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There is something great and terrible about suicide.
Honore de Balzac on great

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
Emma Goldman on great

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.
Zachary Quinto on great

You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
John Keats on great

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!
Woody Allen on great

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.
Jean Claude Van Damme on great

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
E. O. Wilson on great

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.
Edmund Burke on great

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke on great

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke on great

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.
Earl Nightingale on great

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Walt Whitman on great

My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
Danica Patrick on great

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman on great

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez on great

Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman on great

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.
Martha Gellhorn on great

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.
Charles de Montesquieu on great

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
Pablo Casals on great

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Arthur Schopenhauer on great