Great Quotes - page 4

Although I was not aware of it at the time, the experience of growing up during the Great Depression was to have a profound impact on my intellectual and professional career. (Lawrence Klein)
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love. View quote
Mother Teresa
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. View quote
Leon Trotsky
Music has a great advantage: without mentioning anything, it can say everything. View quote
Ilya Ehrenburg
The direct use of physical force is so poor a solution to the problem of limited resources that it is commonly employed only by small children and great nations. View quote
David Friedman
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do. View quote
Stephen Spender
I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction. View quote
Clarence Darrow
To be great is to be misunderstood. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Progress, that great heresy of degenerates. View quote
Charles Baudelaire
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. (Robertson Davies)
The great inconvenience of new books is that they prevent us from reading the old ones. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them. View quote
Joseph Joubert
Great men hallow a whole people, and lift up all who live in their time. View quote
Sydney Smith
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. View quote
William Shakespeare
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. View quote
Mark Twain
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. View quote
Elias Canetti
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
California is a great place to live - if you happen to be an orange. View quote
Fred Allen
For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Great ideas are not charitable. (Henry de Montherlant)
Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater. Possession pampers the mind; privation trains and strengthens it. View quote
William Hazlitt
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts. View quote
William Hazlitt
A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections. View quote
George Eliot
There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms. View quote
George Eliot
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