3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
3 December 2020 Dean Koontz Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.
3 December 2020 Albert Schweitzer A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
3 December 2020 Gabriel Garcia Marquez She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
3 December 2020 Richard Dawkins Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
3 December 2020 Arthur Schopenhauer In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
3 December 2020 William James A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley One of the great attractions of patriotism – it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what’s more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
3 December 2020 Rita Rudner I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don’t know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I’ll break up with someone on purpose.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
3 December 2020 Washington Irving Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.
3 December 2020 Joel Osteen People in tough times – it doesn’t mean they don’t have a great attitude.
3 December 2020 Dave Chappelle You know, be able to do something great in your life, you’re gonna have to realize your failures. You’re gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson When I am grown to man’s estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
3 December 2020 Peace Pilgrim Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.
3 December 2020 Peter Hook The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!
3 December 2020 Moliere All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.
3 December 2020 E. M. Forster What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
3 December 2020 Kate Clinton I try something new every night. It’s an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It’s a great workshop for me.
