Quotes About Great

Noble bold is an accident of fortune; noble actions characterize the great. [It., Il sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.]

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

Nations in their great ages have not been great in art or science, but in art and science.

All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.

The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history.

Whether they be young in spirit, or young in age, the members of the Democratic Party must never lose that youthful zest for new ideas and for a better world, which has made us great.

Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there.

Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.

The most appropriate governmental powers are negative-those, that is, that protect the small and the weak from the great and powerful, not those by which the government becomes the profligate, ineffectual parent of the small and weak after it has permitted the great and powerful to make them helpless.

We human beings have a great defect, which is that we are all too often willing to both spread and enforce our ideas with violence.

The sun will shine at midnight, and the Great Elephant will not dim it.

After 1196 the vigorous merchant-aristocrats of Novgorod dominated the assembly that ruled the principality through its elected prince. The city-state was a free republic, and called itself "My Lord Novgorod the Great." If

One day he asked a visitor whence he came. "From Mr. Haller's." "He is a great man," said Voltaire; "a great poet, a great naturalist, a great philosopher, almost a universal genius." "What you say, sir, is the more admirable, as Mr. Haller does not do you the same justice." "Ah," said Voltaire, "perhaps we are both mistaken.

A sailor? A common sailor? A common ordinary seaman bests the great Inigo Montoya with the sword? In-con-ceiv-a-ble. He must be the Dread Pirate Roberts. Otherwise it makes no sense.

Like most great revolutionaries he could thrive only in evil times, at first when the masses were unemployed, hungry and desperate, and later when they were intoxicated by

At dawn a great shark mouth appears at the horizon smiling like a stupid angel and chewing silently on the sky.

The surprise about great service experiences is that they are mostly forgettable and occasionally remarkable

two million hits per hour… "I was on the ice when the great bird came.

renewal, a "national crusade to make America great

When I think of the definition of cool and when I look at people, John Travolta is really the definition of cool because, not only is he great in all his movies, but, as a person, he's just really cool.

the world would not let him rave, this was the great injustice he suffered from: he stalked up and down being angry, in futility;

This is the hour of the Shire-folk," declares Elrond, "when they arise from their quiet fields to shake the towers and counsels of the Great.

The traffic system needs a complete rethink," mused Bryant as the unit's only allocated vehicle, a powder-blue Vauxhall with a thoroughly thrashed engine, accelerated through Belsize Park. "Look at these road signs. Ministerial graffiti." "It's no use lecturing on the problem, Arthur. That's why your driving examiner failed you thirty-seven times." "What makes you such a great driver?' "I don't hit things.

The great and good receive their accolades. But love can surround in glory the lives of little people. Pam Brown