Life should be great rather than long.
A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
Great scientific contributions have been techniques.
We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
It's just such a great miracle when things do work, and they work for such a wild variety of crazy reasons.
Order is a great person's need and their true well being.
It's a great day. now, go make it that way.
“Fiction is the great liar that tells the truth about how the world really lives.”
“fiction is the great lie that tells the truth”
Waiting is one of the great arts.
Great necessities call out great virtues.
The great corrupter of public man is the ego. Looking at the mirror distracts one's attention from the problem.
There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.
Great and good are seldom the same man.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.
Produce great men, the rest follows.
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.
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
“Great things are done when men and mountains meet.”
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Great ideas originate in the muscles.
“Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.”
If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does;Russia.
All great change in America begins at the dinner table.
There never was any heart truly great and generous, That was not also tender and compassionate.
The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
A great man is always willing to be little.