All Quotes

Great drama is all about conflict, and what's a better conflict than Republican-Democrat?
‐‐ Allison Janney

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.
‐‐ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.
‐‐ Desiderius Erasmus

Great effort springs naturally from great attitude.
‐‐ Pat Riley

Great entrepreneurs are often great listeners and they can spot patterns and pick up on small details in customer stories.
‐‐ Alexander Osterwalder

Great entrepreneurs focus intensely on an opportunity where others see nothing. This focus and intensity helps to eliminate wasted effort and distractions. Most companies die from indigestion rather than starvation, i.e., companies suffer from doing too many things at the same time rather than doing too few things very well.
‐‐ Naveen Jain

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

Great execution. That's what you have to do when you're playing great teams.
‐‐ Tracy McGrady

'Great Expectations' has been described as 'Dickens's harshest indictment of society.' Which it is. After all, it's about money. About not having enough money; about the fever of the getting of money; about having too much money; about the taint of money.
‐‐ Felix Dennis

'Great Expectations' is one of the greatest stories.
‐‐ Jeremy Irvine

'Great Expectations' was an important novel in my adolescence. It was very much one of those emblematic novels that made me wish I could write like that. It helped that my models as a writer were dead over a hundred years before I began to write.
‐‐ John Irving

Great fear is concealed under daring.
‐‐ Lucan

Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion.
‐‐ Robert Burton

Great film roles, they always take you to another place. I'd love to do more of that, but I keep doing lots of voiceovers, some TV spots, and some film roles have come along, so I'm okay.
‐‐ Benito Martinez

Great French design is often about unexpected touches.
‐‐ Candice Olson

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but, less by assimilation than by friction.
‐‐ Heinrich Heine

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel.
‐‐ Karel Capek

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Great growth in India doesn't mean great growth for India companies. It could mean better growth for companies that are trading with India.
‐‐ Jerry A. Webman

Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.
‐‐ Dean Wareham

Great guys exist. They may not be in the package you think you like, and they may not come when you feel you deserve them the most, but they're there. I believe it. You should too. Because now I'm with someone who makes me grow every day. His name is Netflix.
‐‐ Chelsea Handler

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed.
‐‐ Peter S. Beagle

Great hopes make great men.
‐‐ Thomas Fuller

Great humorists are great insulters.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

Great ideas have no attachment to either money or class.
‐‐ Ian Schrager

Great ideas originate in the muscles.
‐‐ Thomas A. Edison

Great ideology creates great times.
‐‐ Kim Jong Il

Great images take you on a journey via a single photograph. The depth and layers pull your eye all over the frame, causing you to pick up interesting pieces along the way, ultimately coming to a climax.
‐‐ Jimmy Chin

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

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

Great industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.
‐‐ Jeff Bezos

Great interests demand great safeguards.
‐‐ Thomas Francis Meagher

Great investments may look crazy but really may not be.
‐‐ Peter Thiel

Great investors need to have the right combination of intuition, business sense and investment talent.
‐‐ Andrew Lo

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
‐‐ John Adams

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
‐‐ Dylan Thomas

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

Great is the victory, but the friendship of all is greater.
‐‐ Emil Zatopek

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.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.
‐‐ Rupert Murdoch

Great joy, especially after a sudden change of circumstances, is apt to be silent, and dwells rather in the heart than on the tongue.
‐‐ Henry Fielding

Great law schools like Northwestern are here to expand the minds of their students, to allow them to achieve their personal goals, to enable them to contribute, to give back in ways that they could not without the education they receive here, and to help them make the greatest country in the world just a little more accessible, a little fairer.
‐‐ J. B. Pritzker

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

Great leaders are willing to sacrifice the numbers to save the people. Poor leaders sacrifice the people to save the numbers.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.
‐‐ Joseph B. Wirthlin

Great leaders don't need to act tough. Their confidence and humility serve to underscore their toughness.
‐‐ Simon Sinek