Famous Quotes: Great

And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.
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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
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Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
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Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.
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Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.
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It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
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The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
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It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
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Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.
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Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
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Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
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Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
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Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.
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Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.
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The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
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One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
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Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.
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It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
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