Quotes of Great - somelinesforyou

“ Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance. ”

- Bruce Barton

“ The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. ”

- Michelangelo

“ Was a great high wall there that tried to stop me. Was a great big sign there said private Property but on the back side it didn't say nothing. That side was made for you and me. ”

- Woody Guthrie

“ Diplomacy is to do and say, the nastiest thing in the nicest way. ”

- Isaac Goldberg

“ I think it's a wonderful idea and the animation and stories are terrific. ”

- Gary Lineker

“ In great moments life seems neither right nor wrong, but something greater: it seems inevitable. ”

- Margaret Sherwood

“ None think the great unhappy, but the great. ”

- Edward Young

“ A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness — great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ Behind every great man there is a great woman; and behind that woman is his wife. ”

- Unknown

“ Life is a great surprise. I don't see why death should not be an even greater one. ”

- Vladimir Nabokov

“ Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. ”

- Colin Powell

“ I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves. ”

- John Wayne

“ The world knows nothing of its greatest men. ”

- Sir Henry Taylor

“ Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree. ”

- Ezra

“ Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. ”

- Unknown

“ Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any. ”

- Mark Twain

“ They are raised on high that they may be dashed to pieces with a greater fall. ”

- Claudian

“ All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ It was a big deal. There was a lot of criticism leveled her way, and she handled it like the outstanding person she was and is to this day. ”

- Richard Adams

“ Great men are not always idiots. ”

- Karen Elizabeth Gordon

“ There's one thing about baldness, it's neat. ”

- Don Herold

“ When I behold, upon the night's starred face, / Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance. ”

- John Keats

“ Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. ”

- Voltaire

“ My great-great-great-I may be missing a great there-grandfather was called Guillermo Prieto, and he was a very popular poet in his day, and a journalist and a member of President Juarez's Cabinet. ”

- Alma Guillermoprieto

“ There is no need to reach high for the stars. They are already within you - just reach deep into yourself! ”

- Unknown

“ Oh yes, she's terrific. ”

- Rachel Weisz

“ Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ It's significant to note that a 'bumper-to-bumper' automobile warranty doesn't include the bumpers. ”

- Andrew Green
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