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Quotes About Great

If good stuff happened to us until we died it wouldn't be called Life. It would be called Great.
~ Drew
When it comes to a subject like love and art, or daily life and the great work, there are no answers, no conclusions, only conversations, meditations -- and the shining work.
~ Drusilla Modjeska
The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.
~ Jack London
No problem of human making is too great to be overcome by human ingenuity, human energy, and the untiring hope of the human spirit.
~ William J. Clinton
That great, mighty current of evolution which is advancing the life of everything in creation is simply invincible - no one can resist it.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I have a great life, to tell you the truth.
~ Shirley MacLaine
All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated.
~ Nikola Tesla
The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.
~ F. R. Leavis
The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.
~ Iris Murdoch
Great effort from great motives is the best definition of a happy life
~ William Ellery Channing
Time is that wherein there is opportunity, and opportunity is that wherein there is no great time.
~ Hippocrates
What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
~ Charles Baudelaire
Small businesses and large corporations alike reap huge rewards from a great company culture.
~ Jim Knight
A serious modern novelist is one whose books leave you really depressed at the end. A truly great, modern novelist is one who leaves you wanting to kill yourself at the end of the book.
~ Jim Kraus
I am small, but sometimes I am a small part of great things.
~ Jo Walton
Of course great hotels have always been social ideas, flawless mirrors to the particular societies they service.
~ Joan Didion
He's calling us to the Great Exchange--the one where we ccan never lose. As we trade the "many things" that make us anxious, He gives us the "one thing" that calms our hearts. Himself.
~ Joanna Weaver
Earth," Alexa finally said. "It's not that great anyway." And they all smiled sadly. Because, of course, it was everything.
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
He's got a great but unorganized mind
~ Jodi Lynn Anderson
But now we know there has been no one great disaster—only the slow-motion disaster of capitalism converting every living thing and idea into property.
~ Annalee Newitz
The map showed human places I'd never heard of - places that had once been great civilizations, until humans forgot the world wasn't theirs to claim.
~ Anne Bishop
If I am a fool, he said, Then let me be a great fool and not a small one.
~ Anne Enright
Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.1
~ Anne Graham Lotz