You must be careful when you ask people whether they’re happy; it’s a question that can upset them a great deal.
Mary Fisher lives in a High Tower, on the edge of the sea: she writes a great deal about the nature of love. She tells lies.
I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about.
A great deal of thought is only a substitute for the thoughts that the individual would really find useful at the time.
You differ from a great man in only one respect: the great man was once a very little man, but he developed one important quality: he recognized the smallness and narrowness of his thoughts and actions. Under the pressure of some task that meant a gr...
Once we got to eating, the idea of happiness returned to me. Not the feeling, the idea. Would a regular girl be happy simply eating a hot meal with a great deal of chew to it? Maybe happiness is a simple thing. Maybe it's as simple as the salty taste...
[On scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss] [Carl Friedrich] Gauss told his friend Rudolf Wagner, a professor of biology at Gottingen University, that he did not believe in the Bible but that he had meditated a great deal on the future of the human soul and ...
You see, at Rugby I was rather a great man. There one had a share in the ruling of 300 boys, and a good deal of responsibility; but here one has only just to take care of oneself, and keep out of scrapes; and that's what I never could do.
I can assure you Mr. Zureikat never gave me a penny from an oil deal, a cake deal, a bread deal or from any other deal.
The silence wasn't uncomfortable or hostile but exhausted--the quiet of people who have a great deal to think about but not a hell of a lot to say.
Like a lot of stupid people, it took a great deal to get an idea into the king's head, but once there, there was no shifting it.
Don't forget either, you unhappy man, that voluntary confinement is a great deal harder to bear than compulsory.
It hurt me a great deal. It put a lot of pressure on me because I was at a young age and the writers around here and throughout the league starting comparing me to Cobb. It put a lot of pressure on me.
Men seek a great deal, but fatally close, albeit very different, is one's pride in proving oneself right with one's zeal for finding the truth.
It had taken skill, tact, an ability to choose friends well, and a great deal of luck... Luck was always part of it, one way or another
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.
[T]hey are much to be pitied who have not ... been given a taste for Nature in early life. They lose a great deal.
Some people will tell you there is a great deal of poetry and fine sentiment in a chest of tea.
Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.
It takes a great deal of courage to stand alone even if you believe in something very strongly.
