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The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
- Walter Bagehot
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner 
Hey, Marge. Isn't it great being married
to someone who's recklessly impulsive?
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
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You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein
We have a great life here in Alaska,
and we're never going back to America again!
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
- John Lennon
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality
by contact with this great novel land of yours
which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
- Winston Churchill
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
Confused Memories of Childhood:
Hate to my father, cruel hate,
confused with love - a mix not great.
The man I love - the man I hate;
the man I want to emulate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
No one can have a higher opinion of you than I have,
and I think you're a slimy, contemptible sewer rat!
- the movie The Great Mouse Detective
I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
- Lewis Carroll
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
Thinking is necessary, but not sufficient, for living a great life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We come nearest to the great
when we are great in humility.
- Rabindranath Tagore
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those
who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
Living in fear of anything is a terrible waste
of what could be a great life.
If you live in fear of losing your job,
either you fear the embarrassment of being jobless,
or you fear the loss of material goods -
house, car, and such.
If you live in fear of losing your stuff and money,
it is clear that they own you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
- William Arthur Ward
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Great oaks from little acorns grow.
- Proverb
Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory.
It can no longer serve to settle disputes...
can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.
- John F. Kennedy
I am a firm believer in the people.
If given the truth, they can be depended upon
to meet any national crisis.
The great point is to bring them the real facts.
- Abraham Lincoln
We are all connected in the great Circle of Life.
- the movie The Lion King
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news.
The good news is that you don't know how great you can be!
How much you can love!
What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
- Anne Frank
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
It is only the great-hearted who can be true friends.
The mean and cowardly can never know what true friendship means.
- Charles Kingsley
A great man is always willing to be little.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie,
deliberate, contrived and dishonest,
but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
In times of great stress or adversity,
it's always best to keep busy,
to plow your anger and your energy
into something positive.
- Lee Iacocca
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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