Quotes of: Greatness Keyword

Religion is not a popular error; it is a great instinctive truth, sensed by the people, expressed by the people.

Ernest Renan

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

Edith Sitwell

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

Edmund Spenser

It doesn't make me happy to go back and talk about how great high school was.

Elizabeth Warren

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

E. O. Wilson

There is a great advantage in training under unfavorable conditions. It is better to train under bad conditions, for the difference is then a tremendous relief in a race.

Emil Zatopek

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

Francis Bacon

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

Francis Bacon

I've got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They're there for me every time.

Frank Black

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Frederic Bastiat

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Frederick Douglass

Don't forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings.

Frederick the Great

I do not hesitate to say that the limitation on naval craft between the great naval powers was too high.

Frank B. Kellogg

I'd never buy something, even if it's a great brand, that is a competitor to something I already own; that's insane.

Francois-Henri Pinault

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The early seasons of 'The Simpsons' had a great deal of heart. That's what I'm trying to pull from, the kind of stuff that goes straight to kids' hearts. When they're watching, they don't necessarily know why they love something.

Fred Seibert

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Although elephants are far more distantly related to us than the great apes, they seem to have evolved similar social and cognitive capacities.

Frans de Waal

Sometimes I read about someone saying with great authority that animals have no intentions and no feelings, and I wonder, 'Doesn't this guy have a dog?'

Frans de Waal

Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.

Fred Wilson

One of the great dilemmas for America will be that American companies will do very well while American workers might not.

Fareed Zakaria