Quotes About Great

As if Misfortune made the throne her seat,And none could be unhappy but the great.

Bootleg, a huge and immovable Great Dane, was also in attendance.

Here, now, they were building a great pattern, she could feel it, and she would trace its shape one day: that was her wyrd, and fate goes on as it must. Today she was swearing to it, swearing here, with her people.

Countless are, as the sand in the sea, the deep desires of men, and none resembles the other, and all of them, whether shameful, or great, in the beginning are obedient, but later become terrible masters over him.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

When people stand up and talk about the great success that the EU has been, I'm not sure anybody saying it really believes it themselves anymore.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

As one half of our nature seeks to create heroes to worship, the other must ceaselessly attempt to cast them down and discover evidence of feet-of-clay, in order to label them as mere lucky fellows, or as villains-were-the-facts-but-known, and the eminent and great are ground between the millstones of envy, and reduced again to common size.

I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine.

In the thirteenth century, however, a really great scientific man appeared, who may be said to herald the dawn of modern science in Europe. This man was Roger Bacon. He

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Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

he is very awesome.

War is the creator, hunger the destroyer, of all great things.

All great discoveries and undertakings spring from the joy strong men feel in victory. They are products of individuality, not utilitarian thought.

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

Few things linger longer or become more indwelling than that feeling of both completion and emptiness when a great book ends. That the book accompanies the reader forever from that day forward is part of literature's profligate generosity.

The basic investment process is simple: Analyze the company and value the stock. If you avoid the mistake of confusing a great company with a great investment—and the two can be very different—you'll already be ahead of many of your investing peers. (Think of Cisco at 100 times earnings in 2000. It was a great company, but it was a terrible stock.)

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

Coyote's Daughter," he said. "We shall sing them to the great death.

N]o nations with a massive debt has ever remained a great power.

Your ability to associate your presence with past great mood memories opens an opportunity for interpersonal intimacy.