Great Deal Quotes

• One can hardly tell women that washing up saucepans is their divine mission, so they are told that bringing up children is their divine mission. But the way things are in the world, bringing up children has a great deal in common with washing up saucepans.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Children
  • Mission
  • Great Deal

• I don't really have a great deal of spare time. I still have a house in the country, but I'm in London 90 percent of the time.

  

  Bryan Ferry Roxy Music
  • Time
  • House
  • Great Deal

• Climbing the economic ladder has been very hard for me; I still feel a great deal of guilt towards those I left behind.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Guilt
  • Climbing
  • Great Deal

• We did spend a great deal of time together while making this album (Pyromania). We spent a month in Ireland during preproduction without anyone or anything except our instruments and our amps. And believe me, a situation like that can really test your friendship. It's even tougher than being on the road where you have plenty of diversions to occupy your time. When you're thrown together in close quarters with only each other to deal with, your really find out what everyone's like. We came through that with flying colours, and that cohesiveness carried over to the recording session as well.

  

  Steve Clark Def Leppard
  • Together
  • Friendship
  • Recording

• I was much affected by the internal troubles of the Punch family; I thought that with a little more tact on the part of Mrs. Punch and some restraint held over a temper, naturally violent, by Mr. Punch, a great deal of this sad misunderstanding might have been prevented.

  

  Edmund Gosse
  • Family
  • Violent
  • Troubles

• I've always been keenly aware of the passing of time. I've always thought that I was old. Even when I was twelve, I thought it was awful to be thirty. I felt that something was lost. At the same time, I was aware of what I could gain, and certain periods of my life have taught me a great deal. But, in spite of everything, I've always been haunted by the passing of time and by the fact that death keeps closing in on us.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Old
  • Thirty
  • Passing Of Time

• Everyone we knew was forming a band. Boy George, Wham! Sade. But it wasn't a big deal, they were our friends. It wasn't like we were hanging out with pop stars.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Friends
  • Band
  • Great Deal

• What matters," said the prince at last, "is that you have a child's trusting nature and extraordinary truthfulness. Do you know that a great deal can be forgiven you for that alone?

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Prince
  • Trusting
  • Forgiven

• If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Faith
  • Prayer
  • Great Deal

• The woman you buy takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself to you takes all your money.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Money
  • Gives
  • Great Deal

• The circumstances seemed to be simple; but they who understood such matters declared that the duration of a trial depended a great deal more on the public interest felt in the matter than upon its own nature.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Circumstances
  • Duration
  • Public Interest

• Just a fun thing for me to do with a good friend who has meant a great deal for me and my family.

  

  Bobby Allison
  • Fun
  • My Family
  • Good Friend

• I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Hand
  • Opinion
  • Great Deal

• One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Understand
  • Perfection
  • Great Deal

• One has to give a great deal of oneself to animals if one is to get the best out of them.

  

  Barbara Woodhouse
  • Animals
  • Give
  • Great Deal

• I certainly and deliberately introduced a great deal of variety into the people in the clamshell, which I suppose grows out of growing up in an individualistic society we profess to have.

  

  Bill Reid
  • Society
  • Variety
  • Profess

• The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.

  

  Emily James Smith Putnam
  • Planet
  • Lady
  • Explanation

• Barack Obama is a man who is causing us and will cause us a great deal of harm constitutionally and personally.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • Cause
  • Barack Obama
  • Great Deal

• ... a little philosophy carries a man from God, but a great deal brings him back again.

  

  Bathsua Makin
  • God
  • Philosophy
  • Great Deal

• When man subverted order he did a great deal more than merely fall away from the rationality of his nature, diminish his own humanity, which is all that he does in Aristostle's ethics, nor he did merely compromise his destiny by an error, as it happens in the Plathonic myths; he brought disorder into the divine order, and presents the unhappy spectacle of a being in revolt against Being. Every time a man sins he renews this act of revolt and prefers himself to God; in thus preferring himself, he separates himself from God; and in separating himself, he deprives himself of the sole end in which he can find beatitude and by that very fact condemns himself to misery.

  

  Etienne Gilson
  • Humanity
  • Destiny
  • Separates

• I believe the deeply rooted semantic confusion between 'man' as a male and 'man' as a species has been fed back into and vitiated a great deal of the speculation that goes on about the origins, development, and nature of the human race.

  

  Elaine Morgan
  • I Believe
  • Confusion
  • Human Race

• For those who support same-sex marriage - and I support it without reservation - the ideal of equality and the belief in the dignity of same-sex relationships necessarily makes the issue seem a great deal like the civil-rights struggles of the past.

  

  Benjamin Wittes
  • Support
  • Marriage
  • Relationships

• Elites are once again invoking Reagan, dropping their Gs and saying things in a folksy sort of way thats meant to capture the hearts of people. And its all fraud; its all stagecraft. And people are falling for a great deal of elite behavior in this country packaged as if its proletariat behavior.

  

  Eugene Jarecki
  • Behavior
  • Hearts
  • Elites

• She spent a great deal of time staring into space, oppressed by the sense that she was waiting. But waiting for what? She did not know. Surely someone would call, someone must be needing her. Yet each day proceeded like the one before. Nothing intense, nothing desperate, ever happened. Time did not move. The home, the city, the nation, and life itself were eternal; still she had a foreboding that one day, without warning and without pity, all the dear, important things would be destroyed.

  

  Evan S. Connell
  • Waiting
  • Destroyed
  • Desperate

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