All Quotes

'The Great Gatsby' ticked so many boxes for me.
‐‐ Joel Edgerton

The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you.
‐‐ Jean de la Bruyere

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.
‐‐ Basil Hume

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.
‐‐ Meryl Streep

The great-great-grandfather of my mother was probably using gelatins.
‐‐ Jose Andres

The great growling engine of change - technology.
‐‐ Alvin Toffler

The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.
‐‐ Thomas P. Campbell

The great help of being in the Army is to understand why are the armies clever in what they describe as emotional intelligence, making soldiers come to terms with the death of comrades by certain rituals.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who built and lived in them, but of the people who worked there, of the local area, of all of us.
‐‐ Julian Fellowes

The Great Idea in advertising is far more than the sum of the recognition scores, the ratings and all the other superficial indicators of its success; it is in the realm of myth, to which measurements cannot apply.
‐‐ Leo Bogart

The great increase of our population throughout the Union will alone produce an important effect, and in no quarter will it be so sensibly felt as in those in contemplation.
‐‐ James Monroe

The Great Inflation of the 1970s destroyed faith in paper assets, because if you held a bond, suddenly the bond was worth much less money than it was before.
‐‐ Ron Chernow

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
‐‐ Percy Bysshe Shelley

The great irony of management is that the higher up you go, the less actual control you have. When you are but a humble coder, you make the computer do exactly what you want; when you're a manager, you only hope that people understand what you want, and then trust/pray that they do it both correctly and in a timely manner.
‐‐ Jon Evans

The great jazz radio stations have a duty to continue evolving their format just as audiences ask the musicians to evolve. How do you do that with a form of music that has 100 years of recorded history? How do you also keep it contemporary so you don't isolate your listeners? These are major questions.
‐‐ Jason Moran

The great Jewish scientists and philosophers of the last few generations - Spinoza, Einstein, Freud, Robert Oppenheimer and others - were natives of Europe and America.
‐‐ David Ben-Gurion

The great joy of being a prosecutor is that you don't take whatever case walks in the door. You evaluate the case; you make your best judgement. You only go forward if you believe that the defendant is guilty.
‐‐ Merrick Garland

The great joy of doing 'The Daily Show' for me is that I get to sit on the fence between cultures. I am commenting on the absurdity of both sides as an outsider and insider. Sometimes I'm playing the brown guy, and sometimes I'm not, but the best stuff I do always goes back to being a brown kid in a white world.
‐‐ Aasif Mandvi

The great leaders are like the best conductors - they reach beyond the notes to reach the magic in the players.
‐‐ Blaine Lee

The great leaders have always stage-managed their effects.
‐‐ Charles de Gaulle

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war aims were not only to defeat fascism, but to create a world of shared prosperity.
‐‐ Jeffrey Sachs

The great lesson I get from 'Moby-Dick' is that when the times are bad, when there is great foreboding, there are still ways to go about living. It's through Ishmael that I find a kind of overall cosmic approach to a meaningful life in this meaningless world.
‐‐ Nathaniel Philbrick

The great lesson in theatre is that you live the story every night, and that is a wonderful vehicle for getting to the richest places in a performance or investing a character with the richest life.
‐‐ Celia Weston

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.
‐‐ Dan Rather

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.
‐‐ Herbert Hoover

The great liberation of imaginative writing is that you're not held back by the facts.
‐‐ Gerald Vizenor

The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence

The great love of my life is music.
‐‐ Mandy Patinkin

The great majority of Americans do not know much about Islam but nonetheless fear it as violent, expansionist and alien to their society. The problem to overcome is not hatred, but ignorance.
‐‐ Tariq Ramadan

The great majority of Baghdad is a slum - a lot of it's new, but it's still slum. It's usually this concrete-block, one-room design with a door and a window, arranged one-up, one-down, often with a shop with nothing in it on the first floor, and then a one-room apartment above it. There's street after street after street of that stuff.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
‐‐ Stendhal

The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.
‐‐ Rebecca Solnit

The great majority of Scientologists I know are good people who are genuinely interested in improving conditions on this planet and helping others.
‐‐ Paul Haggis

The great majority of the nobility and gentry of England clung to the doctrine and ceremonies of the ancient church, and yet were united in determination to oppose the papal claims.
‐‐ Sabine Baring-Gould

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
‐‐ Mencius

The great man who gives a true transcript of his mind fascinates and instructs. Most writers suppress individuality. They wish to please the public.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

The great marriages are partnerships. It can't be a great marriage without being a partnership.
‐‐ Helen Mirren

The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
‐‐ D. H. Lawrence

The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
‐‐ Kate Millett

The great medical facilities are a relief for the parents, too, who don't have to think about caring for their young ones on their own for a weekend. They have a great time.
‐‐ Jami Gertz

The great medley of Oregon and California emigrants, at their camps around Independence, had heard reports that several additional parties were on the point of setting out from St. Joseph's farther to the northward.
‐‐ Francis Parkman

The great men of a nation reach out to all mankind. They are unifying, not divisive; internationally conciliating and still great nationally.
‐‐ Gustav Stresemann

The great men of power who seek to change the nations they belong to usually are pretty terrible people.
‐‐ John Keegan

The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

The great mistake these people make is that they go to looking after the spiritual welfare of the Indians before securing their physical.
‐‐ George Crook

The great moments of rock 'n' roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.
‐‐ Bono

The great moral powers of the soul are faith, hope, and love.
‐‐ Ellen G. White

The great music for so many artists - the Beatles, the Rolling Stones - was always at the moment when they were closest to pop. It would be easy for U2 to go off and have a concept album, but I want us to stay in the pop fray.
‐‐ Bono

The great musicians are those who can reach people, who can make people feel something.
‐‐ Sam Rivers