Great Quotes

I always entertain great hopes.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

All great characters, great icons, in literature are a bit of a riddle, and that's the reason we go back to them over and over.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

Brazil's always had great players, both at home and abroad, but we need to put all that talent together and mould a team out of it.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

I know that I'm not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear, and I don't know how not to.