Great Quotes

One of the great things about 'Jericho' that is a parallel with 'Over There' is, in this country, we tend to forget the news we don't want to know about. We're so oversaturated with media and other images that we can turn our head a little bit.

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair.

Halfway through the decade, we realized that we had a great team and that we could do great things, and that we could probably have something here that we believed we had a chance to reach greatness.

One of the great things that you should never do that I learned from John Malkovich is to never judge your characters.

Throughout his life, Ronald Reagan believed America is capable of great things and its people could and would lead the way if left unburdened by taxation and regulation.

I think politicians do great things in the world, but I don't think they're the only ones who can. I don't like all the rhetoric and the finger pointing.

When 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.

In the United States Senate, we cannot do great things without reaching across the aisle and working together - and I look forward to the challenges ahead.

One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

There is a woman at the beginning of all great things.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

To be one, to be united is a great thing. But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.'

To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.

No great thing is created suddenly.

The great thing that guys like Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg and the Google guys have in common is they treat their technology like it's art, and I suppose in the hands of virtuosos like them, it is.