Great Quotes

The anchors now made are contrived so as to sink into the ground as soon as they reach it, and to hold a great strain before they can be loosened or dislodged from their station.

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

A comfortable house is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience.

Music itself is a great source of relaxation. Parts of it anyway. Working in the studio, that's not relaxing, but playing an instrument that I don't know how to play is unbelievably relaxing, because I don't have any pressure on me.

Hope and optimism have defined my political career, and I continue to be hopeful and optimistic about Canada. Young people have been a great source of inspiration for me.

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place.

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

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

I am here by the will of the Great Spirit, and by his will I am chief.

Each man is good in the sight of the Great Spirit.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place.

I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself.

When I am in form, my style is a little bit stubborn, almost brutal. Sometimes I feel a great spirit of fight which drives me on.

It is an understanding with the Great Spirit or Creator that we will follow these ways.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.

It is incumbent upon each of us to improve spending and savings practices to ensure our own individual financial security and preserve the collective economic well-being of our great society.

If I had been elected president in 1948, history would be vastly different. I believe we would have stemmed the growth of Big Government, which had begun with the New Deal and culminated with the Great Society.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

Great souls suffer in silence.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.