Great Quotes
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Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.
Claudius Claudianus
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There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought.
Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
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When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks.
Jon Gruden
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The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.
John Philip Sousa
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Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?
John O. Brennan
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I was married once--in San Francisco. I haven't seen her for many years. The great earthquake and fire in 1906 destroyed the marriage certificate. There's no legal proof. Which proves that earthquakes aren't all bad.
W. C. Fields
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I cannot do business. I cannot sit and say, 'How are you, the weather's great, how's your golf?' I'm like a bull in a china shop.
Cilla Black
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All new tools are useful to animators, but great animation comes down to great animators.
Dean DeBlois
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It wasn't necessary to win for the story to be great, it was only necessary to sacrifice everything.
Donald Miller
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Two kinds of people are good at foreseeing danger: those who have learned at their own expense, and the clever people who learn a great deal at the expense of others.
Baltasar Gracian
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Luckily I've had a lot of great friends that I've had for a long time.
Jenna Bush
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It's one thing I like about America - they respect the sportsman. They put them up on a pedestal. They don't try to knock them down. And that's a great thing, to be respected by the whole country. It's so patriotic!
David Beckham
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I have had some great successes and great failures. I think every entrepreneur has. I try to learn from all of them.
Kevin O'Leary
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A great many of those who 'debunk' traditional...values have in the background values of their own which they believe to be immune from the debunking process
C. S. Lewis
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On my best day, I am a seven-point-seven. I could be a hard eight if I felt great. If I went on a good run and had on my best pair of jeans, I could feel right on the money.
Julia Roberts
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There's a great fear of the imagination. It's a dangerous thing. It's out of control, it's subversive.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
Charles Horton Cooley
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I remembered the way out suggested by a great princess when told that the peasants had no bread: 'Well, let them eat cake'.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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I say thank you in advance to us all working together to achieve great victories, not just electorally for Labour but emotionally for the whole of our society to show we don't have to be unequal, it doesn't have to be unfair, poverty isn't inevitable, things can and they will change. Thank you very much.
Jeremy Corbyn
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Comedy Central was a great network, but 'Chappelle's Show' took it to a completely different level. Other shows got bigger because so many viewers were watching the 'Chappelle' reruns. For BET, the 'Real Husbands of Hollywood' has that same potential.
Kevin Hart
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All of us want to know that we are doing great things, that we are touching a lot of people, and that what we are doing is something bigger than ourselves.
Alan Mulally
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At Pixar, we do sequels only when we come up with a great idea, and we always strive to be different than the original.
John Lasseter
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Taking even one therapy session is just one step in the right direction to getting help and getting better, so I think it's great. I love it. I've convinced a lot of my friends to get into therapy, and they've given it a shot. Sometimes it's not for everybody at that time.
Tyler Posey
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One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.
Paddy Ashdown