Great Quotes

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Business is not just doing deals; business is having great products, doing great engineering, and providing tremendous service to customers. Finally, business is a cobweb of human relationships.

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly; let him rejoice.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Love and death are the two great hinges on which all human sympathies turn.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

We are all one - or at least we should be - and it is our job, our duty, and our great challenge to fight the voices of division and seek the salve of reconciliation.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

Cloning is great. If God made the original, then making copies should be fine.

Oh, my God, my thirties blew! Forties are great.

The fun stuff comes when someone is not so strict on sticking to the script. You're allowed the spontaneity, and great moments can happen.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!