Great Quotes

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.

What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

My passion and great enjoyment for architecture, and the reason the older I get the more I enjoy it, is because I believe we - architects - can effect the quality of life of the people.

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Thrift is of great revenue.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.