Great Quotes

"People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do"

"No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things"

Ernest Dimnet, Priest

"I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here"

Arnold Schwarzenegger, Actor

"A lie is just a great story that someone ruined with the truth"

Barney Stinson, Actor

"Suffering is one of life's great teachers"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

"We thought it would be great to see if you could put pop music back into musical theater"

Neil Tennant, Musician

"Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion"

Thornton Wilder, Writer

"If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist"

Ellen Terry, Actress

"Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"Winning the Outstanding Contribution award is great, because you know you have won in advance. Previously, I have been really nervous during the ceremony because you have no idea if you are going to get called up on stage. This time I could relax and enjoy myself"

Tom Jones, Musician

"Great minds have purposes; others have wishes"

Washington Irving, Writer

"The English light is so very subtle, so very soft and misty, that the architecture responded with great delicacy of detail"

Stephen Gardiner, Architect

"I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit"

John Steinbeck, Author

"Great men always pay deference to greater"

Walter Savage Landor, Poet

"Adult stem cells have shown great potential and have effectively helped patients. Another alternative is cord-blood stem cells. These are a neglected resource that could be used to treat a diverse body of people"

Jim Ryun, Athlete

"With reference to other religions, the Church sees a great difference between them and herself. The other religions are expressions of the human soul seeking God, with some beautiful spiritual insights, but also not without errors. Christianity is rather God seeking humanity"

Francis Arinze, Clergyman

"Cancer is a disease where the patient can contribute a great deal of help himself if he or she can retain their morale and their hopes"

George Carman, Lawyer

"The drama is a great revealer of life"

George P. Baker

"Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation"

Dora Russell, Celebrity

"I think that to a very great extent we are partners with the divine in this enterprise called history. That is an ongoing relationship, and there is absolutely no guarantee that things will automatically work out to our best advantage"

Chaim Potok, Author

"I think now that the great thing is not so much the formulation of an answer for myself, for the theater, or the play-but rather the most accurate possible statement of the problem"

Arthur Miller, Playwright

"I decided to become a painter when my first four paintings where all published and attracted a great deal of interest. I exhibited one of them and it was sold"

John Dyer, Artist

"The banalities of a great man pass for wit"

Alexander Chase, Author

"There was never a great man who had not a great mother"

Olive Schreiner, Writer

"Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything"

Sydney Smith, Clergyman

"Speeches are not magic and there is no great speech without great policy"

Peggy Noonan, Writer

"In this Epistle, the Apostle seeks, with great earnestness, to confirm the Christian converts in the belief of that Gospel, which he had so faithfully preached"

John Strachan, Clergyman

"I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

"Is bankrupting this great country the top priority of this administration?"

Corrine Brown, Politician

"Russian Communism is the illegitimate child of Karl Marx and Catherine the Great"

Clement Attlee, Leader

"God is only a great imaginative experience"

David Herbert Lawrence, Writer

"I think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green"

Garry Shandling, Comedian

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes"

Stanley Kubrick, Director

"Good writers borrow from other writers. Great writers steal from them outright"

Aaron Sorkin, Producer

"Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted"

Robert Benchley, Comedian

"I think it's great that we have organisations like Greenpeace. In a pluralistic society, we want to have people who point out all the problems that the Earth could encounter. But we need to understand that they are not presenting a full and rounded view"

Bjorn Lomborg, Scientist

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