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Quotes About Great

Washington is no place for a good actor. The competition from bad actors is too great.
~ Fred Allen
I understand from those who adore him, he [Julian Assange] has a great sense of humor which rarely gets an airing because he's dealing with such serious issues.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
I don't even have any good skills. You know like nunchuck skills, bow hunting skills, computer hacking skills. Girls only want boyfriends who have great skills!
~ Jon Heder
The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck.
~ Walter Cronkite
Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.
~ William Butler Yeats
A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.
~ George Meredith
I am proud that [I was] , , , enabled to guide this great talent . . . towards the superb fulfillment of its individual potentialities, towards the greatest independence.
~ Alban Berg
Live with your memories and keep them as memories and that's great. Forget the bad times just remember the good ones and you know and hope tomorrow is a good day
~ Roger Meddows Taylor
I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.
~ Tim Duncan
You don't fear change. You fear the unknown. If you knew the future would be great, you'd welcome the change to get there. Well, the future IS great. Proceed.
~ Joe Vitale
The longing for happiness and freedom from suffering expresses the great natural potential of mind.
~ Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar.
~ Cathy Guisewite
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.
~ William Butler Yeats
Kids can have great passion and great ability but if you have the facilities for your particular sport that can give you the inspiration to become a sportsman.
~ David Beckham
Recovery challenges the established order and as such, is a 'great idea' along with the ideas of evolution or a 'round earth'; turning all our thinking upside down.
~ Laurie Davidson
You have to be first, different, or great. If you're one of them, you may make it.
~ Loretta Lynn
Small herbs have grace, great weeds to grow apace.
~ William Shakespeare
Just like life, it was over much too soon. And just like life, there weren't any answers. But like that one-in-an-eight-million great New York moment, I didn't need one. (Dark City Lights)
~ Peter Carlaftes
You can inspire millions through positivity and live in abundance, I did. Life is great.
~ Genereux Philip
The Southern whites are in many respects a great people. Looked at from a certain point of view, they are picturesque. If one will put oneself in a romantic frame of mind, one can admire their notions of chivalry and bravery and justice.
~ James Weldon Johnson
You know what? I never really factor Hollywood into anything. I'm a black actor, so I can't really control what Hollywood thinks. I gotta go do my thing, and my jokes have got to be funny. Whatever I do has got to be great.
~ Jamie Foxx
Mercy is the mark of a great man! (stabs defeated opponent) I guess I'm just a good man. (stabs opponent again) Well ... I'm alright.
~ Jane Espenson
We are all caught in the stream of a complicated legacy - a proof of the limits of human reason, a proof of our boundlessness. A declaration that were were down here on this crowded, lonely planet, a declaration that we mattered, we living clumps of ash, that each of us was once somebody, that we strove for what we could never have, that we could admit as much. That was us - funny and lousy and great all at once.
~ Janna Levin
Bad leadership during the past years has cast on our Party the shadow of great and grave burdens.
~ Janos Kadar