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.
Bill GatesExaminations are formidable even to the best prepared for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Caleb ColtonEventually I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.
Frank Lloyd WrightWords when well chosen have so great a force in them that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of things themselves
Joseph AddisonBecause of a great love one is courageous.
Lao TzuThe paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
Soren KierkegaardPrayer is mans greatest power!
W. Clement StoneWe are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.
Charles R. SwindollLittle minds are interested in the extraordinary, great minds in the commonplace.
Elbert HubbardGreat art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.
George Jean NathanIn spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil which I have forsaken in my great discouragement and I will go on with my drawing.
Vincent Van GoghA man is great by deeds not by birth.
ChanakyaGreat hypocrite are the real atheists
Francis BaconSuccess has always been a great liar.
Friedrich NietzscheThe Bee Gees who are brilliant I just love great music.
Michael JacksonThe greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
Rene DescartesGreat men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
AristotleWhoever we play it's going to be tough because it's two great teams. We just have to make sure we do our homework and go out there and try to execute.
Kobe BryantThe immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.
Blaise PascalMagnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund BurkeIt is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man and the security of a god.
Francis BaconMy greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.
Peter DruckerIn the United States I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.
Paulo CoelhoTranquil pleasures last the longest, we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.
Christian Nestell BoveeTo vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
Edgar Allan PoeTruth is a gem that is found at a great depth, whilst on the surface of this world all things are weighed by the false scale of custom
Lord ByronPeople might not think that but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.
Donald TrumpMan of all the animals is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy.
Jacques Yves CousteauLife inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
Emile M. CioranNothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
Honore de BalzacToo often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.
Eleanor RooseveltHe that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises either of virtue or mischief.
Francis BaconPoetry should be great and unobtrusive a thing which enters into one's soul and does not startle it or amaze it with itself but with its subject.
John KeatsThe old cathedrals are good but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Thomas CarlylePower is the great aphrodisiac.
Henry A. KissingerBaldwin thought Europe was a bore and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Winston ChurchillArt begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre GideThere is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George EliotRespect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great none so much needed now.
Frank Lloyd WrightWell I wouldn't say that I was in the great class but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.
Harry S. TrumanLife is very interesting... in the end some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.
Drew BarrymoreWe continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
Franklin D. RooseveltWe ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue.
PlatoOne has no great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.
Jane AustenModeration has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.
Benjamin DisraeliIt is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you have wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.
Charles LindberghMost people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowA great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
Walt WhitmanI would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them they'll run the other way.
Hedy LamarrMan seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues, capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
Gilbert K. ChestertonSmall natures require despotism to exercise their sinews as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
Honore de BalzacFishes live in the sea as men do a-land, the great ones eat up the little ones.
William ShakespeareMen in great place are thrice servants - servants of the sovereign or state servants of fame and servants of business.
Francis BaconTo be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOf all vices drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Walter ScottI believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here to vote here and to live here.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerMy idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.
Oprah WinfreyTimes of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.
Charles Caleb ColtonThere is no great genius without some touch of madness.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaHe who attends to his greater self becomes a great man and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.
MenciusWhat great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
Robert H. SchullerIf 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.
Steve JobsA great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated enriched heart.
Frank Lloyd WrightTo insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature "human" might be the greater insult.
Isaac AsimovThrough our great good fortune in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.
Oliver Wendell HolmesNo man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself.
James Russell LowellI have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Samuel JohnsonA great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
Albert SchweitzerGoverning a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
Lao TzuThose who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.
PlutarchHe that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time of course alter things to the worse and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better what shall be the end?.
Francis BaconIt always remains true that if we had been greater circumstance would have been less strong against us.
George EliotProduce great men the rest follows.
Walt WhitmanApparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost, without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Gore VidalThat is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires the birth and death of kings or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
Amelia BarrTonight - to you the great silent majority of my fellow Americans - I ask for your support.
Richard M. NixonThe contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.
Simone WeilThere is no greater evil for men than the constraint of fortune.
SophoclesThis is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.
Mitt RomneyAttachment is the great fabricator of illusions, reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
Simone WeilAnd what he greatly thought he nobly dared.
HomerPeople think that if you look fairly reasonable you can't possibly act and as I only care about acting I think beauty can be a great handicap.
Vivien LeighIt would be a great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread as easily and rapidly as folly.
Winston ChurchillThe difficulty is not so great to die for a friend as to find a friend worth dying for.
HomerThe 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?'
Sigmund FreudThe Christian has greatly the advantage of the unbeliever having everything to gain and nothing to lose
Lord ByronThe principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.
Mitt RomneyThe years like great black oxen tread the world and God the herdsman goads them on behind and I am broken by their passing feet.
William Butler YeatsA great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.
Friedrich NietzscheI just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself as well as a child.
Hillary ClintonThe only greatness for man is immortality.
James DeanThe greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
Mahatma GandhiGreat souls suffer in silence.
Friedrich SchillerAll great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard ShawWouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?
Colin PowellI think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents period not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.
Donald TrumpYou are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply with greater vision with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.
Woodrow WilsonIn general it can be said that a nation's art is greatest when it most reflects the character of its people.
Edward HopperIt does not take much strength to do things but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
Elbert HubbardWe may seem great in an employment below our worth but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.
Francois de La RochefoucauldI conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin FranklinWe're a diverse society and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings that we can all get along that we can all be together and I think that's a marvelous thing.
Billy GrahamIt is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMaterial possessions winning scores and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.
John WoodenSmallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
Victor HugoThe greatest accomplishment is not in never falling but in rising again after you fall.
Vince LombardiI cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings, and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of.
Jane AustenIt is impossible as impossible as to raise the dead to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman can never be recalled.
John RuskinConsider that thou dost not even understand whether men are doing wrong or not for many things are done with a certain reference to circumstance. And in short a man must learn a great deal to enable him to pass a correct judgment on another man's acts.
Marcus AureliusThe genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.
Alexis de TocquevilleWhy do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.
Henry RollinsI would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.
John KeatsThere were times when I had great times with my brothers pillow fights and things but I was used to always cry from loneliness.
Michael JacksonTo know how to hide one's ability is great skill.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWe are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
John W. GardnerThe greater intellect one has the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.
Blaise PascalHe that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator.
Francis BaconDeath comes to all but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLife's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor HugoAnd your very flesh shall be a great poem.
Walt WhitmanWe have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society but upward to the Great Society.
Lyndon B. JohnsonI see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.
Walt WhitmanPeace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
Thomas MertonWe just fell right in line with what we are supposed to do. Lamar is such a great facilitator he takes a load off of my shoulders. I can just focus on putting the ball in the basket and he becomes the facilitator for our team.
Kobe Bryantone of the fortuitous events one of the great pieces of luck in my life.
Woody AllenA true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Francois de La RochefoucauldThe creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart given surnames and Christian names and sent to walk the earth.
William Butler YeatsAll truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich NietzscheShawn Marion is a great defender but Lamar is a great player.
Kobe BryantOf mankind in general the parts are greater than the whole
AristotleIf you know how to read you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers and we should keep it that way.
Ray BradburyThey say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.
David Herbert LawrenceOf all virtues and dignities of the mind goodness is the greatest being the character of the Deity, and without it man is a busy mischievous wretched thing.
Francis BaconThere's a great power in words if you don't hitch too many of them together.
Josh BillingsWhen a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis BaconIt would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.
Andy WarholMan is only great when he acts from passion.
Benjamin DisraeliI have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man and enjoy the sweet security of the streets.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe aim of literary ambition is to demonstrate one's greatness of soul.
Mason CooleyOur object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole and not that of any one class.
PlatoThe machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.
Antoine de Saint-ExuperyIt's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.
E. O. WilsonNo great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.
George EliotGreater love hath no man than to attend the Episcopal Church with his wife.
Lyndon B. JohnsonGreat indeed is the sublimity of the Creative to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.
Lao TzuBrevity is a great charm of eloquence.
Marcus Tullius CiceroThe first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself, to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile.
PlatoIt's easier to say that I am a radical Atheist just to signal that I really mean it have thought about it a great deal and that it's an opinion I hold seriously.
Douglas AdamsOn a level plain simple mounds look like hills, and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.
Karl MarxNever think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin this is the only sin, to say that you are weak or others are weak.
Swami VivekanandaNever give in never give in never, never, never, never - in nothing great or small large or petty - never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense
Winston ChurchillBeware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
Benjamin FranklinI think in a way I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.
Chuck PalahniukA great thing can only be done by a great person, and they do it without effort.
John RuskinThe greatest remedy for anger is delay.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaTo be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe think the Mac will sell zillions but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.
Steve JobsProsperity is a great teacher, adversity a greater.
William HazlittWhen however the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion - the distinguished but elderly scientists are then after all probably right
Isaac AsimovToleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
Frank Lloyd WrightHe had a great game. He did exactly what they brought him here for. He made timely baskets. Gary's been a heck of a defender his entire career. He actually taught me how to play defense. I wasn't surprised at all.
Kobe BryantI believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.
Lyndon B. JohnsonMany a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.
Orison Swett MardenBase souls have no faith in great individuals.
Jean-Jacques RousseauWhat we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas CarlyleBeauty is the greatest seducer of man.
Paulo CoelhoAlmost everything that is great has been done by youth.
Benjamin DisraeliNo person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter he can only be a builder.
John RuskinNobody I think ought to read poetry or look at pictures or statues who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Nathaniel HawthorneForgive O Lord my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Robert FrostResponsibility is the price of greatness.
Winston ChurchillMan's greatness lies in his power of thought.
Blaise PascalI care about our young people and I wish them great success because they are our Hope for the Future and some day when my generation retires they will have to pay us trillions of dollars in social security
Dave BarryNo greater thing 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.
EpictetusDifferent taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.
George EliotA cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most real blessings or misfortunes
Joseph AddisonThere are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
Niels BohrIn America the race goes to the loud the solemn the hustler. If you think you're a great writer you must say that you are.
Gore VidalOffer all bitterness in the sacred Fire and emerge grand great and godly.
Sai BabaGreat men unknown to their generation have their fame among the great who have preceded them and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.
Henry David ThoreauIt's a great country where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
Barry GoldwaterThe greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
EpictetusHubris is one of the great renewable resources.
P. J. O'RourkeMan as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster a great brutish idiot that goes where prodded.
Charlie ChaplinThere may be a great fire in our hearts yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.
Vincent Van GoghA constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
Orison Swett MardenWith people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
Arthur SchopenhauerExpecting is the greatest impediment to living. In anticipation of tomorrow it loses today.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaIn everything satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.
Marcus Tullius CiceroNo employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.
Orison Swett MardenThe charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached even death.
Blaise PascalNo great thing is created suddenly.
EpictetusThe major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.
Jim RohnThe boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.
Theodore RooseveltThere are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord but few of us are willing to do little things.
Dwight L. MoodyThe greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success and there is no other.
Orison Swett MardenThe great majority of men especially in France both desire and possess a fashionable woman much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.
StendhalI always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
Winston ChurchillIt's been quite a roller coaster ride but I've grown and learned a lot about myself. The greatest thing is being able to interact with fans and touch people's lives... for that I give thanks.
Christina AguileraThere is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Victor HugoThe man who throws a bomb is an artist because he prefers a great moment to everything.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.
Ron WhiteEvery year August lashes out in volcanic fury, rising with the din of morning traffic, its great metallic wings smashing against the ground, heating the air with ever-increasing intensity.
Henry RollinsLife in abundance comes only through great love.
Elbert HubbardGreat things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.
George EliotI have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
John SteinbeckPeople with great gifts are easy to find but symmetrical and balanced ones never.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIf pleasures are greatest in anticipation just remember that this is also true of trouble.
Elbert HubbardThe 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.
Jacques Yves CousteauIn any great organization it is far far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
John Kenneth GalbraithThe greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green IngersollA lot of companies have chosen to downsize and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers they would continue to open their wallets.
Steve JobsWithout doubt machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
Karl MarxTonight we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers or the power of our military or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Barack ObamaI was a great student at a great school Wharton School of Finance.
Donald TrumpHowever great a man's natural talent may be the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
Jean-Jacques RousseauI believe greatness is an evolutionary process that changes and evolves era to era.
Michael JordanI have a great respect for incremental improvement and I've done that sort of thing in my life but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.
Steve JobsThe America we all know has been a story of the many becoming one, uniting to preserve liberty, uniting to build the greatest economy in the world, uniting to save the world from unspeakable darkness.
Mitt RomneyThe great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
George Bernard ShawA 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.
Frederick DouglassWhen small men attempt great enterprises they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon BonaparteFriendship is the source of the greatest pleasures and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas AquinasThere have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man let us have the great thing.
Victor HugoThe alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
Arthur SchopenhauerBaseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard ShawThe newspapers have a great role to play, but they are content to cater to the vulgar tastes and become waste papers soon.
Sai BabaFor there is no defense for a man who in the excess of his wealth has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.
AeschylusI'm playing against great players playing against the best in the world. The competition - that's what I've always wanted.
Kobe BryantMarriage is a great institution but I'm not ready for an institution.
Mae WestWith no matter what human being taken individually I always find reasons for concluding that sorrow and misfortune do not suit him, either because he seems too mediocre for anything so great or on the contrary too precious to be destroyed.
Simone WeilGreat geniuses have the shortest biographies.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAdvertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
Calvin CoolidgeHis was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.
F. Scott FitzgeraldAnoint v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
Ambrose BierceLuther was guilty of two great crimes - he struck the Pope in his crown and the monks in their belly.
Desiderius ErasmusWhoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth great return great satisfaction great reputation and great joy.
Jim RohnPeople do not understand what a great revenue economy is.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWhat is needed today is that we should lead a life of good quality. The fostering of sterling character and good conduct is the need of the world. Once we have greater numbers of such people of good quality the country and the world will become prosperous and peaceful.
Sai BabaAnts are the dominant insects of the world and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
E. O. WilsonPerseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowIt's Phil and the system -- absolutely ... It feels great it's a beautiful system. When everything's clicking it's a beautiful thing to watch.
Kobe BryantThe good of the people is the greatest law.
Marcus Tullius Cicero