Quotes About Great

In the midst of great anxiety and great sadness, it takes an honorable man to nourish the goodness around him, small and fragile as it may seem.

James Allen said it well: "Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain, or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire, or as great as your dominant vision.

Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is 'The Night of the Hunter.' It's full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I just thought it was a fantastical way of using the studio.

We must remind Americans that the promise of opportunity remains unbroken - that every person in this great nation can succeed through hard work, courage and personal responsibility.

The work of the church is not survival. She exists to fulfill the Great Commission. Her work is making disciples of all nations.

The work of the church is not survival. She exists to fulfill the Great Commission.

Aging is scary but fascinating, and great talent morphs in strange and often enlightening ways.

Everyone knows that in a run of normal uneventful years that great eccentric, Time, begets sometimes other years, different, prodigal years which—like a sixth, smallest toe—grow a thirteenth freak month.

There's a Poe thing, right? "One out of one hundred things is discussed at great length because it really is obscure. Ninety-nine out of one hundred things are obscure because they're discussed at more length than they need to be.

The most ignorant woman can become a great actress, under the stress of emotion.

For a Khan of the plank, and a king of the sea and a great lord of Leviathans was Ahab.

But when he spoke, that great voice of his poured out of his chest in words like the snowflakes of winter, and then no other mortal could in debate contend with Odysseus. Nor did we care any longer how he looked.

He had better beware our wrath, great man though he is. What is he doing in his fury but insulting senseless clay?

clear of the ships and shelters!" So he pleaded, lost in his own great innocence ... condemned to beg for his own death and brutal doom.

To you, sedition, violence and fighting are the breath of life. What if you are a great soldier - who made you so but God?

I am the son of a great man. A goddess was my mother. Yet death and inexorable destiny are waiting for me as well.

He Smiled. A great town, that Vegas. You'll have good luck there; you're they type. I know, I said. I'm a Triple Scorpio.

The painter without the critic is nothing. The good critic can make the mediocre famous, the great obscure. His power is limitless; the artist is his servant, and one day will recognize the fact.

To an island people, enclosed on all sides by the sea, the quintessential great fighting admiral occupies a peculiar place in the national imagination.

Yes, I met with Arsene Wenger, who is a great coach. He has a great reputation here in France, he's well-respected and knows how to develop young players.

Pakistan is a great team to be a part of and to see the emergence of young players is exciting.

Arsenal do not have money to spend, so they are gambling on young players. Arsenal are obliged to sell their best players and bet on youth - but what counts is having a team, great players, and a solid squad to win titles.

If you create great opportunities, people around the world will come support your dream.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.