3 December 2020 James Madison In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.
3 December 2020 Robert H. Schuller If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
3 December 2020 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.
3 December 2020 Chuck Palahniuk Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
3 December 2020 E. O. Wilson Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
3 December 2020 William James The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
3 December 2020 Andrew Jackson The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer… form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.
3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.
3 December 2020 Lord Byron I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
3 December 2020 Thomas Carlyle No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
3 December 2020 Jacques Yves Cousteau The sea, the great unifier, is man’s only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.
3 December 2020 Emily Dickinson After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.
3 December 2020 Francesca Annis I’m one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I’m waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.
3 December 2020 Robert Frost There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
3 December 2020 Cher Until you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Hill Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.
3 December 2020 Horace Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.
3 December 2020 Bill Gates I’m sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn’t on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
3 December 2020 Thomas Fuller Great is the difference betwixt a man’s being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.
3 December 2020 Pindar Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
3 December 2020 George Eliot Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
3 December 2020 Ray Bradbury The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw He’s a man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
3 December 2020 Boy George She’s probably in denial that she’s a great big ball of insecurity and I’m quite well aware that I am one.
