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Quotes About Great

Great is the art of beginning, but greater the art is of ending.
~ Unknown
I came to realize clearly that the mind is no other than the Mountain and the Rivers and the great wide Earth, the Sun and the Moon and the Sky".
~ Lord Byron
You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.
~ Loretta Lynn
I don't want to talk about it," she said. Once again he was close. Too close. So damn close. "At all," she added, hearing with some alarm that her voice had softened. Everything had softened, at just his proximity. "Ever," she whispered, and found her gaze locked on his mouth. He had a really great mouth.
~ Jill Shalvis
Maybe I'd been shut away in my lab too long, but Spenser never mentions that the Faerie Queen has a great ass.
~ Jim Butcher
Encyclopaedia Britannica's Syntopicon, which sets forth "The 102 Great Ideas of Western Man
~ Joan Didion
I gave the couple a hint of a design that would work great with the bones of their home. They weren't ready for it, and they embarrassed themselves and that's too bad.
~ Douglas Wilson
He's my favorite ex-husband. We get along great. I love to fish, and he has some beautiful property down there.
~ Jane Fonda
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and long honourable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
~ Unknown
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.
~ Christina Milian
The LORD saw how great man's wickedness on the earth had become, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time. (Genesis 6:5)
~ Unknown
For men, life is cool with us spending our time trying to understand them. Because great despair has a gender, too.
~ Virginie Despentes
We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die a sustainable world. It could be great.
~ Vivienne Westwood
Unity is a great thing and a great slogan. But what the workers' cause needs is the unity of Marxists, not unity between Marxists, and opponents and distorters of Marxism.
~ Vladimir Lenin
The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
~ Voltaire
Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.
~ W. B. Yeats
Stand and answer! Why are ye come? By whom are ye sent to trouble me? I am a knight of the Great King. In the King's Name, speak! ~Sir Constant
~ Unknown
Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery.
~ W.B. Yeats
Oh great, socks. You know I'm dying for your sins right? Yeah, but thanks for the socks! They'll go great with my sandals. What am I, German?
~ Jim Gaffigan
The title of that great Christmas song was 'Boogie Woogie Santa Claus,' and no one ever heard of it.
~ Patti Page
There are about a dozen great computer graphics people and Jim Blinn is six of them.
~ Ivan Sutherland
Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things.
~ Bill Gates
I know that life is a doorway to eternity, and yet my heart so often gets lost in petty anxieties. It forgets the great way home that lies before it.
~ Sophie Scholl
On many of the great issues of our time men have lacked wisdom because they have lacked courage.
~ William Benton