All Quotes

Great thoughts come from the heart.
‐‐ Luc de Clapiers

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

Great touch is often written off simply as 'talent,' which is crucial, because a good swing can take a golfer only so far. I've seen thousands of fantastic swings in my day, but that doesn't guarantee anything.
‐‐ Arnold Palmer

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.
‐‐ George W. Bush

Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
‐‐ Thomas a Kempis

Great upheavals produce shock waves that widen cracks in political, economic, and security orders. Sometimes the old orders break. Yet it can be in the power of leaders and peoples to shape the directions of change.
‐‐ Robert Zoellick

Great wars can only be fought by great powers.
‐‐ Michael Mandelbaum

Great was the name of Abraham, but all his Sons were not accepted; only Isaac was in the Covenant.
‐‐ John Pearson

Great wealth could make an enormous difference over the next decade if they sensibly support the scientific elite. Just the elite. Because the elite makes most of the progress. You should worry about people who produce really novel inventions, not pedantic hacks.
‐‐ James D. Watson

Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding's selection of a cabinet.
‐‐ George William Norris

Great were the lamentation and the cry when the news of this mischance was noised about the city. Such a tumult of mourning was never before heard, for the whole city was moved.
‐‐ Marie de France

Great wine is always enhanced by great food.
‐‐ Kenneth Cranham

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.
‐‐ Zhuangzi

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
‐‐ John Dryden

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.
‐‐ Leigh Hunt

Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great.
‐‐ Fernando Flores

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

Great writers are the saints for the godless.
‐‐ Anita Brookner

Great writers arrive among us like new diseases threatening, powerful, impatient for patients to pick up their virus, irresistible.
‐‐ Craig Raine

Great writing can be done in biography, history, art.
‐‐ V. S. Naipaul

Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.
‐‐ Kate Mulgrew

Greater economic power will be in the hands of too few.
‐‐ Robert Ludlum

Greater inequality in Europe has made people less happy.
‐‐ Derek Bok

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.
‐‐ John the Apostle

Greater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
‐‐ Lyndon B. Johnson

Greater personal choice, individually tailored services, stronger local accountability, greater efficiency - these are all central to the new direction of travel we have set for our public services.
‐‐ John Hutton

Greater public recognition will also be critical in encouraging prevention and early intervention, and more generally in building public support to meet the challenges of dementia.
‐‐ Julie Bishop

Greater self-esteem produces greater success, and greater success produces more high self-esteem, so it keeps on spiraling up.
‐‐ Jack Canfield

Greater technological connectivity makes the world wider, and the walls of isolation - thinner.
‐‐ Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Greater than scene is situation. Greater than situation is implication. Greater than all of these is a single, entire human being, who will never be confined in any frame.
‐‐ Eudora Welty

Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.
‐‐ Victor Hugo

Greater things are believed of those who are absent.
‐‐ Tacitus

'Greatest American Hero,' I really dug that as a kid because it had an alienation to it, where he was given a gift and didn't know why, and yet he was forced to do something with it, and he was very much an out-of-place character who was trying to cope with his own surroundings, and I can kind of relate to that guy.
‐‐ Rhys Darby

Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.
‐‐ Tina Turner

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.
‐‐ James Russell Lowell

Greatly talented performers don't know - often spectacularly - what's best for them, don't know what their talents really are, and don't know what's just plain wrong for them.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

Greatness and fiasco is the same. You're reaching for something just out of your grasp, and if you get it, it's great, and if you don't, it's a disaster.
‐‐ Noah Hawley

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
‐‐ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Greatness can never be over because you can lay it down for a minute.
‐‐ Timbaland

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.
‐‐ Lionel Richie

Greatness, in order to gain recognition, must all too often consent to ape greatness.
‐‐ Jean Rostand

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
‐‐ James Harvey Robinson

Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
‐‐ Charles de Gaulle

Greatness is a spiritual condition worthy to excite love, interest, and admiration; and the outward proof of possessing greatness is that we excite love, interest and admiration.
‐‐ Matthew Arnold

Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.
‐‐ Mike Tyson

Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.
‐‐ Margaret Chase Smith

Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
‐‐ Dorothy Height

Greatness is so often a courteous synonym for great success.
‐‐ Philip Guedalla

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.
‐‐ Henry Ward Beecher

Greece gave democracy to the rest of the world.
‐‐ Alexis Tsipras