Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Armstrong

What makes Seattle unusual is that it's one of three great theater towns in the United States.

There is a great need for small business.

There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

There is a greater tendency toward lower rates.

Randy Jackson

There is a great disparity in the way stats are kept. There's no way that many kids are hitting.400 and above. I look at the stats very closely, and it's ridiculous.

Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

Dante Alighieri

There is no greater sorrow than to be mindful of the happy time in misery.

There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.

Rodman Philbrick

There is no greater compliment for a writer than to have pleased a troubled child.

There is hardly any supervisor in the Wal-Mart store after 7 p.m.. What a great spot for a perverted man.

We've been together since August. It's a long road together. That's one of the greatest things about team sports is that you go through things together and you become close. There is a bonding.

We just have to be smart and play our game. And look at it as a great way to get ready for the Big Ten.

Matt Brown

We're proud that we were able to get a tournament win. There have been a lot of great players come through here from Ryan Pore to Brandon Gilmore. A school like ours, with so many quality athletes, should never go that long between tournament wins.

We're proud of those guys, they did a great job of representing Stockton.

We think he'll do a great job here.

Joe Gibbs

We think he has great flexibility for us.

Jeff Chandler

We think Fishers is great for the Ram.

Jarret Stoll

We're only halfway done. We've had a great first (half), but those don't mean anything if you miss the playoffs.

Mehmet Okur

We're playing well as a team. It was a great road trip.

Blaise Pascal

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

Blaise Pascal

It is of dangerous consequence to represent to man how near he is to the level of beasts, without showing him at the same time his greatness. It is likewise dangerous to let him see his greatness without his meanness. It is more dangerous yet to leave him ignorant of either; but very beneficial that he should be made sensible of both.

Blaise Pascal

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Blaise Pascal

A man does not show his greatness by being at one extremity, but rather by touching both at once.

Blaise Pascal

The origins of disputes between philosophers is, that one class of them have undertaken to raise man by displaying his greatness, and the other to debase him by showing his miseries.

Blaise Pascal

Those who profess contempt for men, and put them on a level with beasts, yet wish to be admired and believed by men, and contradict themselves by their own feelings--their nature, which is stronger than all, convincing them of the greatness of man more forcibly than reason convinces them of his baseness.

Blaise Pascal

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. The greatness of the human soul is shown by knowing how to keep within proper bounds. There are two equally dangerous extremes- to shut reason out, and not to let nothing in.

Blaise Pascal

That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.

Blaise Pascal

One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.

Blaise Pascal

Man is so great that his greatness appears even in the consciousness of his misery. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is true that it is misery indeed to know one's self to be miserable; but then it is greatness also. In this way, all man's miseries go to prove his greatness. They are the miseries of a mighty potentate, of a dethroned monarch.

Blaise Pascal

Great and small suffer the same mishaps.

I feel like, when you turn on the radio and you hear a great song, you know it's a great song, and you sing along. We all know what a great song sounds like, so we all have that instinct, it's just being able to accept your own instincts when you write that song.

Kevin Love

For me, it's always easy and great to be connected to St. Jude.

Kathleen Blanco

The first light of day today revealed what we had feared. The devastation is greater than our worst fears. It's just totally overwhelming.