Quotes About Great

You must stand up for multilateralism. You must make trade great again.

I think L.A. has got a great lifestyle, but I love New York. You couldn't do 'Broad City' in L.A. because L.A. is a much gentler place. The standard of living is so different.

Wouldn't it be great if our national news media had standards as high as the National Football League's?

I've seen such great material, and now I'm more picky with the type of jobs that I take because it's gotta be there. There's an old theater saying: 'If it's not on the page, it's not on the stage'... You gotta have some type of standards as far as the jobs that you take and the roles that you take on.

But what I'd really like to tell you is I never dreamed of being in the Hall of Fame. Standing here with all these great players was beyond any of my dreams.

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

The question that stands in the foreground is not 'Do we need this technology?' No one denies the great chances and the great opportunities that we have in the fight against poverty, the handling of climate issues, the fight against sickness.

Fester has a lot going for him. He's 120 volt AC and DC, and he's great with dynamite. His only trouble is that he's one of the great losers of our time. He would make a great spy, but he kinda stands out in a crowd.

Bertrand Russell would not have wished to be called a saint of any description; but he was a great and good man.

Salvation is so great a thing, so glorious an attainment, that 'tis worth the while for a man to do his utmost every day during his whole life in the use of all proper means that he may attain.

When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it.

Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics.

One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel.

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity than they really are.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.

As men are affected in all ages by the same passions, the occasions which bring about great changes are different, but the causes are always the same.

Men endowed with a wild imagination should have, in addition, the great poetic faculty of denying our universe and its values so that they may act upon it with sovereign ease.

He [Hitler] is a very great man. "Fuhrer" is the proper name for him, for he is a born leader, yes, and statesman.

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.

We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men.

Great men should drink with harness on their throats.

In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.

I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing," the old man said. "They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand.