Quotes About Great

Bill Clinton was in the line of great progressive presidents who faced the realities in his own time and applied innovative solutions to problems.

Time is a kind of river, an irresistible flood sweeping up men and events and carrying them headlong, one after the other, to the great sea of being.

Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.

Not much longer shall we have time for reading lessons of the past. An inexorable present calls us to the defense of a great future.

What I condemn are our system of values and the men who don't acknowledge how great, difficult, but ultimately beautiful women's share in society is.

You are on the threshold of a great journey, and you must begin to think in terms of what you can do as a powerful spiritual and biological being. Stop with the self-loathing. Stop with imagery of 'the damned' this and 'the damned' that! We are not damned. We never were.

But I did love Blackwood Manor, with the irrational and possessive love that only great houses can draw from us—houses that say, "I was here before you were born and I'll be here after you"; houses that seem a responsibility as much as a haven of dreams.

It struck me with full force that there had been moments in my long life when I would have found his message irresistible, so great had been my loneliness, so great had been my longing to be understood.

Call me Ramses the Damned. For that is the name I have given myself. But I was once Ramses the Great of Upper and Lower Egypt, slayer of the Hittites, father of many sons and daughters, who ruled Egypt for sixty-four years.

The positive effects of war on mental health were first noticed by the great sociologist Emile Durkheim, who found that when European countries went to war, suicide rates dropped.

A very good senior programmer (who might get paid $200,000) gets paid about the same as a great programmer, who delivers $5 million worth of value for the same price. That's enough of a difference to build an entire company's profit around. Do it with ten programmers and you're rich.

I've been around a lot of wraiths, and he doesn't feel like that either, though. It's a strange sensation. Like human wrapped in evil." – Caleb "Oh, great. Our coach is a pig-in-the-blanket for Satan." – Nick

You gonna keep staring at me, Great Acheron, or are you ready to chew me a new one?

I'm currently between assignments and was looking for a change. I heard there was work in Nashville and it seemed like a good place to start over. So here I am stuck in the freezing cold with a…serial killer. Has the making for a great horror movie, huh? (Leta)

This moment is precious and full of great potential: all we have to do is figure out the little changes that will make a huge impact on how wonderful life can be in this moment.

To see great actors bring it all to life us exhilerating

I don't want to change too much. I've had a wonderful life and wonderful success. I want to make this a great success for the American people.

I have such respect for women. My mother was one of the great people I've of known in my life.

It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us.

The chief value of the new fact is to enhance the great and constant fact of life.

I had such a great upbringing in Puerto Rico, and it was just a very normal life.

If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.

I think most great actors have their own life trajectory, the character motion doesn't have anything to do with their life motion.

I am just a normal professional with a great job and a great life.