A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort. John Ruskin
It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me. Barry Goldwater
Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world. Frank Lloyd Wright
The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things. Condoleezza Rice
Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist. Steven Seagal
We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. John W. Gardner
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. Joseph Addison
Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place. Edmund Spenser
After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true. H. G. Wells
I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside. Francesca Annis
When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results. Calvin Coolidge
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with. Adam Ant
A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind. Daisaku Ikeda
Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike. Margot Fonteyn
Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind? Colin Powell
The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood. Norman Cousins
The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. Willa Cather
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. Samuel Johnson
You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration. James Lane Allen