A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

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.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

A great man is always willing to be little.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.

A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

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

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

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

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

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

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

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

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

All great achievements require time.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

All great peoples are conservative.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

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.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.

Americans are blessed with great plenty we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

An index is a great leveller.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

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.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

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

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Being is the great explainer.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

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

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

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

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

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

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

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.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

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

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

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

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

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

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

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

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.

For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

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

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

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

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

Great hopes make great men.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Great loves too must be endured.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

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.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

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.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.

He was as great as a man can be without morality.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

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

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

I always entertain great hopes.

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat Bob Marley got heat Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

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

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.'

I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

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.

I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

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

I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

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

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.

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

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

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

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

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

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.

I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They're incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

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.

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

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.

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

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

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

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

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

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.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

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

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

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.

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.