Great Quotes

• Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out; and when it does come, it is out again immediately.

  

  Matthew Henry
  • Great
  • Fire
  • Wise

• I thank Secretary Clinton and her team for recommending me to serve as the permanent chair of the 2016 Democratic National Convention. It is an honor for me and the people of Ohio. I am happy to serve and look forward to a great convention and our ongoing efforts as we work together for a strong party and a successful election.

  

  Marcia Fudge
  • People
  • Work
  • Together

• It's the kind of turn that happened to the great country of Germany, when Nazis came over and created tragic things, and they had to be told off. And if we continue this kind of violence and accept it in our country, the rest of the world's going to really take care of us, in a very bad way.

  

  Tony Bennett
  • World
  • Country
  • Bad

• No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Great
  • Inspiration

• Doing 'Young Adult' was really reassuring to me in a lot of ways. It confirmed a lot of suspicions I had about great actors.

  

  Patton Oswalt
  • Great

• The English tradition offers the great tapestry novel, where you have the emotional aspect of a detective's personal life, the circumstances of the crime and, most important, the atmosphere of the English countryside that functions as another character.

  

  Elizabeth George
  • Life
  • Important
  • Character

• While at Parsons, I interned at Marc Jacobs, which was great. When I graduated, I went to work at J. Crew; that was also really great.

  

  Chris Benz
  • Work
  • Great

• Riding in advance, we passed over one of these great plains; we looked back and saw the line of scattered horsemen stretching for a mile or more; and far in the rear against the horizon, the white wagons creeping slowly along.

  

  Francis Parkman
  • Great

• I don't like being flattered. It doesn't suit my English sensibilities. Remember, we are the great country of understatement.

  

  Martin Parr
  • Country
  • Remember
  • English

• And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.

  

  Robert Frost
  • World
  • Science
  • Things

• Six out of seven times we landed successfully [on the Moon]. I wanted to be a part of that and I was a part of that, so my personal feeling is of great gratefulness for having somehow been in a position to have been given the opportunity to be on that first landing. That's a marvelous experience for a little kid that grew up in New Jersey. So I'm very thankful, and I asked the whole world to give thanks once we successfully landed.

  

  Buzz Aldrin
  • Up
  • World
  • Experience

• There's not a lot of pure evil in the world, but it's amazing how little it takes to do great damage.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • World
  • Amazing
  • Evil

• Doing nothing and shrinking spending may save us public money in the short term but could cost us a great deal more over time as the recession takes hold for much longer.

  

  Lucy Powell
  • Time
  • Money
  • May

• I know there has long been a great frustration among the African Americans in Nevada over their belief that we have not adequately responded to their desires to become more educated and more productive citizens.

  

  James E. Rogers
  • Great
  • Long
  • Frustration

• We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Believe
  • Pain
  • Endure

• 'The River Wild' was great, with Meryl Streep. That guy was really a bad dude who was ultimately sort of fundamentally impotent in a weird way. That was kind of interesting.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Bad
  • Guy
  • Interesting

• We have great chemistry, great character. Our goals would be to keep everybody -- the coaching staff, the players -- together and hopefully improve next year. We all feel like we've got something going here.

  

  Joe Gibbs
  • Character
  • Together
  • Goal

• I get great satisfaction from both business and philanthropy.

  

  Donald Bren
  • Great
  • Business

• In the world of book writing, an author really gets to have control over what he or she writes, which is why it is very satisfying. With the help of a great compatible editor, you really have something in the end you can call your own.

  

  Liz Tuccillo
  • World
  • Writing
  • Why

• A conscience that is only sluggish, may submit to truth when it happens to meet with it: but a conscience under the seductions of passion, will not submit to it without great difficulty, and will devise some pretext, some expedient, for resisting the voice of truth that openly rebukes it.

  

  Alexandre Vinet
  • May
  • Truth
  • Passion

• These guys were always saying, 'The minute you get onstage, it's great, no matter how much you're hurting.' But that didn't work for me. There were some nights I did not want to get out there.

  

  Jim Carroll
  • Work
  • Great

• I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

  

  Billie Eilish
  • Life
  • Time
  • Friends

• To me, the most important thing is to wear something that I love and feel comfortable in, and Christmas is a great opportunity to get one of my old favourites out.

  

  Amber Le Bon
  • Important
  • Opportunity
  • Christmas

• Creating a billion-dollar company is hard, but being a truly great leader is even harder.

  

  Joe Lonsdale
  • Great

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