Great Quotes

• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • True
  • Religion
  • Blood

• Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Father
  • Judge

• This next song is only dedicated to beautiful people here tonight. That means all of you. Thank you for coming along... and making this a great occasion.

  

  Freddie Mercury Queen
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Song

• Hiking is a great passion of mine, and I find myself picking up empty bottles.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Hiking

• Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

  

  E. B. White
  • Time
  • Great
  • Funny

• Negro equality! Fudge!! How long, in the government of a God, great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend, and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagougeism as this?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Long
  • Universe

• I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Respect
  • Come From
  • Do My Best

• Good artists copy, great artists steal.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Good
  • Great
  • Copy

• Looking fifty is great-if you're sixty.

  

  Joan Rivers
  • Great

• Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is always Judas who writes the biography.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Nowadays
  • Disciples

• When two great saints meet, it's a humbling experience.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Experience
  • Two
  • Saint

• may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Good
  • Trying
  • May

• And lastly there is the oldest and deepest desire, the Great Escape: the Escape from Death. Fairy-stories provide many examples and modes of this … Fairy-stories are made by men not by fairies. The Human-stories of the elves are doubtless full of the Escape from Deathlessness.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Men
  • Death
  • Desire

• But I come here today, Berlin, to say complacency is not the character of great nations.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Character
  • Today
  • Complacency

• We Americans can be rightly proud of the fact that the right to the free and unfettered exercise of religion is a primary principle in the vision and founding of our country. It defines us as a people, and has uniquely contributed to making this nation great.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • People
  • Country
  • Free

• The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Minds
  • Virtues
  • Vices

• Women played no part in Athenian high culture. They could not vote, attend the theatre, or walk in the stoa talking philosophy. But the male orientation of Greek culture was inseparable of its genius. Athens became great not despite but because of its misogyny.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Women
  • High
  • Culture

• A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Different
  • Society
  • Man

• I feel really lucky to have had 'War and Peace' as my first big telly job. I was playing this incredible character, and we were shooting in Catherine the Great's palace near St. Petersburg in the winter, when the river was frozen. It was a dream. I still can't believe it. I wanted to soak up every last minute.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Character

• In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins.

  

  Antoni Tapies
  • World
  • Done
  • Art

• Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • War
  • Die

• What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Great
  • Man
  • Literature

• When I was fourteen years old, our family drove all the way from Vancouver to Newfoundland and back. I've been all across the great land of Canada. I absolutely love the Maritimes, and I'm very excited to go back, particularly in the fall when it's one of the most beautiful places on Earth.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Family
  • Beautiful
  • Earth

• Great music is its own movie, already. And the challenge, as a music fan, is to keep the song as powerful as it wants to be, to not tamper with it and to somehow give it a home.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • Music
  • Home
  • Movie

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