Quotes About Great

I think Joe Jackson is a great American figure. In my opinion, he became a scapegoat.

Everyone is entitled to their own political opinions. It is what makes our country great.

In matters of great importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.

It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain.

Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure.

It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have not been wounded.

Yes, he continued, that is one of the great secrets of life. Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

World-history is the history of the great Cultures, and peoples are but the symbolic forms and vessels in which the men of these Cultures fulfil their Destinies.

I can't help your troubles," said Motty firmly. "Listen to me, old thing: this is the first time in my life that I've had a real chance to yield to the temptations of a great city. What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?

Defeat is the test of the great man. Your true general is not he who rides to triumph on the tide of an easy victory, but the one who, when crushed to earth, can bend himself to the task of planning methods of rising again.

What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?

The sexiest thing about men is how they are with kids... If they are great with kids they are real men ... selfless, powerful, comforting ... Too bad so many men suck!

Warriors like Alexander the Great seek sovereignty over the soil; masters like Sri Yukteswar win a farther dominion—in men's souls. It

I've spent most of my life avoiding the companionship of writers. I try never to be rude, just seldom available. Though I have met some of the great writers of our time, I've become good friends with very few of them. The tribe is contentious, the breed dangerous.

I wish nights like this weren't so fragile and slippery and impossible to nail down for study in one's leisure. But the really great nights pass through you like whispers or shadows. They shimmer, but don't adhere.

It is often interesting, in retrospect, to consider the trifling causes that led to great events.

Throughout history, all of mankind's disparate philosophies have all concurred on one thing —- that a great enlightenment is coming.

History is replete with great minds who have all proclaimed the same thing . . . great minds who have all insisted that man possesses mystical abilities of which he is unaware.

The live without understanding the meaning of the world is more like a stroll in the great library of books without touching

A paunchy man in a tuxedo and a black cowboy hat was smiling broadly at him. Great Costume! the man said, pointing to Avila's military uniform. Where does someone get something like that? Through a lifetime of service and sacrifice,he thought

Happiness consists more in conveniences of pleasure that occur everyday than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom.

Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our party the shadow of great and grave burdens.

Servant-leadership is more than a concept, it is a fact. Any great leader, by which I also mean an ethical leader of any group, will see herself or himself as a servant of that group and will act accordingly.

We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.