Quotes on Great

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

To put up with what you cannot avoid is a philosophical principle, that may not perhaps lead you to the accomplishment of great deeds, but is assuredly eminently practical.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical.

I aspire to a poetry of great formal integrity, deep passion and high intellect, and I have many models for how to do that.

We know that there will never be a great Newark unless there is a great public school system for our city.

The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine.

Real people speak in my books about the main events of the age, such as the war, the Chernobyl disaster, and the downfall of a great empire.

I've seen the growth of this game in this country, the stadiums that were built, the great European players that have come and the great American players who've been created. Americans want to be number one at everything. And they are at baseball, football, basketball. Soccer is growing fast, and I want to be a part of that.

We say women have made great strides: in biology, in many areas of chemistry, in many places, women are now the majority of medical students. But when I began my career, that wasn't the case. There were very strong stereotypes in biology and medicine.

You can never let anything distract you from your main objective. My only goal is to be great. That's all I want. That's all I ever aspire to be. Greatness is something nobody can ever take away from you, no matter what happens. So I put all my energy and focus into my craft.

He was a great thundering paradox of a man.

The ideas of the great playwrights are almost always larger than the experiences of even the best actors.

The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on.

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't bother me. I was never trying to please her.

The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.

You may have done 20 great shows in a row and come to one, and it doesn't work. You never presume anything.

From the depths of the West of Europe, a young child will be born of poor people, he who by his tongue will seduce a great troop; his fame will increase towards the realm of the East.

Simple ingredients, treated with respect... put them together and you will always have a great dish.

We all want prosperity, but not at the expense of liberty. Poverty is not as great a danger to liberty as is wealth, with its corrupting, demoralizing influences. Let us never have a Government at Washington owing its retention to the power of the millionaires rather than to the will of millions.

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.