977 private quotes tagged great

“The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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“You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.” — James Lane Allen

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“I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.” — Willa Cather

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“A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

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“The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.” — Malcolm Gladwell

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“It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.” — Barry Goldwater

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“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.” — John W. Gardner

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“Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.” — John Ruskin

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

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“I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.” — Francesca Annis

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“The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.” — Condoleezza Rice

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“I try something new every night. It's an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.” — Kate Clinton

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“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.” — E. M. Forster

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“No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.” — John Ruskin

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“It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.” — Keith Richards

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“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.” — Thomas Huxley

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“There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.” — Frida Kahlo

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“I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.” — Julia Roberts

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“Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein

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“It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.” — Pamela Anderson

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“It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.” — Willa Cather

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“No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.” — John Ruskin

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“What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.” — Andy Warhol

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

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