All Quotes

The great mystery is why robots come off so well in science-fiction films when the human characters are often so astoundingly wooden.
‐‐ John Podhoretz

The great mystery to me is how restaurant critics think they can get away with doing their job without anybody noticing who they are.
‐‐ Ted Allen

The great myth that many social scientists want to encourage is that there is an incompatibility between modern technology and traditional religion. This is absolute nonsense. If anything, it's the reverse.
‐‐ Rodney Stark

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
‐‐ Stanley Kubrick

The great object is that every man be armed.
‐‐ Patrick Henry

The great object of the institution of civil government is the improvement of those who are parties to the social compact.
‐‐ John Quincy Adams

The great opera composers were so good at their job, that the whole genre came to be built around the concept of the composer's vision.
‐‐ Stewart Copeland

The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

The great outdoors is a theme with me; a walking holiday in Scotland is perfect - Culloden and the forests of Aviemore are both favourites.
‐‐ Erin O'Connor

The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest problems we face internationally are problems of the human soul.
‐‐ Ralph Peters

The great people I've met always have time for the niceties.
‐‐ Mercedes McCambridge

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.
‐‐ Jean Baudrillard

The great philosophers and the great works are standards for the selection of what is essential. Everything that we do in studying the history of philosophy ultimately serves their better understanding.
‐‐ Karl Jaspers

The great photographers of life - like Diane Arbus and Walker Evans and Robert Frank - all must have had some special quality: a personality of nurturing and non-judgment that frees the subjects to reveal their most intimate reality. It really is what makes a great photographer, every bit as much as understanding composition and lighting.
‐‐ Caleb Deschanel

The great player, so much of the greatness, in my mind, is in his heart and his head. It's not in his body, in his skill set. It comes from having great talent but wanting to mold that and fit it together into being special. And being special means winning championships.
‐‐ George Karl

The great pleasure for me in writing short stories is the fierce, elegant challenge.
‐‐ Amy Bloom

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious - are far from conventionally heroic.
‐‐ John Burnside

The great poems are not about experience, but are the experience itself, felt in the body.
‐‐ David Whyte

The great poet is a great artist. He is painter and sculptor. The greatest pictures and statues have been painted and chiseled with words. They outlast all others.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world.
‐‐ Robert Green Ingersoll

The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call this part of the psyche the 'compassionate witness.' Sharing our difficult feelings with a compassionate witness is the crucial step that heals the infinite small wounds inflicted upon the soul by everyday life.
‐‐ Martha Beck

The great power the president has is that he is the most prominent person in the biggest media event on the planet. He has the attention of the nation and the world. When he speaks, everybody listens.
‐‐ David Frum

The great principle of Western society is that competition rules here as it rules in everything else. The best man - that is to say, the strongest and cleverest - is likely to get the best woman, in the sense of the most beautiful person.
‐‐ Lafcadio Hearn

The great privilege it has been to work with some of the most talented people on the face of the earth. My first scene in a movie was with James Cagney, for goodness sakes. There I was, just out of the U.S. Navy without an acting lesson to my name.
‐‐ Dean Jones

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.
‐‐ Rem Koolhaas

The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
‐‐ Samuel P. Huntington

The great problem was the selection of the readymade. I needed to choose an object without it impressing me: that is to say, without it providing any sort of aesthetic delectation. Moreover, I needed to reduce my own personal taste to absolute zero.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

The great problems of the Twentieth century will have immediate relation to the discoveries of America, of Africa, and of Australia.
‐‐ Joseph Jacobs

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.
‐‐ Ma Jian

The great quest of life has always been to discover truth.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.
‐‐ Laurence J. Peter

The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the devastating loss it will bring? I believe yes, there are some freedoms which to sacrifice would be EVEN worse.
‐‐ Anne Perry

The great question of our day is whether we, the Jewish people of Israel, can find within us the will to survive as a nation.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon

The great question of our time is, 'Will we be motivated by materialistic philosophy or by spiritual power?'
‐‐ Billy Graham

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'
‐‐ Sigmund Freud

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.
‐‐ Otto von Bismarck

The Great Recession rocked the foundation of every financial institution, including Johnson Bank. We were struggling, and it was happening under my watch.
‐‐ Helen Johnson-Leipold

The great redemptive religion which has always been known as Christianity is battling against a totally diverse type of religious belief, which is only the more destructive of the Christian faith because it makes use of traditional Christian terminology.
‐‐ John Gresham Machen

The great regret of my life is that I didn't have children.
‐‐ Charlie Rose

The great responsibility that we have today is to put the poor and the near poor back on front of the American agenda.
‐‐ Jesse Jackson

The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than you.
‐‐ Katharine Whitehorn

The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
‐‐ Johann Kaspar Lavater

The great Satyr and Tiger of Hyrcania presents a gift to those of the Ocean; A fleet's chief will set out from Carmania, one who will take land at the Tyrren Phocaean.
‐‐ Nostradamus

The Great Seal was an early proclamation of 'humanitarian intervention,' to use the currently fashionable phrase.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.
‐‐ Gary Ross

The great secret behind classified projects is that most of them are so utterly boring and uninteresting that James Bond wouldn't even take a second look at them.
‐‐ Kevin J. Anderson

The great secret is that an orchestra can actually play without a conductor at all. Of course, a great conductor will have a concept and will help them play together and unify them. But there are conductors that actually inhibit the players from playing with each other properly.
‐‐ Joshua Bell