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Quotes About Great

It's like the tragedy of the whole world in a little glass,' she said. 'Great things are all smashed to pulp, and none of us who are left have the spirit to carry on.
~ Derek Raymond
That's a great idea," said Erin. "We can hang them all over. Yuck!
~ Diane Goode
Yet—some Frenchman had written—"absence diminishes commonplace passions and enhances great ones.
~ Diane Johnson
You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward
~ Don Miguel Ruiz
Life is great, football is better.
~ Steve Sabol
Courage is an angel which makes the difference between a good life and a great life.
~ Kate Reed
Life is beautiful. Really, it is. Full of beauty and illusions. Life is great. Without it, you'd be dead.
~ Harmony Korine
My dream has come true. I play with the great players and on a great team. I'm smiling and happy and enjoying the time of my life.
~ Alexander Ovechkin
This is the Great Theatre of Life. Admission is free, but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can, and leave when you must. The show is continuous. Goodnight.
~ Robertson Davies
Life's great moments evolve from simples acts of cooperation with God's mysterious promptings.
~ Bill Hybels
People can be great, but they can also be lousy. I am often lousy.
~ Jennifer Niven
Nothing is greater or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue.
~ Jeremy Taylor
The effect of untrue statements on casual conversations is one of my great loves, my great ongoing investigations.
~ Jesse Ball
He has the vision and energy to make Germany great.
~ Jessica Shattuck
Even his funeral, which he anticipates as his last great social affair, is in strict conformance with the pattern.
~ Erich Fromm
They are blue. Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.
~ Erik Larson
hope no fish will come along so great that he will prove us wrong.
~ Ernest Hemingway
he had always had a great tolerance which seemed the nicest thing about him if it were not the most sinister. All
~ Ernest Hemingway
You can't afford the luxury of spurning contempt. A time of contempt is approaching, Witcher, my friend, a time of great and utter contempt. You have to adapt.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
numerous Wizards threw open their windows to see what the noise was. Then, with a roar, the assorted mob of RatStranglers surged through the Great Arch in pursuit of their quarry:
~ Angie Sage
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
~ Anita Brookner
the moon that hung over the garden like some great priceless pearl, flawed and blemished with grey shadowy ridges as only a very great beauty can risk being.
~ Anita Desai
The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.
~ John Moody
Our time here is magic! It's the only space you have to realize whatever it is that is beautiful, whatever is true, whatever is great, whatever is potential, whatever is rare, whatever is unique, in. It's the only space.
~ Ben Okri