Quotes About Great

The streets of New York and some wards of its venerable institutions were packed with people who, despite being entirely forsaken, had episodes of glory that made the career of Alexander the Great seem like a day in the life of a file clerk.

If the author of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms and The Old Man and the Sea and the Nick Adams stories had been an undersized weed, asthmatic or phthisic, living out strong-man fantasies in the literature he produced, he would still be one of the great American writers.

The Great Bird will take its flight on the back of the great bird, bringing glory to the nest where it was born.

For the one and only time I caught a glimpse of a great heart as well as of a great brain.

He was in stature but a small man, yet remember that so were Napoleon, Lord Beaverbrook, Stephen A. Douglas, Frederick the Great, and the Dr. Goebbels who is privily known throughout Germany as Wotan's Mickey Mouse.

Reading old Gray?  That's right.  Physician's library just three books:  'Gray's Anatomy' and Bible and Shakespeare.  Study.  You may become great doctor.

My great moment of triumph ... It's all turned to dust. I wasn't the heroine of the hour. I was the thoughtless, stupid villain.

You are my great example, you, your life your destiny, Oedipus, man of misery— I count no man blest.

Life is weird, great and dangerous.

The blogosphere gives me my life, I am fortunate to have developed relationships with great websites who allow me to reach a whole ton of new people everyday.

Devotion as an act is vulgar. Devotion as a way of life is wonderful. If you are a great devotee, it is ugly. If you are devout, it is beautiful.

The Cold War was really the great struggle of the 20th Century and it shaped American political life from top to bottom.

Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.

Your country can be a footstool for God, if he finds people in all spheres of life who will prepare their bodies for the Great King

The Great law is God's commandment.

Every wonderful quality "in" someone is waiting to be recognized in all of life's great symphony.

And remember, it truly is a great Life

the Dutch were another matter. Although the republic's population was tiny compared with that of France or Spain, it had emerged as a great power. It owed that power to trade, to carrying and handling the goods of others.

God is decreeing to begin some new and great period in His Church, even to the reforming of Reformation itself: what does He then but reveal Himself to His servants, and as His manner is, first to His Englishmen?

It is our duty and delight to adore our great God, but he is not honored by ignorant adoration, for that can only be a charade. Adoration must be based on some knowledge, otherwise it is not God himself whom we adore.

In Revelation 18:18 John refers to that "great city," rhetorically asking "was there ever a city like this great city?" Some have wondered why John didn't say "nation" or "country," instead of "city.

There's a famous line from Eleanor Roosevelt that goes, "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Women will have but one purpose: to give birth to more of Us. That Is All! They say the great civilizations collapsed when We threatened to take over. Theyve missed the point. They collapsed because We didnt go to the inevitable limit: which is complete

Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma.