All Quotes

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.
‐‐ Oliver Goldsmith

A great speech is literature.
‐‐ Peggy Noonan

A great stench will come from Lausanne, but they will not know its origin; they will put out all people from distant places, fire seen in the sky, a foreign nation defeated.
‐‐ Nostradamus

A great tailor is like a great personal trainer - they tailor that suit to your natural physique.
‐‐ Jidenna

A great teacher who is full of excitement and love for her students can make all the difference in their lives.
‐‐ Deval Patrick

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.
‐‐ Maria Sharapova

A great thing about these trees is that they are excellent for cleaning, both groundwater, and of course, air.
‐‐ Mike Lowry

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

A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.
‐‐ Issey Miyake

A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tolstoy. That's a whole, thrilling new form that I really enjoy. They are Tolstoy-an in their endless character development and narrative changes... a show like 'Breaking Bad' is astonishing.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

A great trademark is appropriate, dynamic, distinctive, memorable and unique.
‐‐ Primo Angeli

A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
‐‐ Thomas Mann

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

A great war shall burst forth from fishes of steel. Machines of flying fire, lobsters, grasshoppers, mosquitoes. The mass attacks shall be repulsed in the woods, when no child in Germany shall obey any longer.
‐‐ Nostradamus

A great way to get all the right nutrients is to make a colorful plate - mix of good vegetables, carbohydrates, and protein. If you notice all your vegetables are green, change it up and add another color for a variety of benefits in one meal.
‐‐ Summer Sanders

A great white jumped into my cage when I was diving in South Africa. Half its body was in the cage, and it was snapping at me.
‐‐ Leonardo DiCaprio

A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
‐‐ Catherine the Great

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.
‐‐ Jean Genet

A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
‐‐ Nadia Boulanger

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
‐‐ Cyril Connolly

A great writer is a great writer... Tolstoy was not a woman, but 'Anna Karenina' is still a pretty good book.
‐‐ Phil Klay

A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.
‐‐ George Packer

A greater focus on design in all new homes would make the best use of land, create homes and public spaces, and reinforce the structures of urban life.
‐‐ Richard Rogers

A greater persecution shall befall the Christian Church than has ever been in Africa, and will last until the year 1792, when there will be a revision of centuries.
‐‐ Nostradamus

A greater tax deduction for students is not a handout. On the contrary, it helps those who are willing to meet the challenges of higher education to invest in our collective future.
‐‐ Charles B. Rangel

A green-light meeting is when the decision is made finally whether or not to make a given picture.
‐‐ Peter Bart

A Green Party candidate would be very different from a Democrat or Republican and should be heard.
‐‐ Peter Camejo

A grenade launcher will easily take out a tank; a Molotov cocktail placed in its air intake will destroy one as well.
‐‐ Sebastian Junger

A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

A grill is just a source of heat. Just like a stove, it is very user-friendly.
‐‐ Bobby Flay

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

A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
‐‐ Kin Hubbard

A group is as healthy as its 'social contract' is clear; a congregation as faithful as its covenant is mutually understood; a pastor as effective as the pastor's and people's commitment to trust and integrity is honored, guarded, and fulfilled.
‐‐ David Augsburger

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.
‐‐ Russell Baker

A group of reptilian humanoids, called the Babylonian Brotherhood, control humanity.
‐‐ David Icke

A group of scientists wanted to find the most effective mosquito repellents. So they tested 10 different substances, including campout standbys like DEET, as well as a random choice: Victoria's Secret perfume Bombshell. Turns out the perfume is almost as good as DEET.
‐‐ Annalee Newitz

A group of us started a community center in Santa Monica. We've tried different programs, and three have worked really well. A poetry group. Once a week we visit Venice High and talk to girls at risk.
‐‐ Lisa Bonet

A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.
‐‐ A. Whitney Brown

A group or an artist shouldn't get his money until his boss gets his.
‐‐ Bobby Darin

A growing and increasingly influential movement of philosophers, ethicists, law professors and activists are convinced that the great moral struggle of our time will be for the rights of animals.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

A growing awareness of the depth of popular attachment to the family has led some liberals to concede that family is not just a buzzword for reaction.
‐‐ Christopher Lasch

A growing body of evidence suggests that humans do have a rudimentary moral sense from the very start of life.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

A growing number of young women who have the freedom to decide have decided that career can wait, and the delicious early years of their children's lives can't.
‐‐ Suzanne Fields

A grown man should always carry cash, right? I don't know who told me, but someone told me that a long time ago, and the biggest turnoff is when a guy doesn't have cash on him.
‐‐ Bruno Mars

A grown man, weeping, is a tough thing to see.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

A guest star is a whole different responsibility. It's much different than being a regular. You come in and it's a lot of unfamiliar faces and you want to try to fit in as best you can, but also you want to stay there without making waves.
‐‐ Donnie Wahlberg

'A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints' was the first real actor-actor part I did, and I hope I to do more. Action movies are fun, but I'd be happy not to do them if there are better roles.
‐‐ Channing Tatum

A guided missile corrects its trajectory as it flies, homing in, say, on the heat of a jet plane's exhaust. A great improvement on a simple ballistic shell, it still cannot discriminate particular targets. It could not zero in on a designated New York skyscraper if launched from as far away as Boston.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.
‐‐ Carolyn Wells