debasish Mridha

Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled. - Frederic Raphael

In my wide association in life, meeting with many and great men in various parts of the world, I have yet to find the man, however great or exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than he would ever do under a spirit of criticism. - Charles M. Schwab

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

t takes great courage to stand up against your fixed, false beliefs. - Debasish Mridha

To be a follower of the Crucified means, sooner or later, a personal encounter with the cross. And the cross always entails loss. The great symbol of Christianity means sacrifice and no one calls himself a Christian can evade this stark fact. - Elisabeth Elliot

No one can stop you from having great moments with your kids because they believe the hero inside of you. A kiss and warm hug are sure the best treat and possibly the sweetest but simplest form of them saying how much they love you. - Karl Gornal

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

Humility is a quality for which I have only a limited admiration. In many phases of life it is a great mistake and degenerates into defensiveness and hypocrisy. - E.M. Forster

two great questions exist in each day; 'what must I do excellently today?' for morning and 'what did I do wrong or right today?' for evening. When we fail to know the real reasons why we wake up each day and why we retire at night, we fail to know the real reasons why we live. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Sorrow comes in great waves...but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us. And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain. - Henry James

One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek. - Bill Cosby

A great chunk of our lives is wasted on thoughts that bring nothing. We all think about something but, in the end, we only close the day thinking a lot and doing nothing but little. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

All these moments of sadness, of discomfort, of pain shall pass. The suffering you experience today will make you stronger for your tomorrows to come. You will be better. You will be Great . You will be happy and well and a success. You will finally touch the heavens that you aspired to - Levon Peter Poe

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. - Doris Lessing

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic! - Thomas Mann

A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional... values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process. - C. S. Lewis

Education delivered by a strict councellor, and recieved with great pains would never brighten the future of any student. - Michael Bassey Johnson

Proxy religion involves too great a risk: you had better see to your soul's matters yourself, and leave them in no man's hands. - Spurgeon, Charles H.

Doing good makes you great. Bad things take away from good ones. Practicing Netiquette is all good. NetworkEtiquette.net - David Chiles

Drawing is the art of being able to leave an accurate record of the experience of what one isn't, of what one doesn't know. A great drawer is either confirming beautifully what is commonplaceor probing authoritatively the unknown.::: ::: - Brett Whiteley

General belief is There is no real magic, only tricks but a great magician compel people not to trust that belief and make them believe, after all "There does exist a real magic". - Amit Kalantri

Do not make the Great Commission your Great Omission. - Daryl Baugh

Great fiction is the art of a soul. - Douglas Christiansen

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done. - Vince Lombardi Jr.

Those that dare not to dream big are cowards, for they fear to expose the already great potentials embedded inside of them. - Auliq-Ice

Cooking is great, but the meal that has been prepared for you with love is the best. - Stephen Richards

When I looked at myself through the prism of awareness, great tears came as I connected with how this wounded child felt. - David W. Earle

Proverbs 16:3 "Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and He will establish your plans."A great reminder when planning out the school year. - Tamara L. Chilver

Unless you have great parents or some inspirational teacher from a movie that pushes you to follow your dreams, you can't expect a kid to be smart enough to realize they can do what they want with their life before they've been pushed through the school system into having an average life. - Dan Howell

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood - Otto von Bismarck

To be great, practice simplicity and express humility. - Debasish Mridha

The body is poisoned through the mouth, even so is the heart through the ear ... And even if we do mean no harm, the Evil One means a great deal, and he will use those idle words as a sharp weapon against some neighbor's heart. - Francis de Sales

I am in great mood. - Lailah Gifty Akita

To achieve greatness, we must overcome the fear of failure and dare to take great risks. - Debasish Mridha

How we walk with the broken speaks louder than how we sit with the great. - Anonymous

The imagination is a healthy thing, and a great many scientific discoveries could not have been made without it, but it need to be harnessed to some serious object if it is to come to anything. - Diane Setterfield

A man who makes a plate or a shirt or a loaf of bread or anything our great great ancestors called a work of art, has no need to try to be sincere; all he can do is practice his craft to the best of his ability. But once he starts making useless things, how can he not be sincere? - René Daumal

Bad peoples often hunts past un-resolve haunted projection in other people's life and great peoples forgives haunted instinct nature of bad peoples let go and save the society but this war cycle will never ends. Human forgiveness will have limit. - Atif Iqbal Khan

Today, in the face of abjection and solitude, his heart said: 'No'. And in the great distress that washed over him, Mersault realised that his rebellion was the only authentic thing in him, and that everything elsewhere was misery and submission". - Albert Camus

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for. - Homer

Wherever there is great property, there is great inequality... for one very rich man, there must be at least five hundred poor. - Adam Smith

I have great respect for the Syrian people, as I do for the rest of the Middle East. - Steven Magee

Not the comfort, but the confrontation and hardship, is the teacher of a great life. - Debasish Mridha

At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religous or political ideas. - Aldous Huxley

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say. - Sir Henry Taylor

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. - Dante Alighieri

Darnell had received what is called a sound commercial education, and would therefore have found very great difficulty in putting into articulate speech any thought that was worth thinking; - Arthur Machen

…they speak great swelling words of emptiness… - 2 Peter 2 18

I was at a party in 1989 and Ian McEwan, Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie were sitting on a sofa wondering where the next generation of great British writers would come from. As we talked, it became clear they had never read a word by me. - Jeanette Winterson

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. - John F. Kennedy

There is... nothing greater than touching the shore after crossing some great body of water knowing that I've done it with my own two arms and legs. - Diana Nyad

Before we acquire great power, we must acquire wisdom to use it well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Whoever submits himself to a super-discipline can expect great triumphs. - Samael Aun Weor

The naked woman’s body is a portion of eternity too great for the eye of man. - William Blake

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom - Sir Francis Bacon

Are you satisfied with you? Great! Are not you? Let's start in the mirror... - Da Anunciação Marco

Stop regretting relationships that once brought you great joy. - Joseph Simmons

The great enemy of communication, we find, is the illusion of it. We have talked enough; but we have not listened. And by not listening we have failed to concede the immense complexity of our society—and thus the great gaps between ourselves and those with whom we seek understanding. - William H. Whyte

The world will become only as great a place to live in as we make it. - Sharad Vivek Sagar

Take me to unexplored paradise & one of your best islands, I want to cross the pacific ocean and make a great memory. Let's go to the eastern coast of the Philippines where the waves meet the sky. You know where it is! - El Fuego

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. - Miguel de Cervantes

The great souls distinguish with two things; their greater needs and their greater agony. - Alireza Salehi Nejad

Destination is, ideally, where one should stop; and ideally, one should not stop. Practically, destination of a great man is where he wants to stop; of a common man, where he has to. The one ends with Will, the other with Reason. Morality is always pursued, never reached! - Raheel Farooq

Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty… I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well. - Theodore Roosevelt

No more important duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

You can start now and create a great future. - Lailah Gifty Akita

There are problems and there are problems. One big problem and a great paradox in the arena of life is the problem of where or how a person is now and where or how he wants to be tomorrow. Had it not been this problem, we would have been relaxing all day long - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If you always lived in comfort you would miss the adventure that is uncomfortable, but of great reward. - Chris Burkmenn

Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. - Ezra Pound

Life is a great gift from God. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Know the history of the great ancestors. - Lailah Gifty Akita

A great sense of commitment builds a hardworking spirit. - Wayne Chirisa

Commitment to ourselves, our families, and our business is paramount to being successful. Human should be committed to rolling out great products, services and initiatives that impact those personal and professionals encounters which cross our path. - Sameh Elsayed

... first learn to construct the parts properly before it ventures to fashion a great whole; ... - Friedrich Nietzsche

Be kind! Give small things with great love. - Debasish Mridha M.D.

Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up. - Vladimir Nabokov

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. - Stanley Kubrick

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old? - Lois McMaster Bujold

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. - Aesop

He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your weakness. - Mother Teresa

While I wholeheartedly believe in choosing to approach every challenge with a great attitude, I don't mean that we should abandon authenticity and live in fantasyland. - Charles R. Swindoll

In all the works on pedagogy that ever I read — and they have been many, big, and heavy — I don't remember that any one has advocated a system of teaching by practical jokes, mostly cruel. That, however, describes the method of our great teacher, Experience. - Charles Sanders Peirce

World will be so beautiful without war.Every child will grow up without fear.Mother will smile; child will play.Friendship will prosper all the way.Love harmony and peace everywhere.It is our hope for our great future. - Debasish Mridha

When a man says to me, 'Let us work together in the great cause you have undertaken, and let me be your companion and aid, for I admire you more than I have ever admired any other woman,' then I shall say, 'I am yours truly'; but he must ask me to be his equal, not his slave. - Susan B. Anthony

Five rules to follow to be a great leader: 1. Be curious. 2. Serve others. 3. Be purpose oriented. 4. Be adaptive. 5. Be positive. - Debasish Mridha

Great leadership produces great success. Weak leadership produces failure. - Ellen J. Barrier

Positioning in pursuit of your purpose is critical to your success in life. Remember, great strikers are found in the proximity of the penalty box. That is strategic positioning. - Oscar Bimpong

There's great power in not fearing solitude. You don't allow yourself to be treated like crap because you're afraid of the alternative. - S. Usher Evans

Too much work will create too much motivation for the strong, and a big collapse for the weak! Strength gets great strength from the challenges! - Mehmet Murat ildan

I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person. - Tim Duncan

The bare knowledge of God's will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is like a winter sun, which hath no heat or influence; it doth not warm the affections, or purify the conscience. Judas was a great luminary, he knew God's will, but he was a traitor. - Thomas Watson

Lying for lying's sake is the inspiration behind all great art - Marty Rubin

Peace is simple, but it takes great courage to be simple and walk the path of peace. - Debasish Mridha

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity. - Napoléon Bonaparte

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. - John Burroughs

Fiction writing is great. You can make up almost anything.

We too should make ourselves empty, that the great soul of the universe may fill us with its breath. - Laurence Binyon

Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling-blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities. - Edgar Allan Poe

To climb great mountains you need feet of faith. - Matshona Dhliwayo

We’re halfway through another great time of the year. You should start to make little improvements to your lifestyle and thinking, your late. Start making a change now. - Auliq Ice

A great difference between May and Day is the M and D! Be a good Managing Director of your life each day in May. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

More love, more power.Less love, less power.Great love, great power. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I say 'girl' because I love to annoy people. I love the word 'girl'. 'Gal' is pretty great, too. I don't just want to be called a woman. It sounds like someone with a mustache. - Bette Midler

You know the great thing though? It's that change can be so constant that you don't even feel a difference until there is one. It can be so slow that you don't know that you life is better or worse until it is. Or it can blow you away--make you better in an instant.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

To say that, I will not agree (will not accept) is great egoism! - Dada Bhagwan

A great sage is like a tree, he lives just to help others, just to make this world beautiful. - Debasish Mridha

We remember though all the firelit glowOf a great hearth's gleam and glare,And we looked for a space at each happy faceAnd the love that was written there. - Caris Brooke

Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us. - Theodore Roosevelt

When I'm good I'm great, when I'm bad I'm excellent. - Mae West

The great ideas you met on your path are the genius sculptors which shape the shape your mind! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Standing on the shoulders of the great allows you to see further than everyone. - Matshona Dhliwayo

If you really know how great a competition it is to enter into the Kingdom of God is, you would have increased your competitive power greatly in your pursuit for the Kingdom of God - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I like football. I find its an exciting strategic game. Its a great way to avoid conversation with your family at Thanksgiving. - Craig Ferguson

Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philadelphia. - Russell H. Conwell

It takes great character and understanding of human emotions to help someone you shouldn't be helping under normal circumstances. - Daya Kudari

Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun. - Leonardo da Vinci

Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed - personally and professionally. Even the so-called 'solo star' has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

The Bible is the great treasure for the curious sinner, fresh water for thirsty painting soul, the revealed truth for the true seeker or worship per,the unrevealed truth for the wrong seekers, a guide to the blind and eternal food for the hungry soul. - Ikechukwu Joseph

The day you yearn greatly for in your life, will never come so easily as you think without great sacrifice. - Auliq Ice

I am not a philosopher but a friend, who, with great love and care, wants to share his thoughts. - Debasish Mridha

Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist. - Oscar Wilde

To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations. - C. E. Montague

God takes great joy in the passionate romantic love between a husband and wife. - Jim George

Marriage is a great blessing, but it can be a great lesson - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Great obstacles are no match for a great God. - Matshona Dhliwayo

Love harmony and peace everywhere.It is our hope for our great future. - Debasish Mridha

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. - Samuel Johnson

LA needs the cleansing of a great disaster or founding of a barricaded commune.

A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. - William Hazlitt

I find the great in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Everything you need is already within you. The beauty of life is that your DESTINY lies always in your hands. The time has come for you to STEP UP and BE GREAT - Pablo

A humble man rises to great heights and an arrogant man falls deep into the pit he tries to dig for others. - Amit Abraham

Not anyone can become a great artist, but a great artist can come from anywhere. - Jan Pinkava Ratatouille

Everyone wants to look great in the summer... Don't just dream, take action!Your journey to being a summer yummer starts today. - Steve Maraboli

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return. - Maya Angelou

Focus is the ability to say no to the GOOD so you can fulfill the yes you said to the GREAT. - Orrin Woodward

We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours. - Marcel Proust

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment. - Stephen King

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly combat. - Plato

Great wits are sure to madness near allied And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

Pleasure and love are the pinions of great deeds. - Charles Fox

When you find the way to empower others, you will find that you are a great leader. - Debasish Mridha

Every book is a great action and every great action is a book! - Martin Luther

If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth. - Democritus

Dream and act HUGE my friends; for to do less is to deny who you are. And live with BOLD conviction – as you move forcefully into the certainty of your great success! - Christopher Babson

You have to be a great lover to be a beloved. - Debasish Mridha

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject. - John Keats

Tying the little folks with the older folks is a great and powerful tool to preserve and to protect the family and the individual. - Alex Haley

Greatness always inspires you to be great. - Debasish Mridha

Habits are familiar and comfortable, putting our reactions on autopilot and often leading us, instead, to great discomfort. - Charles F. Glassman

The weakness was the first feature, the other what will do if I was this character? One of the best questions ever I have asked, it's one great from it comes another and another... - Deyth Banger

Devotion to God brings great delight. - Lailah Gifty Akita

War created the conditions for great advances in technology...without war men would not traverse oceans in hours, travel in space, or microwave popcorn. - Adrian R. Lewis

If I have done great things it's because I was standing in the closet of smart men taking notes and then publishing their ideas as my own. - Isaac Newton

Don't shun oppositions. They are there to position you well. Opposition is the great valley between great men and they that give up because of the arduous journey they may have to take through the valley. Don't shun oppositions; Position yourself with oppositions! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order.These two things are one. - Wallace Stevens

We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'. - Sir Arthur Eddington

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in 70 or 80 years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. - Doris Lessing

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people, who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company. - Jane Austen

If you wish to be a great family-man learn philosophy of people, if you wish to be a great businessman learn philosophy of finance. - Amit Kalantri

Self pity is a curse , which may lead to indignant behavior., while a calm, non-competitive mind, achieves great feat. Competing with one self leads to blessing, while comparing oneself to others and then competing is a destructive path. - Henrietta Newton Martin -Senior Legal Consultant & Author

The love for literature is a great light. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. - Thomas L. Friedman

I know [patriotism] exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward. - George Washington

Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

If living conditions don't stop improving in this country, we're going to run out of humble beginnings for our great men. - Russell P. Askue

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. - Mary Kay Ash

Great imaginations are the breeding ground for great accomplishments!Great imaginations are like horses, they need guidance and proper nurturing, only then do they offer the world of adventure they promise. - Marilynn Dawson

There's no weakness as great as false strength. - Stefan Molyneux

Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome. - John Green

When in life you are destined great, but fated to a humble background, it always gets really worse before it gets really better. - Darmie Orem

A great teacher not only teaches, but they also encourage and appreciate improvement. - Debasish Mridha

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly. - Albert Einstein

Most great products have been made over the dead bodies of experts. - David Brown

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. - Danny Kaye

The vast possibilities of our great future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future.

To feel the right emotions is fully as important as to hold the right ideas, and the great service of religion is the development of the right emotions.

My parents did a great job of creating a home we wanted to return to...and all of our friends wanted to be there too. - Richie Norton

When your shoulds finally become musts, that's when you will achieve great change in your life. - Lorri Faye

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion. - Martha Graham

Live each day with great love, hope and faith. - Lailah Gifty Akita

America is too great for small dreams. - Ronald Reagan

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world. - Edward Hopper

I was kind of excited to go to jail for the first time and I learnt some great dialogue. - Quentin Tarantino

If you look at Isis beheading women and children, if you are like me, you are not thinking, one of these would make a great missionary. - Matt Chandler

Friendship is as great as a True FriendAnd a True Friend is as great as Friendship. - Sharvani Akula

Your best - no matter how great - isnothing if you minus God from theequation. - Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I am eternally grateful.. for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on. - Kurt Vonnegut

I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy. - Albert Einstein

It’s a great day to write a best-seller. - Buffy Andrews

Where there is great love, there are always miracles. - Willa Cather

Great writers teach as well as entertain. - Beem Weeks

Great Literature is simply language charged to the utmost with meaning - Ezra Pound

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope. - George Eliot

The sweet and the sour: this is what makes great art. - Ward Jenkins

The great delusion of modernity, is that the laws of nature explain the universe for us. The laws of nature describe the universe, they describe the regularities. But they explain nothing. - Ludwig Wittgenstein

A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. - Otto von Bismarck

I most likely like books which are out of my language... English... for example is a great example - Not my native language, but I enjoy the covers and how the words sound. - Deyth Banger

The darkness, the rage. One allows you to see the stars, the other gives you a false strength. But in the end both of which bring great torment. - Rodrigo Oliveski

The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence. One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason - but one cannot have both. - Robert A. Heinlein

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures. - George W. Bush

Our children need to assimilate the wonder that is India when they are young, so that they imbibe the principles of our founding fathers and continue to build this great nation. - Shallu Jindal

I'm interested in the way in which the past affects the present and I think that if we understand a good deal more about history, we automatically understand a great more about contemporary life. - Toni Morrison

A society with a great number of prisons is a totally failed society because it has terribly failed to create a marvellous society where crime is not something widespread but an exception! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters. - Norman Maclean

To hate a man because he was born in another country, because he speaks a different language, or because he takes a different view of this subject or that, is a great folly. Desist, I implore you, for we are all equally human...Let us have but one end in view, the welfare of humanity.

Fear is a great motivator.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth our powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered. - Daniel Webster

Peace is truth, trust, and harmony. Peace is joy, love, and great care. - Debasish Mridha

It would be great if a person could state with indisputable facts & figures as how many people have ever got a job or a business opportunity by liking an online thought/post of a rich businessperson. - Anuj Somany

Power and wealth only leads into great destruction. - Daniellewis

It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him. - Abraham Lincoln

Many people think of similar great things, but only the few act on it; which makes them great. - Pontius Joseph

Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. - William Shakespeare

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. - Benjamin Disraeli

The reading of great books awaken and brightens the light of my soul. - Lailah Gifty Akita

When you sit tranquilly, you set a great example to the people who rush around in panic and thus you show the crazy waves the beauty of being a calm lake! - Mehmet Murat ildan

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own. - William Hazlitt

A tapping foot isn’t the best a listener can get from a song: A good song makes a listener dance. A great song makes him think. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana

People that are scared of the dark have great imaginations and are my kind of people. Those who see nothing in the darkness are boring. - Stewart Stafford

Don’t be afraid when you have to pray fervently because of your circumstances. God is wanting to do something great through you! - Stormie Omartian

The Holy Spirit gives power for the fulfillment of the Great Commission. - Lailah Gifty Akita

To lift up the hands in prayer gives God glory, but a man with a dungfork in his hand, a woman with a slop pail, give Him glory, too. God is so great that all things give Him glory if you mean that they should. - Gerard Manley Hopkins

Real literature is something much better than a harmless instrument for getting through idle hours. The purpose of great literature is to help us to develop into full human beings. - Russell Kirk

In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are. - Nicholas Chamfort

There are many going afar to marvel at the heights of mountains, the mighty waves of the sea, the long courses of great rivers, the vastness of the ocean, the movements of the stars, yet they leave themselves unnoticed! - Augustine of Hippo

True success is a silence inner process that can empower the mind, heart and soul through strong aspiration for great achievement. - Nur Sakinah Thomas

Broken Wind believed that we are traumatized as babies by intestinal gas or colic. The great shaman invented a technique called "gastral projection" to help release these traumas. His philosophy was simple: "To air is human ... but to really cut one loose is divine. - Swami Beyondananda

Great use they have, when in the hands Of one like me, who understands, Who understands the time and place, The person, manner, and the grace, Which fools neglect; so that we find, If all the requisites are join'd, From whence a perfect joke must spring, A joke's a very serious thing. - Charles Churchill

The three great acts are love, goodness and self-sacrifice. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in - Rasheed Ogunlaru

Action on the move creates its own route; creates to a very great extent the conditions under which is it to be fullfilled, and thus baffles all calculation. - Henri Bergson

Avoidance is a great tool to get away from food in my face all day long.

Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work. - Joseph Conrad

It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the minds of those who control the teaching of the young. - Bertrand Russell

The day you give priority to bogus ethics over human reactions, you become a loser. Human reactions are priceless. Rules should never, ever stifle emotions. Tennis is a very human game facing a great danger that it will be strangulated in a cat's cradle of unnecessary or inhumane rules. - Ted Tinling

In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals. - C.G. Jung

It brings tears of joy to a teacher’s eye when the student becomes a great success. - Debasish Mridha

There is a great difference between enlightenment and education. The former is a discerned vital knowledge without guidance while the latter is imparting any knowledge. - Uzoma Nnadi

I would rather go swimming with great white sharks than wade in romance 'cause I can never find the courage to ask her to dinner or even to dance. - Adam Young (Owl City), The Yacht Club

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. - Albert Einstein

True friends are placed together for the purpose of accomplishing great achievements that help others. - Ellen J. Barrier

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps. - William Shakespeare

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. - John Stuart Mill

That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions. - A.E. Housman

...and here is a bed of roses for the great king now beyond us and our petty little world. - Michelle Shen

The war against the war is the only war that shall give you a great honour and a real peace! - Mehmet Murat ildan

Women are great. But I didn't take up acting so I could kiss a girl.

In great attempts, it is even glorious to fail.

Hard work is a prophet; it foretells success. Diligence is a prophet; it foretells great success. - Matshona Dhliwayo

I'm named after my great grand-mother...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity. - Katie Crouch and Grady Hendrix, The White Glove War

Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation - Nelson Mandela

The hobgoblin of a little mind may be the genius of a great one. - Hermester Barrington

It takes great courage when you are suffering to see beyond your suffering to the clear relations between things, to the laws that cause and govern your suffering; it takes great courage to be ruthless with one's griefs. - Andre Harvey

One of the greatest dangers of great dreams in your youth is waking up to despair as an adult. - Tice Davids aka David T. Parker

Great leaders do not fear challenges, because challenges don't break leaders but sharpens them. - Gugu Mona

Defeat is only defeat if we accept it as defeat. Victory often comes after defeat, because one was too stubborn to allow it to be their reality. In the trail of any great conflict you will see the scuff marks, where the one was beaten down, but they could not be taught to stay that way. - Tom Althouse

The best adventures in life is in the present. Seize the present and make it great adventure. - Lailah Gifty Akita

Without love, life will be a great mistake. - Debasish Mridha

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may be known in little matters. - Confucius

We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. - Chuck Palahniuk

Some are born great. Some achieve greatness. Some get it as a graduation gift. - Robin Williams

Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's the power of great literature. - Byron Ortiz

People don't want words, as seductive, pleasant and warming as they can be. People want to see that they're worth some sacrifice or some great deed. And it's not that people are always worth it, it's that love is. - Donna Lynn Hope

God raised Christ up to the highest position possible. Jesus is now our great high King, and we should not allow anyone to take His place in our lives, usurping His Throne room in our hearts, and minds! - brother Billy

Be great in act, as you have been in thought. - William Shakespeare