Great Quotes

"Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings"

"I really want to do a book on the history of the no-wave music scene in New York, how it extended out and formed lots of other things. It was such a great visual culture"

Thurston Moore, Musician

"I won't say there aren't any Harvard graduates who have never asserted a superior attitude. But they have done so to our great embarrassment and in no way represent the Harvard I know"

Derek Bok, Lawyer

"These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character"

Lewis Tappan, Businessman

"Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled"

Katherine Anne Porter, Journalist

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils"

Hector Berlioz, Composer

"I think it's the great thing about having kids. They have interests that you might not have, and it opens your horizons"

Robert Martin, Politician

"In the last 17 years of his working life, my father was finally rewarded with having landed a great job as first, a maintenance engineer, and then a senior locksmith with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York"

Tony Visconti, Musician

"With Whitney she has such a unique sound and powerful instrument that she made those songs her own. She might as well have written them because she brought such a power and passion to them that were very unique. She has a great gift"

Justin Guarini, Musician

"There's always something about the Tonight Show that makes me a little bit anxious, nervous, excited. But it's good. It's good. It's been real good for me. It always has helped my career and Jay and all the people here have always been great"

Jon Secada, Musician

"The mechanical and social achievements of our day must not blind our eyes to the fact that, in all that relates to man, his nature and aspirations, we have added little or nothing to what has been so finely said by the great men of old"

James Loeb, Businessman

"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 C. Hume

"I think all kids think their parents are strict. My parents aren't superstrict, but they seem to be stricter than most. But even though it's like, 'Oh, gosh, I've gotta be in at this time,' they know what they're doing. I have great parents"

Cody Linley, Actor

"I just banged it a little bit on a helmet. And you know, if you get your throwing motion and momentum going at a helmet it makes it hurt a little more and it freaks everybody out because it's your throwing shoulder, but honestly, it feels great"

Mark Sanchez, Athlete

"I not only urge you to vote that ticket yourself, but I beg that you will persuade others to do so. Personal effort can accomplish a great deal, and I beg that you will use your personal influence with your friends to get them to go with you to save the boys"

Thomas Jordan Jarvis, Politician

"That future depends on the values of self-government, our sense of duty, loyalty, self-confidence and regard for the common good. We are a diverse country, and getting more diverse. And these virtues are what keep this great country together"

Jeff Miller, Politician

"People look at me and go, 'You must have it made. You have girls. You have a great life. It's not true. I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know"

John Stamos, Actor

"I think she looked at Vivien the same way. Of course you can. You know. And, and yet with great respect, because she knew how hard it must have been. And that it was even harder for him, of course, than for her"

Mary Stuart Masterson, Actress

"If you want quality service, you have to pay for it. You don't buy into waste. I have great misgivings about the amount of advertising that we see in the health care field, some by hospitals, a lot by drug companies"

David Obey, Politician

"Growing up as an athlete, I started skating very young. My parents didn't know anything about the sport, so they went with the flow. I had two great coaches who gave great advice and gave guidelines for my parents. My parents let the coaches dictate what was going on on the ice"

Kristi Yamaguchi, Athlete

"The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today"

Frederick Soddy, Scientist

"I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre"

Thomas Jane, Actor

"Sex is the great equalizer"

Nick Mancuso, Actor

"No nation is so great as to be able to afford, in the long run, to remain outside an increasingly universal League of Nations"

Hjalmar Branting, Statesman

"Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system"

Norm Coleman, Politician

"America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed"

Allen Boyd, Politician

"Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great"

Fernando Flores, Politician

"In Europe the various ranks of society are, like the strata of the earth, fixed and fossilized. There can be no great change without a terrible upheaval, a social earthquake"

Josiah Strong, Clergyman

"A soul preoccupied with great ideas best performs small duties"

Harriet Martineau, Writer

"Global warming has melted the polar ice caps, raised the levels of the oceans and flooded the earth's great cities. Despite its evident prosperity, New Jersey is scarcely Utopia"

Godfried Danneels, Clergyman

"We should always look upon ourselves as God's servants, placed in God's world, to do his work; and accordingly labour faithfully for him; not with a design to grow rich and great, but to glorify God, and do all the good we possibly can"

David Brainerd, Clergyman

"Great music does not just make me feel good. It means something. It makes us understand. It makes us happy"

Lukas Foss, Composer

"Nothing is more important in the preservation of peace than to secure among the great mass of the people living under constitutional government a just conception of the rights which their nation has against others and of the duties their nation owes to others"

Elihu Root, Lawyer

"Great art is an instant arrested in eternity"

James Huneker, Writer

"Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth"

Edward Dahlberg, Novelist

"Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person"

Christie Brinkley, Model

"There were some extremely good teachers there that were great artists really in their own right. It was actually very hard to concentrate on getting down to going any work being an art student especially when it's a flighty thing at best"

Graham Coxon, Musician

"And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession"

Florenz Ziegfeld, Producer

"I had learned what wealth was, and a great deal about production and exchange for myself in the early history of South Australia - of the value of machinery, of roads and bridges, and of ports for transport and export"

Catherine Helen Spence, Author

"It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it"

Archibald Alexander, Clergyman

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