Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.

Charles Caleb Colton

Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.

Charles Caleb Colton

In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.

Charles Caleb Colton

Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.

Charles Simmons

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

Chris Colfer

You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough

Chinua Achebe

You cannot plant greatness as you plant yams or maize. Who ever planted an iroko tree — the greatest tree in the forest? You may collect all the iroko seeds in the world, open the soil and put them there. It will be in vain. The great tree chooses where to grow and we find it there, so it is with the greatness in men.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Greatness depends on where you are coming from.

Dave Chappelle

The mark of greatness is when everything before you is obsolete, and everything after you bears your mark.

Carolina Herrera

Luxury will be always around, no matter what happens in the world.

Ai Weiwei

Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

Ai Weiwei

All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

Audre Lorde

For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.

Audre Lorde

Poetry is not a luxury.

Audre Lorde

For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence.

Mike Maddux

We accomplished a lot. That's the luxury of throwing on the side. You can get things done.

Diego Della Valle

The boom for luxury goods is unending. There are people who never have to worry about whether they can afford something they like. In one part of the world or another there will always be someone with money to spend on luxury.

Dennis Lehane

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

Alan Moore

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath away.

Byron Katie

The whole world is simply my story, projected back to me on the screen of my own perception. All of it.

Caspar David Friedrich

The painter should paint not only what he has in front of him, but also what he sees inside himself. If he sees nothing within, then he should stop painting what is in front of him.

Peter Andersen

The perception is that they take too long and are too expensive.

Bob Hall

The perception is that politics is for sale and politicians are for sale.

Michael Boyd

The perception is it's environmentalist versus environmentalist, ... But it's environmentalists versus the power cartel.

Richard Fleming

The perception in the marketplace has a tremendous impact.

Louis C. K.

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

David Icke

The only revolution that will change anything is a revolution of perception.