Quotes about Great
Why does he send war and epidemics? What does the heat of this great anger mean? Surely dying times are to make men die to the world.
— Thomas Watson
Because so many times what keeps us in that valley of depression, what keeps us in that valley of frustration, is our response to a moment and not recognizing that it is exactly that. It's a moment. It's one scene of your movie. And what makes a great movie are scenes that are put together of great conflict.
— Oprah Winfrey
It has been said that the great events of the world take place in the brain. It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.
— Oscar Wilde
We've been a long time without a nuclear war. Yes. Well, it's probably like any bankruptcy. The longer you're able to put it off the worse it's going to be. The next great war wont arrive until everyone who remembers the last one is dead.
— Cormac McCarthy
The dying man sang with great clarity and intention and the riders setting forth upcountry may have ridden more slowly the longer to hear him for they were of just these qualities themselves.
— Cormac McCarthy
Great is life...and real and mystical...wherever and whoever, Great is death...Sure as life holds all parts together, death holds all parts together; Sure as the stars return again after they merge on the light, death is as great as life.
— Walt Whitman
Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
— George Bernard Shaw
In matters of great importance, style, not sincerity is the vital thing.
— Oscar Wilde
The great events of the world take place in the Brain. It is in the Brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also.
— Oscar Wilde
It has all the terrible beauty of a Greek tragedy, a tragedy in which I took a great part, but by which I have not been wounded.
— Oscar Wilde
All ages of belief have been great; all of unbelief have been mean.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Today we're all alike, all of us bound together by our shared apathy toward work. That very apathy has become a passion. The one great collective passion of our time.
— Milan Kundera