Great Quotes

Eye was a great discovery. He is one of the great vocalists of all time.

Every great discovery I ever made, I gambled that the truth was there, and then I acted in faith until I could prove its existence.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

Because the sad fact is that the Enron Corporation and others manipulated with unfortunately great effect the energy market in the West Coast starting in 2000.

The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

There is a great deal of political pressure to only talk about abstinence, and to deny support for condoms and education on using them. This policy will lead to the unnecessary deaths of many people.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.