A man who pays respect to the great paves the way for his own greatness
Great souls have wills; feeble ones have only wishes.
The friendship of a great man is like the shadow of a bush -- soon gone.
How great man would be were he not so arrogant.
He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.
We learn little from victory, but a great deal from defeat.
He who knows a great deal has a hundred eyes.
It is the fate of the great ones of this earth, to be appreciated only after they are gone.
The warlike days are over. Blood is too precious a thing in these days of dishonorable peace; and the glories of the great races are as a tale that is told.
One would expect boredom to be a great yawning emotion, but it isn't, of course. It's a small niggling thing.
You don't have to be a hero to accomplish great things---to compete. You can just be an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated to reach challenging goals.
A blanket is great for covering things, like the dead guy, I just killed with this brick.
[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.
The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.
At a young age I thought, 'Wow, that fiddle thing, that's pretty cool. That mandolin is great. These drums, I like these drums... ' They were Indian drums. And I was saying, 'But that guitar. That guitar. Girls are going to like that guitar.'
There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.
Most things in my life I had before leaving home. Values, support, great family. I was shaped at an early age. A musician playing guitar, I wanted to be a folk singer.
The guys from Atari that are making the next Alone in the Dark game came and we had a great meeting. I'd love to do that. I'm a fan of videogames. I like them. And to get to be part of one of them would be a fun and exciting thing.
India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.
Birds themselves are so interesting and intelligent, and they give so many cues without being verbal, so they say such great things. Feathers are superior to fur, even. They're so beautiful, and nature uses such amazing colors.
'The Three Stooges' is great. And I was worried, just because there's so many things that have to go right. All three of those guys have to be amazing - everything has to be amazing. And everything went right.
