Top 1000 Great Quotes & Sayings
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Last updated on September 16, 2024.
Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.
For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
I was working on a heat pump that used water as a working fluid, and I made some jet pumps for it. I accidentally shot a stream of water across a bathroom where I was doing the experiment and thought to myself, 'this would make a great gun.'
In an individual sport, yes, you have to win titles. Baseball's different. But basketball, hockey? One person can control the tempo of a game, can completely alter the momentum of a series. There's a lot of great individual talent.
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.
Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
A documentary film is a great way of helping people understand because, somehow, when one is able to see the people involved, it lends a certain immediacy and understanding that is hard to get on the page.
The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.
The spirit of celebration and togetherness is a great source of inspiration.
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.
I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
I feel like life is really short, and it's important to enjoy yourself and embrace whatever comes your way, whether it's a challenging day or a great day, just welcome it with open arms. No matter who you are, you can't escape challenges; they are part of life.
Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
For precocity some great price is always demanded sooner or later in life.
Fame is great when everything in your life is going well. But when it goes wrong, when you're having to jump on a bus, because you can't afford to pay for a taxi, and you catch people looking at you. It might sound strange, but you feel ashamed. And that's hard to deal with.
No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
Great graphics requires more than just high-performance hardware. Gamers know software is just as important.
Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.
Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Thrift is of great revenue.
People who become 'elite' at what they do aren't striving to be 'elite' just to join some special club. They take great joy and satisfaction in the pursuit of mastery, and they compete against themselves, not others.
The media transforms the great silence of things into its opposite. Formerly constituting a secret, the real now talks constantly. News reports, information, statistics, and surveys are everywhere.
An entire nation, it seemed, was standing in one long breadline, desperate for even the barest essentials. It was a crisis of monumental proportions. It was known as the Great Depression.
When you play in a great club like Real Madrid, it's hard to stay here.
Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
No great pastry chef has sweet teeth.
The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Never was anything great achieved without danger.
If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.
We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy.
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.
The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.
One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.
For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
Don't be afraid to give up the good for the great.
On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
I want the great masses of my people to take a greater pride in their appearance and to give their hair proper attention.
My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
Great acts are made up of small deeds.
To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
