High aims form high characters, and great objects bring out great minds.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it's a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.
No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
It is not the strength, but the duration, of great sentiments that makes great men.
Great companies are formed by great people. It’s not about attracting great people; it’s about retaining them.
...what distinguishes pulp fiction from great literature is how emphatically the work challenges us to interpret it.
The real distinction between being great and being less great seems to be the extent to which we are willing to be pushed along by our own desires.
The adult were once young. The young have not yet attained adulthood.The young must learn to appreciate the wisdom of elderly people and learn from their life experiences.
Every child born into the world has a divine mission to fulfill. As the child grows into adulthood, he or she must act to fulfill the divine mission.
You can actually overcome all the limitations of life and achieve your dreams, if you don't give up too early.
You have to first dream and take the first action towards realising the dream, then all other resources will be attracted to you for the achievement of the dream.
Why do men create suffering for others and fight over material wealth? Naked we come into the world, naked will go out of the world.
I think my best work has been in France with great men. It's been my great fortune to work with really great men - with Olivier Assayas, Raoul Ruiz, Jacques Rivette. I am tutored by them.
Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private ranks of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philade...
Greatness consists not in the holding of some future office, but really consists in doing great deeds with little means and the accomplishment of vast purposes from the private rants of life. To be great at all one must be great here, now, in Philade...
... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.
They were all fitting into place, the jig-saw pieces. The odd strained shapes that I had tried to piece together with my fumbling fingers and they had never fitted. Frank's odd manner when I spoke about Rebecca. Beatrice and her rather diffident nega...
God is the comic shepherd who gets more of a kick out of that one lost sheep once he finds it again than out of the ninety and nine who had the good sense not to get lost in the first place. God is the eccentric host who, when the country-club crowd ...
I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
