My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe, I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerI call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.
Ronald ReaganWhat is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men but they do not form a class.
Alexis de TocquevilleThere are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors rickshaw drivers and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.
Hillary ClintonThe heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.
Elbert HubbardWant of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money for that is the miser's passion not the thief s.
William BlakeGood temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features.
William HazlittMy message especially to young people is to have courage to think differently courage to invent to travel the unexplored path courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.
Abdul KalamGreat nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.
R. Buckminster FullerIf calculus or algebra were required to be a great investor I'd have to go back to delivering newspapers.
Warren BuffettTo live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Calvin CoolidgeHistory shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas CarlyleTo this day some of my closest friends say 'Gaga you know everything's great. You're a singer, your dreams have come true.' But still when certain things are said to you over and over again as you're growing up it stays with you and you wonder if they're true.
Lady GagaMusic the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have below.
Joseph AddisonThere is a great discovery still to be made in literature that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas CarlyleHave you learned the lessons only of those who admired you and were tender with you and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you and disputed passage with you?
Walt WhitmanThere is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object.
John KeatsOnly through destroying myself can I discover the greater power of my spirit.
Chuck PalahniukNothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company you please none, If you flatter only one or two you offend the rest.
Jonathan SwiftA lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.
Donald TrumpGreat is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at and humbled for his sins.
Thomas FullerHe pattered with his keys at a great rate / And sweated through his apostolic skin: / Of course his perspiration was but ichor / Or some such other spiritual liquor.
Lord ByronThe greatest beauty aid for women is virtue.
Sai BabaWe begin to see therefore the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted.
Napoleon HillObama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.
Donald TrumpThose that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPeople who know little are usually great talkers while men who know much say little.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTo conquer oneself is a greater victory than to conquer thousands in a battle.
BuddhaSo great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.
Matthew HenryWhen I say that human beings are just gene machines one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
Richard DawkinsI played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.
Henny YoungmanThe greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.
MichelangeloThe greatest wealth is to live content with little.
PlatoTo prefer evil to good is not in human nature, and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
PlatoIf there is not the war you don't get the great general, if there is not a great occasion you don't get a great statesman, if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace no one would have known his name.
Theodore RooseveltNext to enjoying ourselves the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves or more generally in the acquisition of power.
Bertrand RussellA great fortune is a great slavery.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaA great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
F. Scott FitzgeraldI had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom.
Winston ChurchillA great city whose image dwells in the memory of man is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest, Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem, and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world Art.
Benjamin DisraeliI'm a great lover I'll bet.
Emo PhilipsOur knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.
Isaac Bashevis SingerPleasant it is when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation, not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy but because to perceive you are free of them yourself is pleasant.
LucretiusPoets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
PlatoNo crime is so great as daring to excel.
Winston ChurchillWith only half a lip you kiss, And half of that I ne'er' should miss, A greater boon of worth untold, Wilt grant me? That whole half withhold.
Marcus AureliusPleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains with no part of yours in peril.
LucretiusI begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
Soren KierkegaardIn all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
Eleanor RooseveltThis merger is going to create the greatest consumer products company in the world.
Warren BuffettMusic is the fourth great material want first food then clothes then shelter then music.
Christian Nestell BoveeThere be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil busy workshops easy conveyance for men and goods from place to place
Francis BaconThe game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time given me the greatest respect and love for the game.
Michael JordanThere is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.
James DeanI wanted to only create a great perfume not any perfume that would sell but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.
Lady GagaThe great object is that every man be armed.
Patrick HenryRhetoric is a poor substitute for action and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation we must not merely talk, we must act big.
Theodore RooseveltSeven hundred and sixteen billion dollars funneled out of Medicare by President Obama. An obligation we have to our parents and grandparents is being sacrificed all to pay for a new entitlement we didn't even ask for. The greatest threat to Medicare is Obamacare and we're going to stop it.
Paul RyanBattles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general the more he contributes in maneuver the less he demands in slaughter.
Winston ChurchillThe greatest cunning is to have none at all.
Carl SandburgOne of the greatest discoveries a man makes one of his great surprises is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.
Henry FordThe man whose action habitually bears the stamp of his mind is a genius but the greatest genius is not always equal to himself or he would cease to be human.
Honore de BalzacOf all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas CarlyleWe can be thankful to a friend for a few acres or a little money, and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhen we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
George EliotMy great comfort is that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers, I have never concealed a single thought that tempted me.
Lord ByronDon't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities, strong men make them.
Orison Swett MardenHe that has a great nose thinks everybody is speaking of it.
Thomas FullerAs great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words so lesser minds have a talent of talking much and saying nothing.
Francois de La RochefoucauldYou wish to appear Cotta a pretty man and a great man at one and the same time: but he who is a pretty man Cotta is a very small man
Marcus AureliusIt is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds though he risk everything.
PlutarchGreat acts are made up of small deeds.
Lao TzuIt's cool to be a part of history having two great coaches go head-to-head.
Kobe BryantWisdom 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.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIf you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.
Brian TracyLittle progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
Calvin CoolidgeNo enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need it performs some great service not for itself but for others, or failing therein it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.
Calvin CoolidgeThe greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.
Denis WaitleyGreat thoughts and a pure heart that is what we should ask from God.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhat's so great about the kid is that he absolutely doesn't know the word quit. He gave us a real lift today and you had to be impressed with how our team set him up at the end.
Lance ArmstrongThe marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
MichelangeloLike anything else that happens on its own the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have but when it comes to the act of creation the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
Stephen KingGreat thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
William HazlittAll rising to a great place is by a winding stair
Francis BaconI think Lamar is a great facilitator in orchestrating the offense a little bit which frees me up a lot more to attack and do some of the things I've been doing.
Kobe BryantThe world is a bundle of hay / Mankind are the asses who pull, / Each tugs it a different way / And the greatest of all is John Bull.
Lord ByronThe greater the obstacle the more glory in overcoming it.
MoliereAfter climbing a great hill one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
Nelson MandelaWithout question the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
Dave BarryBeing brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheMy mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be and much less about what we would do.
Mitt RomneyMy greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
T. S. EliotGod our Creator has stored within our minds and personalities great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.
Abdul KalamGood men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong, he has a thousand who has overcome it.
Christian Nestell BoveeThought is subversive and revolutionary destructive and terrible Thought is merciless to privilege established institutions and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.
Bertrand RussellHe had a great game. He actually taught me to play defense. I wasn't surprised by his play at all.
Kobe BryantTwo great European narcotics alcohol and Christianity.
Friedrich NietzscheGreat grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIt is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaRice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.
Mitch HedbergJust do what must be done. This may not be happiness but it is greatness.
George Bernard ShawYou need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
Henry RollinsThere is none made so great but he may both need the help and service and stand in fear of the power and unkindness even of the meanest of mortals.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.
Lord ByronThe flaw which is hidden is deemed greater than it is
Marcus AureliusThe final proof of greatness lies in being able to endure criticism without resentment.
Elbert HubbardThe greater the difficulty the more the glory in surmounting it.
EpicurusThe momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable - and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come we can know that His purposes are just and true.
George W. BushTo have great poets there must be great audiences.
Walt WhitmanGreatly his foes he dreads but more his friends, he hurts me most who lavishly commends.
Winston ChurchillThere is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.
Benjamin DisraeliPoverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation.
Kahlil GibranSpeaking purely from a musical standpoint I think I am a great performer.
Lady GagaThe difference between a bad artist and a good one is: The bad artist seems to copy a great deal, the good one really does.
William BlakeThe difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.
Charles R. SwindollAs usual there is a great woman behind every idiot.
John LennonA just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
Joseph AddisonThe higher the sun ariseth the less shadow doth he cast, even so the greater is the goodness the less doth it covet praise, yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.
Lao TzuService is greater than meditation.
Sai BabaFrom a worldly point of view there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
Samuel ButlerOnce I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long, and the age of the great epics is past.
Gilbert K. ChestertonGreat people talk about ideas average people talk about things and small people talk about wine.
Fran LebowitzWe only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Francois de La RochefoucauldTo gain a crown by fighting is great to reject it divine.
Friedrich SchillerI think this was our best game this season. We played very well at both ends of the court consistently. We did a great job containing our energy and when we went to our bench they came in and maintained our energy. We had guys step up consistently and make big plays. That is what we have to do. If we can keep this rolling we will make a lot of noise.
Kobe BryantWho in the world am I? Ah that's the great puzzle.
Lewis CarrollMeetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a right to be persuaded. However they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
John Kenneth GalbraithLenience will operate with greater force in some instances than rigor. It is therefore my first wish to have all of my conduct distinguished by it.
George WashingtonGreat achievement is usually born of great sacrifice and is never the result of selfishness.
Napoleon HillThe greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
Charles LambPut the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
Orison Swett MardenWhat greater gain can there be for man than becoming aware of his Self himself knowing himself.
Sai BabaIt is criminal to steal a purse daring to steal a fortune a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.
Friedrich SchillerThe greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts.
Ronald ReaganIt was a great read by them. They sent out all small so they were able to switch everything. They took the play away from us.
Kobe BryantOur greatest pretenses are built up not to hide the evil and the ugly in us but our emptiness. The hardest thing to hide is something that is not there.
Eric HofferThere is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn as in doing it.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaTo have a great idea have a lot of them.
Thomas A. EdisonWhat is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
E. M. ForsterThe secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
George Bernard ShawBehind every great fortune lies a great crime.
Honore de BalzacIs there not some chosen curse some hidden thunder in the stores of heaven red with uncommon wrath to blast the man who owes his greatness to his country's ruin!
Joseph AddisonIt is the privilege of posterity to set matters right between those antagonists who by their rivalry for greatness divided a whole age.
Joseph AddisonThe Black skin is not a badge of shame but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.
Marcus GarveyThe greatest Electrical Pioneer of them all was Thomas Edison... Edison's first major invention in 1877 was the phonograph which could soon be found in thousands of American homes where it basically sat until 1923 when the record was invented.
Dave BarryWhen a great many people are unable to find work unemployment results.
Calvin CoolidgeI think that it's a great step for us being that we didn't make the playoffs last year. We were able to bounce back. It's a step in the right direction. But it's not something that we're going to celebrate over.
Kobe BryantGreat authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
Andre GideSee everything overlook a great deal correct a little.
Pope John XXIIIOur nation was created in ways that allow human potential to prosper and it created the greatest nation for people in the history of humanity. Now Obama is dismantling it because he has no appreciation for our greatness. In fact he resents it. He blames this country for whatever evils he sees around the world.
Rush LimbaughIt is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching childlike and of the race of giants.
Honore de BalzacInterest is the spur of the people but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth and judgment of age.
Jonathan SwiftThere is no greater evil than anarchy.
SophoclesThe great artist is a slave to his ideals.
Christian Nestell Bovee