977 private quotes tagged great

“I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.” — Orson Welles

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“Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.” — Anna Magnani

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“The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.” — Andrew Jackson

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“Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.” — Saint Augustine

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“It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.” — Robert Fulghum

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“Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.” — Epictetus

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“Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.” — Sydney J. Harris

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“Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it.” — Danny Kaye

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“Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.” — James A. Michener

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“Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.” — Orison Swett Marden

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“Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.” — John Ruskin

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“The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.” — Samuel Smiles

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“I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.” — Bill Maher

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“Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.” — James Cash Penney

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“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” — Charles R. Swindoll

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“Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.” — Bryant H. McGill

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“What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.” — Salman Rushdie

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“We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.” — Dick Gregory

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“There is something great and terrible about suicide.” — Honore de Balzac

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“You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.” — John Keats

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“Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.” — Princess Diana

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“My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.” — Bjorn Borg

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“My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.” — Danica Patrick

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

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“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.” — Honore de Balzac

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