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.
Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Every day I wake up and I lay in bed counting my blessings and saying my prayers for how fortunate I am to have great fans and health and family.
The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail – I shall succeed.
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.
Small aim is a crime; have great aim.
Great tranquility of heart is his who cares for neither praise nor blame.
An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations… eating with friends, the service, the ambience.
We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
It’s a great day for a ball game; let’s play two!
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.
The great and abiding lesson of American history, particularly the cold war, is that the engine of capitalism, the individual, is mightier than any collective.
Music is a really great creative tool for me, for different roles.
What is man without the beasts? For if all the beast were gone, man would die of a great loneliness of the spirit.
True greatness consists in being great in little things.
You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
It’s very corny, ‘never give up’ – but it’s just a great quote that I always follow.
You need great passion, because everything you do with great pleasure, you do well.
Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It’s the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.
When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.
If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.
You’re never too old to start learning, and you’re never too young to aim high and achieve great things.
With the right people, culture, and values, you can accomplish great things.
To do a great right do a little wrong.
Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.
I have a great family, I live an amazing life.
If someone is being bullied or feels like an outsider, and they relate to something that I’ve done, even if it’s just igniting a spark, that’s great. I had that feeling as a kid. I was messed with no end.
If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.
Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is ‘What does a woman want?’
To have great poets, there must be great audiences.
Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
For everything bad, there’s a million really exciting things, whether it’s someone puts out a really great book, there’s a new movie, there’s a new detective, the sky is unbelievably golden, or you have the best cup of coffee you ever had in your life.
Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.
The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
There is no personal charm so great as the charm of a cheerful temperament.
I get up every morning and it’s going to be a great day. You never know when it’s going to be over so I refuse to have a bad day.
I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.
We want to do a lot of stuff; we’re not in great shape. We didn’t get a good night’s sleep. We’re a little depressed. Coffee solves all these problems in one delightful little cup.
I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.
The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.
There is a dark side in all of us. And for us ‘bad’ people, the bad side dominates. I think there is a great sadness in villains, and I have tried to put that across. We cannot stop ourselves doing what we are doing.
I have a great affection for Indian culture and music.
A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.
Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.
And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.
The great thing about getting older is that you don’t lose all the other ages you’ve been.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you can know that the President drinks Coke. Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too.
