Great Quotes

"I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed"

Thomas Goodwin, Clergyman

"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

"Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain"

William Lyon Mackenzie King, Politician

"Gardeners are good at nurturing, and they have a great quality of patience, they're tender. They have to be persistent"

Ralph Fiennes, Actor

"Ignorance and inconsideration are the two great causes of the ruin of mankind"

John Tillotson, Theologian

"Jordan has a strange, haunting beauty and a sense of timelessness. Dotted with the ruins of empires once great, it is the last resort of yesterday in the world of tomorrow. I love every inch of it"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children"

Peter Shaffer, Playwright

"It's so much easier to go to the Sony movie complex when you're disabled. You take a great elevator. You get your own little private viewing area. I love it"

Michael Zaslow, Actor

"New York is the great stone desert"

Israel Zangwill, Novelist

"It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here"

Jennifer Lawrence, Actress

"But really, for the most part - doing a prequel is great because you do have room to kind of free this character and how they got to where they are instead of being a slave to exactly what the previous actor did"

Jennifer Lawrence, Actress

"America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming!"

Israel Zangwill, Novelist

"An Oscar means a lot of things because it's like the ultimate award for a filmmaker so it feels great. But I think you have to consider awards with some distance and not get obsessed with it. When you're creating you shouldn't think about it"

Alejandro Amenabar, Director

"Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they"

Thomas Goodwin, Clergyman

"You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration"

James Lane Allen, Author

"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, Leader

"All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence"

Otto von Bismarck, Leader

"That is the difference between good teachers and great teachers: good teachers make the best of a pupil's means; great teachers foresee a pupil's ends"

Maria Callas, Musician

"We oppose occupation of land by force and we believe in dialogue as the method for regaining Arab rights. This is the spirit of the Great Arab Revolt"

King Hussein I, Statesman

"Failure to accord credit to anyone for what he may have done is a great weakness in any man"

William Howard Taft, President

"The hack songwriter will write the absolute truth every single word, whether it makes a great song or not"

Paul Westerberg, Musician

"I'm hard-pressed to think of a lot of great rock movies"

Paul Westerberg, Musician

"It's a fascinating area for me, UFOs have occupied a great part of my life since I was very young"

Dwight Schultz, Actor

"I think that most people really know if it's a really great album"

Carly Simon, Musician

"Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide"

John Dryden, Poet

"I won player of the year and players' player, two cups and two championship medals, had a great time"

Paul Gascoigne, Athlete

"The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"I felt like it was a great secret when I found out that I could be in my 30s"

Kristin Hersh, Musician

"I believe that in a great city, or even in a small city or a village, a great theater is the outward and visible sign of an inward and probable culture"

Laurence Olivier, Actor

"Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting"

Edward de Bono, Psychologist

"I think aerobics are great, of course, but it just bores me out of my mind"

Peter Steele, Musician

"They try to say this era was a tainted era. But so many great players played in the last 15 to 20 years. This is going to be the best era in the history of the game in my opinion"

Rafael Palmeiro, Athlete

"I think video games are a great kind of entertainment. They have replaced a lot of games people normally play with their friends and neighbours, like Monopoly"

Uwe Boll, Director

"The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened"

Howard Nemerov, Poet

"You know, people want to honor me, and on the one hand I just don't want to be a poster child; but on the other, I want to do something classy and great - something where the residuals will go to the cause"

Carly Simon, Musician

"I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me"

Alicia Machado, Celebrity

"If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"Duty is the great business of a sea officer; all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor"

Ernie Harwell, Celebrity

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