998 Quotes Regarding Great


I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.
Henny Youngman

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.
Friedrich Schiller

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
Alice Cooper

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
Matthew Henry

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.
James Russell Lowell

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
Thomas Fuller

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
Wentworth Miller

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.
Jean Genet

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
James Freeman Clarke

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.
Matthew Modine

He was as great as a man can be without morality.
Alexis de Tocqueville

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
Jeff Bridges

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.
Cher

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.
Shaun White

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.
Adam Smith

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.
Horace

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Joseph Addison