Great Quotes

"I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it"

"And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father"

"We feel that, with Sidney, we have a great opportunity over the next few years to put a great team on the ice. We're prepared to lose some money along the way. Eventually we're going to need some help"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"Oh, how great peace and quietness would he possess who should cut off all vain anxiety and place all his confidence in God"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

"There was never a nation great until it came to the knowledge that it had nowhere in the world to go for help"

Charles Dudley Warner, Journalist

"It is probably safe to say that all the changes of factual knowledge which have led to the relativity theory, resulting in a very great theoretical development, are completely trivial from any point of view except their relevance to the structure of a theoretical system"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"Among those who are satisfactory in this respect it is desirable to have represented as great a diversity of intellectual tradition, social milieu and personal character as possible"

Talcott Parsons, Sociologist

"You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you"

Robert Plant, Musician

"I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl"

Robert Plant, Musician

"I was very sad to hear of the death of Ronnie Barker, who was such a warm, friendly and encouraging presence to have when I started in television. He was also a great comic actor to learn from"

John Cleese, Actor

"For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard"

John Cleese, Actor

"If we are intended for great ends, we are called to great hazards"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature"

John Henry Newman, Clergyman

"It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great"

Henry Ellis, Psychologist

"If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we sigh"

Lord Acton, Historian

"Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise not blame"

Thomas Kempis, Writer

"Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached"

Simone Weil, Philosopher

"Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"I know Mama Rose is a great role and I love having a chance to do it"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"Getting plenty of sleep is always great. It really is. I have a girlfriend who's sending me a slant board"

Bernadette Peters, Actress

"Great things are accomplished by talented people who believe they will accomplish them"

Warren G. Bennis, Psychologist

"A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep"

Saul Bellow, Novelist

"The cross is the great paradox of Christianity. More than a few have tried to explain it as a kind of cosmic child abuse perpetrated by God the Father on God the Son. But anyone who has ever loved knows that love is about sacrifice, and the cross is the ultimate sacrifice of love"

Pope Benedict XVI, Pope

"They look so expectant, and then they look so depressed... that was the other great lesson that The Royal Hunt of the Sun taught me, it was the profundity that masked drama can achieve, that of course, the audience were not seeing masks moving at all"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"Good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends"

Maria Callas, Musician

"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for"

Homer, Poet

"For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it"

Homer, Poet

"But then I always wanted to play for Rangers. Man United is a great club and Alex Ferguson is a legend"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?"

Howard Nemerov, Poet

"Great Socialist statesmen aren't made, they're still-born"

Hector Hugh Munro, Novelist

"I've been lucky to broadcast some great events and to broadcast the exploits of some great players"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

"Also I'm a part of the people that I've worked with in baseball that have been so great to me, Mr. Earl Mann of Atlanta, who gave me my first baseball broadcasting job"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

"Sometimes it's just harder to remind yourself about what you're doing and why you're doing it... Other times, you have a great desire for it, but physically you're not responding the way you want. That presents other challenges. Then sometimes it all comes together"

Andre Agassi, Athlete

"Life should be great rather than long"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

"Dinosaurs was a cool idea, but we just couldn't find a way to make it really fun. We've got a bunch of great game ideas that we want to bring to life over the next several years"

Sid Meier, Scientist

"The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today"

Hank Stram, Athlete

"To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind"

John Tillotson, Theologian

"Donnie Brasco was great, but the energy on the set made it kinda hard to get in there and have an opinion"

Gretchen Mol, Actress

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