Great Quotes

"I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"I would like to give it a name: it is the great fortress of Europe"

Heinrich Himmler, Criminal

"Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty"

Horatio Nelson, Soldier

"That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were"

Paul Muldoon, Poet

"It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

"There is a great deal of human nature in man"

Charles Kingsley, Clergyman

"You're gonna get your traditional Busta Rhymes and Pharrell collabo. My man Focus from the Aftermath crew; Dr. Dre; the late, great J Dilla got work on the album. It's gonna be great - look forward to the new bang-out"

Busta Rhymes, Musician

"I'm going to have to pick my shots and play great tennis"

Andre Agassi, Athlete

"A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society"

B. R. Ambedkar, Politician

"You can be great only if it is your destiny"

Andrea Bocelli, Musician

"The great work must inevitably be obscure, except to the very few, to those who like the author himself are initiated into the mysteries. Communication then is secondary: it is perpetuation which is important. For this only one good reader is necessary"

Henry Miller, Writer

"I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian"

Larry David, Actor

"Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness"

Billy Graham, Clergyman

"Music is a great energizer. It's a language everybody knows"

Bill Hicks, Comedian

"No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit"

Andrew Carnegie, Businessman

"No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it"

Andrew Carnegie, Businessman

"Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil"

Henry Miller, Writer

"I've never believed that pop music is escapist trash. There's always a darkness in it, even amidst great pop music"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"I think maybe since there isn't a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don't understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out"

Thom Yorke, Musician

"The Bible is the great family chronicle of the Jews"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

"The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy"

Milton Friedman, Economist

"Power is the great aphrodisiac"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision"

Henry A. Kissinger, Statesman

"I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous"

Queen Victoria, Royalty

"Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves"

Queen Victoria, Royalty

"Women priests. Great, great. Now there's priests of both sexes I don't listen to"

Bill Hicks, Comedian

"I'm a great housekeeper. I get divorced. I keep the house"

Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress

"No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance"

Henry Miller, Writer

"The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

"Like a great poet, Nature knows how to produce the greatest effects with the most limited means"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

"As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow"

Joseph Butler, Clergyman

"The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so"

George Whitefield, Clergyman

"Human misery is too great for men to do without faith"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained"

Arthur Conan Doyle, Writer

"If the people raise a great howl against my barbarity and cruelty, I will answer that war is war, and not popularity seeking"

William Tecumseh Sherman, Soldier

"What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

"Here's a little newsflash for those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I'm going to Washington to serve this great country"

Sarah Palin, Politician

"America is looking for answers. She's looking for a new direction; the world is looking for a light. That light can come from America's great North Star; it can come from Alaska"

Sarah Palin, Politician

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