The demon that you can swallow gives you it Joseph Campbell
I know that two and two make four -- and should be glad to prove it too if I could -- though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.
Lord ByronThe system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.
Steve JobsA little group of willful men representing no opinion but their own have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
Woodrow WilsonHe was as great as a man can be without morality.
Alexis de TocquevilleContentment with little or nothing to eat although one may have a great appetite, to awaken instantly although one may be in a deep slumber, unflinching devotion to the master, and bravery, these six qualities should be learned from the dog.
ChanakyaI have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
Lord ByronLike the strawberry wives that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot and all the rest were little ones.
Francis BaconOnly by taking responsibility for oneself to the greatest extent possible can one ever be free and only a free person can make responsible choices - between right and wrong saving and spending giving or taking.
Paul RyanWithout 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.
E. O. WilsonNo 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.
H. L. MenckenNo great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed seeming to be dragged rather than to march to the intended goal. Something of this sort must I think always happen in public democratic assemblies.
Alexis de TocquevilleIn other words don't expect to always be great. Disappointments failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem let's go and get it'.
Colin PowellWe must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
Edmund BurkeI am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope Self.
Martin LutherEvery day the people I meet inspire me... every day they make me proud... every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth.
Michelle ObamaGreat investment opportunities come around when excellent companies are surrounded by unusual circumstances that cause the stock to be misappraised.
Warren BuffettAn index is a great leveller.
George Bernard ShawThe greatest evil is physical pain.
Saint AugustineThe price of greatness is responsibility.
Winston ChurchillIt is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
LucretiusYour greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.
Brian TracyGreat minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
Arthur SchopenhauerOur frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.
Eric HofferIt is not one man nor a million but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are one by one broken but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada it wears out the rock. In like manner whatever the struggle of individuals the great cause will gather strength.
Lord ByronLife starts with Love. The sweetness of love coming out of life is the great and unique principle that is at the source of everything. You can put this love in any field of work.
Sai BabaIt's a joke to think that anyone is one thing. We're all such complex creatures. But if I'm going to be a poster child for anything anger's a gorgeous emotion. It gets a bad rap but it can make great changes happen.
Alanis MorissetteSmall minds are concerned with the extraordinary great minds with the ordinary.
Blaise PascalThere is no greatness where there is no simplicity goodness and truth.
Leo TolstoyThe 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.
Martin LutherThe world's great men have not commonly been great scholars nor its great scholars great men.
Oliver Wendell HolmesAll great peoples are conservative.
Thomas CarlyleGreat souls by instinct to each other turn demand alliance and in friendship burn.
Joseph AddisonIt is not by muscle speed or physical dexterity that great things are achieved but by reflection force of character and judgment.
Marcus Tullius CiceroAn invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.
Thomas FullerOur greatest evils flow from ourselves.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWOMEN preserve the culture of this country with greater tenacity and faith. They keep men on the moral path and inspire them to follow spiritual discipline. Their hearts are tender and full of compassion for the hungry and the distressed. That is why in this land women are adored and revered.
Sai BabaA really great talent finds its happiness in execution.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThere can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter control or singly cope with.
Woodrow WilsonWe have not given science too big a place in our education, but we have made a perilous mistake in giving it too great a preponderance in method in every other branch of study.
Woodrow WilsonReligion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
Anatole FranceI argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic against any opponent. People know this and steer clear of me at parties. Often as a sign of their great respect they don't even invite me.
Dave BarryIt is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.
Henry David ThoreauGood artists copy great artists steal.
Pablo PicassoThese are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.
Winston ChurchillProsperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity of the New which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God Francis Bacon
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
Francis BaconResolve not to be poor: whatever you have spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness, it certainly destroys liberty and it makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.
Samuel JohnsonTo be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
Benjamin DisraeliI do have my ducks in line if I want to do it but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly to use the expression 'Make America great again.'
Donald TrumpWe know but a few men a great many coats and breeches.
Henry David ThoreauAnyone who stops learning is old whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.
Henry FordThe smallest flower is a thought a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole of whom they have a persistent intuition.
Honore de BalzacI am going to be a great actress.
Vivien LeighI knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerIt is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe truest greatness lies in being kind the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxThere are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIn economics hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.
John Kenneth GalbraithAll great empires of the future will be empires of the mind.
Winston ChurchillI didn't even know the record existed until a couple of days ago. I never in my wildest dreams dreamed of being in such great company like Elgin. There have been a lot of great players in this franchise and I have learned a lot from some of them.
Kobe BryantA great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William JamesThe greatest homage we can pay to truth is to use it.
James Russell LowellThe greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTHOSE who deny God the Supreme Will or the First Cause can give no real satisfactory justification for their stand, nor can those who assert that there is God. Both have to rely on their own experience. After all how can sweetness be denied by one who refuses to taste sugar? How can one be convinced that sugar is sweet until one tastes it? We have to feel the great marvel of energy manipulating both the minutest atom and cell and the vastest most distant star. How else can we understand the Omnipresence and Omnipotence except by accepting God as the Architect of the Cosmos?
Sai BabaIt is here my daughters that love is to be found / not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me although we may more often fail and commit small lapses our gain will be incomparably the greater.
Saint Teresa of AvilaWhatever I have tried to do in life I have tried with all my heart to do it well, whatever I have devoted myself to I have devoted myself completely, in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.
Charles DickensThere is something great and terrible about suicide.
Honore de BalzacWe are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.
George WashingtonWe became pretty sensitive about it. We visited Great Ormond Street Hospital when we were in England to do research and we saw the tremendous need for funds.
Dave BarryI try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.
Hillary ClintonOne of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.
Mother TeresaThose who occupy their minds with small matters generally become incapable of greatness.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhen my mom ran for the Senate my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice 'Why should women have any less say than men about the great decisions facing our nation?'
Mitt RomneyGermany has reduced savagery to a science and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.
Theodore RooseveltHowever glorious an action in itself it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMankind is made great or little by its own will.
Friedrich SchillerIf I don't write to empty my mind I go mad. As to that regular uninterrupted love of writing. I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture which I must get rid of but never as a pleasure. On the contrary I think composition a great pain.
Lord ByronIf you cannot do great things do small things in a great way.
Napoleon HillTHE greatest formula that can liberate cleanse and elevate the mind is Rama-Name the Name of Rama.
Sai BabaOne of the most blissful joys of the English language is the fact that one of its greatest practitioners ever one of the guys on the very top table of all was a jokesmith. Though maybe it shouldn't be that big a surprise. Who else would be up there? Austen of course Dickens and Chaucer. The only one who couldn't make a joke to save his life would be Shakespeare.
Douglas AdamsThe willow which bends to the tempest often escapes better than the oak which resists it, and so in great calamities it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
Albert SchweitzerTo write what is worth publishing to find honest people to publish it and get sensible people to read it are the three great difficulties in being an author.
Charles Caleb ColtonI have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb I remember being inside. Coming out was great.
Ray BradburyLondon that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained.
Arthur Conan DoyleThey [Young People] have exalted notions because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations, moreover their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things / and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning / all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything / they love too much hate too much and the same with everything else.
AristotleSo Bush certainly wasn't the greatest and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.
Donald TrumpIt is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows the greater the harvest.
Orison Swett MardenI don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.
John WaynePyrrhus when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius but with great slaughter of his own side said to them "Yes, but if we have such another victory we are undone
Francis BaconDoing is the great thing for if people resolutely do what is right they come in time to like doing it.
John RuskinOur sight is the most perfect and most delightful of all our senses. It fills the mind with the largest variety of ideas converses with its objects at the greatest distance and continues the longest in action without being tired or satiated . . .
Joseph AddisonAmbition never is in a greater hurry that I, it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Napoleon BonaparteThe roaring of lions the howling of wolves the raging of the stormy sea and the destructive sword are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man.
William BlakeAbuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery of party faction and division of society.
John AdamsGreat emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
William JamesThe capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H. L. MenckenBeing is the great explainer.
Henry David ThoreauThe world itself is a great teacher a constant guide and inspiration. That is the reason why man is surrounded and sustained by the world.
Sai BabaThe greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.
Blaise PascalThe limit of every pain is an even greater pain.
Emile M. CioranYouth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.
Gilbert K. ChestertonThe greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool, the truest heroism is to resist the doubt, and the profoundest wisdom to know when it ought to be resisted and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel HawthorneThe greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
SocratesI have known Arnold for years and know he'll be a great governor. It is critical to the rest of the nation that California's economic crisis be solved and I think Arnold will get that job done.
Warren BuffettGreat Men & Fools do often me Inspire But the Greater Fool the Greater Liar.
William BlakeThe greatest part of intimate confidences proceed from a desire either to be pitied or admired.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIrregularity and want of method are only supportable in men of great learning or genius who are often too full to be exact and therefore they choose to throw down their pearls in heaps before the reader rather than be at the pains of stringing the
Joseph AddisonThere is no greater evidence of superior intelligence than to be surprised at nothing.
Josh BillingsSo great is the modesty of your mind and face Sophronius that I wonder you should ever have become a father
Marcus AureliusAll things are admired either because they are new or because they are great
Francis BaconWhen 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.
Robert Louis StevensonMusic is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoleon BonaparteRonald Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century.
Rush LimbaughWhen I'm traveling on tour one of my favorite things to do is to throw a baseball cap on and go to a Target. The company has always been good to me. They've got such a great creative team.
Christina AguileraIt is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
Charles DickensThe great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George OrwellA great mind becomes a great fortune.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThere is no mistake so great as the mistake of not going on.
William BlakeThe greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
William JamesThe overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
Franklin D. RooseveltAnalysis gave me great freedom of emotions and fantastic confidence. I felt I had served my time as a puppet.
Hedy LamarrI was set free because my greatest fear had been realized and I still had a daughter who I adored and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
J. K. RowlingThe wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao TzuThere is no greater delight than to be conscious of sincerity on self-examination.
MenciusWar is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity it destroys religion it destroys states it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it.
Martin LutherCharacter in great and little things means carrying through what you feel able to do.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Clothes and manners do not make the man, but when he is made they greatly improve his appearance.
Henry Ward BeecherThe greatest wealth is to live content with little for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.
LucretiusThe last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
T. S. EliotSilence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Thomas CarlyleAn association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas JeffersonIt gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
Albert EinsteinGreat is the guilt of an unnecessary war.
John AdamsMutability of temper and inconsistency with ourselves is the greatest weakness of human nature
Joseph AddisonThe great dialectic in our time is not as anciently and by some still supposed between capital and labor, it is between economic enterprise and the state.
John Kenneth GalbraithOne should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.
Joseph AddisonEvery normal person in fact is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.
Sigmund FreudOne sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak.
Gilbert K. ChestertonOf great wealth there is no real use except in its distribution the rest is just conceit.
Francis BaconIn action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work a great head.
Arthur SchopenhauerIt is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
Edmund BurkeWe played hard at both ends of the court. It's a great accomplishment for us. I'm excited more than anything.
Kobe BryantThe soles of Neil Armstrong's boots on the moon made permanent impressions on our souls and in our national psyche. Ann and I watched those steps together on her parent's sofa. Like all Americans we went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world. God bless Neil Armstrong.
Mitt RomneyThere is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so, but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis BaconThe slave is doomed to worship time and fate and death because they are greater than anything he finds in himself and because all his thoughts are of things which they devour.
Bertrand RussellGreat eagerness in the pursuit of wealth pleasure or honor cannot exist without sin.
Desiderius ErasmusNobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund BurkeFavor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
Franklin D. RooseveltThe greatness of art is not to find what is common but what is unique.
Isaac Bashevis SingerBooks are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
Joseph AddisonWhenever at a party I have been in the mood to study fools I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
Jean PaulI can't take credit for what's happening out there. I learned it all by watching tapes of Elgin Oscar Robertson and all the great players. I stole everything and incorporated it into my game.
Kobe BryantPeople of great position are servants times three servants of their country servants of fame and servants of business.
Francis BaconStates as great engines move slowly.
Francis BaconThe greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.
Marcus Tullius CiceroGreat persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
Emile M. CioranThe great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean you can always do it later.
Harvey FiersteinIf a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater.
BuddhaSurrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.
John LennonLike strawberry wives that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot and all the rest were little ones.
Francis BaconI just want to be recognized as a great player. That's what we all want. It's about getting the W's (wins) and nothing else. I can't let what people think or say about me bother me.
Kobe BryantIt was a great day especially with the weather. First the heat then the thunder then the sun again. For the overall standings it is great.
Lance ArmstrongGoodness makes greatness truly valuable and greatness make goodness much more serviceable.
Matthew HenryThe liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.
Sigmund FreudOur Generation has had no Great war no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.
Chuck PalahniukWe executed a lot better in the second quarter. Defensively we did a great job. We played hard. Lamar had a great game.
Kobe BryantIt is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
Baltasar GracianA great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
Benjamin FranklinYour decision to be have and do something out of ordinary entails facing difficulties that are out of the ordinary as well. Sometimes your greatest asset is simply your ability to stay with it longer than anyone else.
Brian TracyGod hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires
Francis BaconIn old times elders used to tell the young children all about the nation's great heroes and saints. Where are such elders today?
Sai BabaThe herd seek out the great not for their sake but for their influence, and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Napoleon BonaparteA mother should give her children a superabundance of enthusiasm; that after they have lost all they are sure to lose on mixing with the world, enough may still remain to prompt fated support them through great actions.
Augustus HareThe human understanding from its peculiar nature easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds
Francis BaconDo the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao TzuAt sixty I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty but I know a great deal more about folly.
Mason CooleyA great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
Oliver Wendell HolmesThe greatest mystery of existence is existence itself.
Deepak ChopraWith a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration or rather obliterates all consideration.
John KeatsMusic the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.
Joseph AddisonIf one oversteps the bounds of moderation the greatest pleasures cease to please.
EpictetusThe spacious firmament on high / And all the blue ethereal sky / And spangled heavens a shining frame / Their great Original proclaim.
Joseph AddisonOne of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness.
Josh BillingsThrift is of great revenue.
Marcus Tullius CiceroIn order to effect great change we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally.
Christina AguileraWhat's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.
Henry FordNo great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.
Theodore RooseveltThe theoretical understanding of the world which is the aim of philosophy is not a matter of great practical importance to animals or to savages or even to most civilised men.
Bertrand RussellThe Vision of Christ that thou dost see / Is my vision's greatest enemy.
William BlakeSorrows gather around great souls as storms do around mountains, but like them they break the storm and purify the air of the plain beneath them.
Jean PaulA man's worth is no greater than the worth of his ambitions
Marcus AureliusIf you don't know how great this country is I know someone who does, Russia.
Robert FrostGreat thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind but great actions speak to all mankind.
Theodore RooseveltThe greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin DisraeliThe United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
Colin PowellPassion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund BurkeIf you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
Lady GagaMany great actions are committed in small struggles.
Victor HugoIt takes a great man to be a good listener.
Calvin CoolidgePersonal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything or be anyone what do you do with it?
Chuck PalahniukCreative writers are always greater than the causes that they represent.
E. M. ForsterThe little may contrast with the great in painting but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast, but there are also colors contrary to each other that is which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.
VoltaireWhat seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Francois de La RochefoucauldIt's a great feeling when someone like Bernard Hinault comes up to you on the podium to say 'Welcome to the club
Lance ArmstrongThe conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
Sigmund Freud