Great Quotes

Germany is a great nation only because its people have so much Polish blood in their veins.

Sometimes you have to take a risk if you want great things to happen.

Throughout human history, in any great endeavour requiring the common effort of many nations and men and women everywhere, we have learned - it is only through seriousness of purpose and persistence that we ultimately carry the day. We might liken it to riding a bicycle. You stay upright and move forward so long as you keep up the momentum.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Sooner and later you will see great changes made, dreadful horrors and vengeances. For as the Moon is thus led by its angel, the heavens draw near to the Balance.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

I like the Baldwin boys a great deal. Alec is super-smart, super-articulate, almost too smart to be an actor.

If four things are followed - having a great aim, acquiring knowledge, hard work, and perseverance - then anything can be achieved.

God has blessed me many times. I had some great genetics.

All the great works of art, the cathedrals - the Gothic cathedrals and the splendid Baroque churches - are a luminous sign of God, and thus are truly a manifestation, an epiphany of God.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

Love and hate have a magical transforming power. They are the great soul changers. We grow through their exercise into the likeness of what we contemplate.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Beneath the rule of men entirely great, the pen is mightier than the sword.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

A great man is always willing to be little.