3 December 2020 Gunter Grass As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.
3 December 2020 John Keats You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat – in other words, turn you into an adult.
3 December 2020 Dag Hammarskjold Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves… self-discipline with all of them came first.
3 December 2020 George Eliot There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
3 December 2020 William Butler Yeats Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother’s womb a fanatic heart.
3 December 2020 Matthew Henry So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.
3 December 2020 Sam Snead The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.
3 December 2020 Martin Luther The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
3 December 2020 Frederick Douglass A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.
3 December 2020 Victor Hugo Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
3 December 2020 Louis Kronenberger 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.
3 December 2020 Anne Morrow Lindbergh By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
3 December 2020 Phillips Brooks Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
3 December 2020 Cate Blanchett If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life – that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment – that would be the perfect state.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one’s designs to one’s means.
3 December 2020 Orison Swett Marden Put the uncommon effort into the common task… make it large by doing it in a great way.
3 December 2020 Julia Roberts I don’t get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there’s always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.
3 December 2020 Al Pacino I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.
3 December 2020 Aristotle Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
3 December 2020 James Freeman Clarke All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.
3 December 2020 Plato I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
3 December 2020 Bryant H. McGill A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.
3 December 2020 George Bernard Shaw A man of great common sense and good taste – meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
3 December 2020 Simone Weil Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
3 December 2020 Bono Rock ‘n’ roll is ridiculous. It’s absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we’re wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.
