Great Quotes

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

Mention Hubert Sumlin, as well, because Hubert's a great man, and again, you know, I don't play the guitar very good, but when I'm playing this kind of music, I always have him in my mind. I wish I could play like Hubert.

The Jewish people asked nothing of its sons except not to be denied. The world is grateful to every great man when he brings it something; only the paternal home thanks the son who brings nothing but himself.

Without the connotation good or bad, bin Laden's a great man in the sense that he's influenced the course of history.

There is no disputing that Lincoln was a great man.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

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

Marijuana. Boy, I thought that was just terrible. How could this great man do this to his life?

The banalities of a great man pass for wit.

Joe Jackson is a great man. The problem that people have with my father is that he tells it like it is. He's just straight up and doesn't beat around the bush. Tough love.

There we were, hundreds of us lined up, waving at the great man as he tipped his hat to us. And that is the extent of my acquaintance with Albert Einstein.

Maybe I'm not a great man but I damn well want to break the record.

It's awfully hard to be the son of a great man and also of a half-crazy woman.

Behind every great man there is a suprised woman.

Sooner will a camel pass through a needle's eye than a great man be "discovered" by an election.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

In this view, the role of the great majority of Americans is simply to buy the products produced, work happily for their wages, and leave all of the significant economic decisions to the capitalists.

Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.

The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

Unless the great majority of Americans not only have, but believe they have, a fair chance, the better American future will be dangerously compromised.

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or "the people," constitute the great majority of those affected.

If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.

Measurements of the specific ionization of both the positive and negative particles, by counting the number of droplets per unit length along the tracks, showed the great majority of both the positive and negative particles to possess unit electric charge.

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes industry of the Philippines, and so every time there was a shoe fair, I would receive a pair of shoes as a token of gratitude.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.