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Small: It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without
Jose Rizal
"It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice"
Jose Rizal, Writer
Small: I said when I came into office that I dont want to be a great leader I want to be a good democrat
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
"I said when I came into office that I don't want to be a great leader; I want to be a good democrat"
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Politician
Small: Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few
Pythagoras
"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few"
Pythagoras, Mathematician
Small: The moment you think you understand a great work of art, its dead for you
Oscar Wilde
"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
Small: Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
William Ellery Channing
"Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life"
William Ellery Channing, Writer
Small: Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day
Thornton Wilder
"Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day"
Thornton Wilder, Writer
Small: Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm
Oscar Wilde
"Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm"
Oscar Wilde, Dramatist
Small: As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that
"As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit"
Emmanuel Teney, Author
Small: We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I cant, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics
Rick Wright
"We worked very hard to make the lyrics suit the music. I can't, like Elton John, for example, compose by lyrics. Elton has a great talent for that. Whatever you give him, including your questions, he composes in half an hour and makes a great song out of it"
Rick Wright, Musician
Small: This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey t
Paul Castellano
"This life of ours, this is a wonderful life. If you can get through life like this and get away with it, hey that's great. But it's very predictable. There's so many ways you can screw it up"
Paul Castellano, Criminal
Small: Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken hee
Philo
"Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind"
Philo, Philosopher
Small: Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is
Phillips Brooks
"Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing - where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do"
Phillips Brooks, Clergyman
Small: I love being married. Its so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life
Rita Rudner
"I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life"
Rita Rudner, Comedian
Small: In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great an
Charles Caleb Colton
"In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good"
Charles Caleb Colton, Writer
Small: I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great
Steven Adler
"I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty years of great music wasn't created because of some stupid grudge. That's a shame"
Steven Adler, Musician
Small: From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right
Samuel Butler
"From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right"
Samuel Butler, Poet
Small: All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness
John Ruskin
"All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness"
John Ruskin, Writer
Small: To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them
"To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them"
Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher
Small: Theologians have a great problem because theyre seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everyth
John Polkinghorne
"Theologians have a great problem because they're seeking to speak about God. Since God is the ground of everything that is, there's a sense in which every human inquiry is grist to the theological mill. Obviously, no theologian can know everything"
John Polkinghorne, Physicist
Small: In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discour
Vincent Van Gogh
"In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing"
Vincent Van Gogh, Artist
Small: People assume Im out there having this great life, but money doesnt erase the pain. When youre young you barre
Jennifer Lopez
"People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there"
Jennifer Lopez, Musician
Small: Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite i
"Although, I am proud of all my Symphonies as they all have something special to say, my particular favourite is the Fifth. As the great Mahler expert Donald Mitchell said that if Mahler had written another Symphony, it would have been my Fifth!"
Malcolm Arnold, Composer
Small: Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie
"Great CEOs are not just born with shiny hair and a tie"
Marc Andreessen, Businessman
Small: We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems
John W. Gardner
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems"
John W. Gardner, Educator
Small: Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensel
Elsa Schiaparelli
"Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale"
Elsa Schiaparelli, Designer
Small: The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it
"The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it"
Dorothy L. Sayers, Author
Small: Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who neer loved them
William Shakespeare
"Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them"
William Shakespeare, Dramatist
Small: All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, sti
Adolf Hitler
"All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people"
Adolf Hitler, Criminal
Small: God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that
Frank Lloyd Wright
"God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chi
Frank Lloyd Wright
"Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world"
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Small: A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conques
Benjamin Disraeli
"A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art"
Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman
Small: All great truths begin as blasphemies
George Bernard Shaw
"All great truths begin as blasphemies"
George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist
Small: Great and good are seldom the same man
Winston Churchill
"Great and good are seldom the same man"
Winston Churchill, Statesman
Small: There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
Small: It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone"
Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Writer
Small: Every calling is great when greatly pursued
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
"Every calling is great when greatly pursued"
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet
Small: I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is f
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere"
Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Playwright
Small: Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with
Helen Keller
"Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged"
Helen Keller, Author
Small: The banalities of a great man pass for wit
"The banalities of a great man pass for wit"
Alexander Chase, Author
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