Great Quotes

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

I love the Roth IRA. Tax-free income in retirement is a truly great deal.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.

A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.