Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.
A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.
As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.
The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.
There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.
Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.
Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.
What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.
I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.
Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.
I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.
When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.
When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different.
The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.
How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.
The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.
I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They're incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.
Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.
King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.