Famous Quotes & Sayings

Great Britain, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Italy are being considered.

Marsha Blackburn

Great Britain has long been one of our strongest friends in the free world.

Benjamin Franklin

Great Beauty, great strength, & great Riches, are really & truly of no great Use; a right Heart exceeds all.

Bryn Terfel

For the last ten years my only teacher has been Rudolf Pierne. He is a superb pianist, conductor, linguist and a great singing teacher. He knows my voice and has looked after its development.

For the most part, verifying eligibility has greatly improved.

For the most part, I had a great experience.

For the great, great percentage of the American people who gamble, it's a recreation. And it's a recreation that they have under control.

For the first time that we did this, I think it was a great success.

For the players and their confidence, it was great just to see them happy and to smile. They can see light now at the end of the tunnel.

For them to go out with such a great performance over the weekend, that really makes me feel good.

For the first time ever, we sold all the T-shirts at the time of the walk. Which must mean we've had a great turnout.

For our teams that do great work, we have a tradition of giving Rolex watches. If you see all the key guys with their Rolexes, that's sort of our Medal of Honor if you do something big.

Shannon Miller

For ourselves, we need to play great hockey and sweep this weekend.

For our particular purposes, one of the things they get to do is study great literature in depth.

Igor Stravinsky

Nothing is likely about masterpieces, least of all whether there will be any.

Giorgio Morandi

You cannot demonstrate your own greatness by remaining at one extreme, but by reaching out to both extremes at the same time, and filling the intermediate space.

Giordano Bruno

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

Giordano Bruno

God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

For I think it is the case with genius that it is not when quiescent so very much above mediocrity as the difference between the two might lead us to think, but that it has the power and privilege of rising from that level to a height utterly far from mediocrity: in other words that its greatness is that it can be so great.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed.

Harry S Truman

There isn't any question about Washington's greatness. If his administration had been a failure, there would have been no United States. A lesser man couldn't have done it.... Washington was both a great administrator and a great leader, a truly great man in every way.

Harry S Truman

Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

J. K. Rowling

You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that.

Ivan Misner

You can make a good living while serving a greater good.

Greg Louganis

I am a firm believer that you don't achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand

Georg Brandes

Greatness has nothing to do with results or with success.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There are people who are so presumptuous that they know no other way to praise a greatness that they publicly admire than by representing it as a preliminary stage and bridge leading to themselves.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?

Friedrich Nietzsche

The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts.

Friedrich Nietzsche

There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

To be a great man it is necessary to know how to profit by the whole of our good fortune.