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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy
Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious,
and they must be brought into connection with action.
They must be woven together.
- Anais Nin
Trust men and they will be true to you;
treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Men have a respect for scholarship and learning
greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
- Henry David Thoreau
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Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed,
for if you merely offend them, they take vengeance,
but if you injure them greatly, they are unable to retaliate,
so that the injury done to a man
ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
- Niccolo Machiavelli
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
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein
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
Hey, Marge. Isn't it great being married
to someone who's recklessly impulsive?
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
We have a great life here in Alaska,
and we're never going back to America again!
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
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
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
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
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
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
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
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
- John Lennon
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
- Lewis Carroll
New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
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
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
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
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
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
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
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
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
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
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.
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
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
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish -
too much handling will spoil it.
- Lao Tzu
Know that you cannot create great new beginnings
until you sincerely celebrate the endings that precede them.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
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
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative,
to which all beings owe their beginning
and which permeates all heaven.
- Lao Tzu
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The finest kind of friendship is between people
who expect a great deal of each other but never ask it.
- Anonymous
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Most people say that is it is the intellect
which makes a great scientist.
They are wrong: it is character.
- Albert Einstein
From small beginnings come great things.
- Anonymous
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
Know that the essence of life is not
in the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgiving is not a gift to someone else.
Forgiving is your gift to yourself -
a great gift - the gift of happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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