Quotes About Great

In our household, which was essentially under an evil spell, my father 'Chaplin' was all the magic. A great man draws magic into himself, like reverse lightning. There's nothing to spare for anyone else.

Wisdom is the power to perceive the best ends to aim at and the best means for reaching those ends. It is the power to perceive the right thing to do. The man who is wise enough to know the right thing to do, who is good enough to wish to do only the right thing, and who is able and strong enough to do the right thing is a truly great man.

It [Democracy] is a great word, whose history, I suppose, remains unwritten, because that history has yet to be enacted.

But legends are part of great events, and if they help keep alive the memory of gallant self-sacrifice, they serve their purpose.

Every great writer is a writer of history, let him treat on almost any subject he may.

you can't help but feel uncomfortable," because it becomes clear that fear of failure "keeps us from attempting great things . . . and life gets dull. Amazing things stop happening." But if you can get past that fear, Dugan said, "Impossible things suddenly become possible.

It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.

Distinction is the consequence, never the object of a great mind.

Man is the only creature on earth that can create his own environment. This is because he is the privileged creation of the Great Creator.

The reality cuts across our minds like a wound whose edges crave to heal, but cannot. Thus, one of the great sins, perhaps the great sin, is to say: It will heal; it has healed; there is no wound. There is nothing more important than this wound.

I'm not close to him." He looked at me defiantly. "But he's put his whole life into this. He's no Freud or Jung or Pavlov or Watson, but he's doing something important and I respect his dedication - maybe even more because he's just an ordinary man trying to do a great man's work, while the great men are all busy making bombs.

Only a man with a damaged canvas of his own can truly be a great restorer.

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.

One of the great bands we opened up for was Priest back in '89. That was really great because at that time we had never met them, never toured with them before. They were a big influence on Slayer, so to open up for them was really cool.

Very little of what he learned of people's actions began or ended with either the noble ideals or the fiendish wickedness he had been taught lay behind all great struggles. There was something comforting in this.

but the meanings hidden in great stories are universal,

Our whole American way of life is a great war of ideas, and librarians are the arms dealers selling weapons to both sides

Tailgate: Ooh! Ooh! What about Orion Pax? What happened to him? Chromedome: Orion Pax? Tailgate: He was GREAT! I really liked him. "I trust him, Roller. End of conversation." I'M gonna start saying stuff like that.

The great spy novelist John Le Carré suggested this axiom: The cat sat on the mat is not the beginning of a story. The cat sat on the dog's mat, is.

what led Twain to this conclusion: a conviction that great fiction, including his own, was necessarily autobiographical.

the dining halls were strangely quiet without that great braying hee-haw of his echoing in its customary place by the milk machine.

But far within him something cried For the great tragedy to start, The pang in lingering mercy fall And sorrow break upon his heart. —EDWIN MUIR

I dare say that's an idea which has already occurred to you, but with the weight of my great mind behind it, no doubt it strikes the imagination more forcibly.

In moments of great stress, every life form that exists gives out a tiny subliminal signal.