Great Quotes

"And if the great fear had not come upon me, as it did, and forced me to do my duty, I might have been less good to the people than some man who had never dreamed at all, even with the memory of so great a vision in me"

Black Elk, Leader

"While our country has made great strides in breaking down the barriers which for so long denied equal opportunity to all Americans, we are not yet the beautiful symphony of brotherhood of Dr. King's dream"

Adam Schiff, Politician

"I had a great first year and Mr. MacDonald was my biggest supporter. He gave me the encouragement I needed that first year to get my career started on a positive note"

Jim Evans, Athlete

"When reflecting upon it today, that the Pearl Harbor attack should have succeeded in achieving surprise seems a blessing from Heaven. It was clear that a great American fleet had been concentrated in Pearl Harbor, and we supposed that the state of alert would be very high"

Hideki Tojo, Soldier

"Skiing makes me feel great, and it gives my legs such an incredible workout"

Joely Fisher, Actress

"There are many members of parliament present here who know as well as I do that, if a man has not already been converted, it will require a great deal more than a letter of appeal to achieve conversion"

Fredrik Bajer, Writer

"Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role"

Dean Acheson, Statesman

"Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality"

James A. Garfield, President

"An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft"

Walter Bagehot, Author

"Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods"

David Ricardo, Economist

"Grandfather, Great Spirit, once more behold me on earth and lean to hear my feeble voice"

Black Elk, Leader

"Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other"

Albert Pike, Lawyer

"Shakespeare wrote great plays that we're still watching all these years later. Charlie Chaplin made great comedies and they are still as funny today as they ever were"

Leonard Maltin, Critic

"Addressing global resentment cannot be put off. If we do not learn to use our predominant power with great restraint, we will antagonize the world"

Lee H. Hamilton, Politician

"The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle"

Harvey Keitel, Actor

"Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely"

Matt Cameron, Musician

"The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border"

Dave Winfield, Athlete

"It's really a grand old, legendary theatre where the spirits of like Judy Garland and all these great performers have been. The clubs are way more underground"

Deborah Cox, Musician

"If we are going to stay a great power and I hope and pray we will we need the truth. We need to know what is going right and we need to know what is going wrong. There is no greater time than now"

Charles Schumer, Politician

"The great artist is a slave to his ideals"

Christian Nestell Bovee, Author

"I feel great identification with the developing world"

Bianca Jagger, Celebrity

"It has been the great fault of our politicians that they have all wanted to do something"

Anthony Trollope, Author

"Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions"

A. E. Housman, Poet

"In the same period, Polish literature also underwent some significant changes. From social-political literature, which had a great tradition and strong motivation to be that way, Polish literature changed its focus to a psychological rather than a social one"

Andrzej Wajda, Director

"There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too"

Anna Quindlen, Journalist

"It wasn't like it is now. But for the types of teams we had, the fans were very good here. On some Thursday afternoon games, we'd get 25,000 fans. That was remarkable. This has always been a great Red Sox city"

Curt Gowdy, Celebrity

"Very few of the great leaders ever get through their careers without failing, sometimes dramatically"

Phil Crosby, Author

"When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity"

Bob Newhart, Comedian

"If I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling"

Olivia Wilde, Actress

"Well, with the French language, which I understood and spoke, however imperfectly, and read in great quantities, at certain times, the matter I suppose was slightly different from either Latin or Greek"

Robert Fitzgerald, Author

"They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none"

Robert Toombs, Politician

"Besides, we had a large debt, contracted at home and abroad in our War of Independence; therefore the great power of taxation was conferred upon this Government"

Robert Toombs, Politician

"Time and space - time to be alone, space to move about - these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow"

Edwin Way Teale

"So I've had really great assistant directors for my last seven movies"

John Frankenheimer, Director

"Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play"

Joseph Goebbels, Criminal

"We are just fanatics about using the technology to make it all wonderful. We laughed at the fact that we were having such a great time working this way"

Al Jarreau, Musician

"It was like two different photographers, and shot in three different locations and it was really fun to do. There were 12 beautiful girls in it. It was great"

Gisele Bundchen, Model

"But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling"

Olivia Wilde, Actress

"The great menace to the life of an industry is industrial self-complacency"

Joyce Carol Oates, Novelist

"I certainly have no plans to leave London. It's a great town"

Ewan McGregor, Actor

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