Quotes About Great

We are living at an extraordinary time in human history. And for many of us things are great. Things are great for me.

I waste a lot of my time documenting my "search for great esoterica" online. It gets so complicated trying to identify or give credit to all of one's influences.

This is a time of great challenges for America, and I pray that the president will be successful in guiding our nation.

I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect.

All I hope for is a moment of rational thought and one shot at action before I'm lost to a great saddening madness,...

Standing above him at all moments of awakeness was the hand of time, and it didn't hesitate to wring him out. It smiled and squeezed and let him live. What great malice there could be in allowing something to live.

What great malice there could be in allowing something to live.

I guess humans like to watch a little destruction. Sandcastles, houses of cards, that's where they begin. Their great skill is their capacity to escalate.

It is a real pleasure to me, who have known the difficulties of such things, to read of so great a success; and when that is due to a man for whom one has feelings of personal friendship, it adds to the happiness of life.

In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

we were forced to raise our minds for the instant from the routine of life and to recognise the presence of those great elemental forces which shriek at mankind through the bars of his civilisation

His eyes sparkled, and he sent up a great blue triumphant cloud from his cigarette.

All geniuses are peculiarly inclined to solitude, to which they are driven as much by their difference from others as the inner wealth with which they are quipped, since among humans, among diamonds, only the uncommonly great are suited as solitaires: the ordinary ones must be set in clusters to produce any effect.

Men of very great capacity, will as a rule, find the company of very stupid people preferable to that of the common run; for the same reason that the tyrant and the mob, the grandfather and the grandchildren, are natural allies.

Great idea, I said. Call the police. Call the fucking police.

This knowledge of the preservative qualities of honey, at a time when the sugar-cane was unknown in the western world, is no doubt responsible for the fact that the entire body of Alexander the Great was preserved in honey, and viewed by lots and lots of people, some of whom no doubt exclaimed, "Isn't he sweet!

It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt.

And you know that if you looked at these facts when you are happy, you would feel great because you are describing unity.

At one point Churchill growled that "the destinies of two great empires . . . seem to be tied up in some Goddamned things called LSTs.

1725. The year of The Tour Seasons. The year that Peter the Great became less so, in that he died.

Fantasy fiction is essentially about the concept of power; great fantasy fiction is about people who find it at great cost or lose it tragically; mediocre fantasy fiction is about people who have it and never lose it but simply wield it.

To those readers who feel that I didn't know any better, I assert that I did ... but the temptation was simply too great to resist.

What great wrong did you ever do that you should inspire such terrible loyalty in so many?

Do you know great minds enjoy excellence, average minds love mediocrity and small minds adore comfort zones?