Great - Quotes & Sayings
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin FranklinYou are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.
Alan WattsOur nuclear scientists and engineers have done a splendid job, and naturally, the entire nation has risen to salute their professional excellence, discipline, and patriotism. They have had the benefit of having been led in the past by great men like Homi Bhabha and Vikram Sarabhai.
Atal Bihari VajpayeeWhen many work together for a goal, Great things may be accomplished. It is said a lion cub was killed By a single colony of ants.
Saskya PanditaI live for my daughter. Every decision I make is about her and for her. It's great. She's perfect.
Gareth GatesGreat minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
William Ellery ChanningWe believe that every single child has boundless promise, no matter who they are, where they come from, or how much money their parents have. We've got to remember that. We believe that each of these young people is a vital part of the great American story.
Michelle ObamaI think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.
Luis MiguelIt takes a great man to be a good listener.
Calvin CoolidgePeople who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable.
Dita Von TeeseThe further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
Benedict CumberbatchGreat is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.
Aldous HuxleyAs soon as a redwood is cut down or burned, it sends up a crowd of eager, hopeful shoots, which, if allowed to grow, would in a few decades attain a height of a hundred feet, and the strongest of them would finally become giants as great as the original tree.
John MuirYou know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.
Dave ChappelleIn real estate, you make 10% of your money because you're a genius and 90% because you catch a great wave.
Jeff GreeneIf the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao TzuCivil engineers build bridges. Electrical engineers, power grids. Software engineers, apps. From the engineers who created the Great Pyramids to the engineers who are designing and developing tomorrow's autonomous vehicles, these visionaries and their tangible creations are inextricably linked.
Dinesh PaliwalWhat's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.
Jason Robert BrownIt is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
Sun TzuBehind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Honore de BalzacAny great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.
Steven SeagalThere are two Mustafa Kemals: one is I, the flesh and bone Mustafa Kemal... the scond Mustafa Kemal I cannot describe with the word 'I.' That Mustafa Kemal is not I - it is 'We.' That Mustafa Kemal is the enlightened and warrior collectivity that is striving for the new thought, the new life, and the Great Ideal on every corner of this country.
Mustafa Kemal AtaturkBut I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.
Tom HanksA great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Ansel AdamsFor the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
Jose Ortega y GassetThe atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.
Harry S TrumanI went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.
Hamilton JordanI have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
Ice CubeGet up early and go to the local produce markets. In Latin America and Asia, those are usually great places to find delicious food stalls serving cheap, authentic and fresh specialties.
Anthony BourdainWe live in a dancing matrix of viruses; they dart, rather like bees, from organism to organism, from plant to insect to mammal to me and back again, and into the sea, tugging along pieces of this genome, strings of genes from that, transplanting grafts of DNA, passing around heredity as though at a great party.
Lewis ThomasGreat men are rare, poets are rarer, but the great man who is a poet, transfiguring his greatness, is the rarest of all events.
John DrinkwaterI am unboreable in the great outdoors.
P. J. O'RourkeGreat industries are never made from single companies. There is room in space for a lot of winners.
Jeff BezosOne of the main lessons I have learned during my five years as Secretary-General is that broad partnerships are the key to solving broad challenges. When governments, the United Nations, businesses, philanthropies and civil society work hand-in-hand, we can achieve great things.
Ban Ki-moonWhat 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 TocquevilleNo great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas CarlyleI had a wonderful life and was blessed with so many loving people and great friends.
James ArnessIt is not, of course, complete yet - but some sentences were understood this afternoon... I feel that I have at last struck the solution of a great problem - and the day is coming when telegraph wires will be laid onto houses just like water or gas - and friends converse with each other without leaving home.
Alexander Graham BellI can't even explain how blessed I am and how fortunate that I have such a great team that believes in me.
Holly HolmGreat men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.
Charles DickensThe great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.
MenciusI think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.
Bill MaherAsean is obviously a very important association for us. Over the past 30 years Asean has made great strides in regional cooperation covering a number of areas, although recently it has been under strain because of the financial crisis and other challenges.
Hassanal BolkiahGreat talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
Carl JungIt is of great importance to our country generally, and especially to our navigating and whaling interests, that the Pacific Coast and, indeed, the whole of our territory west of the Rocky Mountains, should speedily be filled up by a hardy and patriotic population.
James K. PolkUntil you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.
CherGreat loves too must be endured.
Coco ChanelYou say that you are my judge; I do not know if you are; but take good heed not to judge me ill, because you would put yourself in great peril.
Joan of ArcGreat lives never go out; they go on.
Benjamin HarrisonI think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.
Huey Newton