- Nov 07, 2020
Great Quotes
Quotes on great moments and discoveries.
These quotes use 'great' to describe very different things - a lifelong search for spiritual mystery, nostalgic memories of finding great music collections while living abroad, and an honest mix of great and difficult experiences tied to identity and pride. Related reading: Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
To want friendship is a great fault. Friendship ought to be a gratuitous joy, like the joys afforded by art or life.
- Reality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Damn the great executives, the men of measured merriment, damn the men with careful smiles oh, damn their measured merriment.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you look at the great Westerns, and at Greek, Roman, and Norse mythology, they all contain elements in common: a harsh landscape; demons or outlaws trying to stop or kill the protagonist; and there are mythical legends at their core, innate in all cultures.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
The reports of the eclipse parties not only described the scientific observations in great detail, but also the travels and experiences, and were sometimes marked by a piquancy not common in official documents.
- Big Part
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- Nov 07, 2020
Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My worst and best qualities are rashness: the good part of it is due to youth, which is, of course, why I'm not a great conductor.
- Chronology
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am strongly of the opinion that chronology is very important. The great arc of time is what children are wired for.
- Improvement
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- Nov 07, 2020
With popular rulers, the wife can become the guardian of their greatness: Peter the Great was succeeded by his wife, Catherine I. Sometimes the wives are an improvement.
- Said
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- Nov 07, 2020
Putin regards Stalin as a great tsar; he is a great tsar. Asked who the worst tsars were, he said Nicholas II and Gorbachev.
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vanishing of David Tang is like the unthinkable diappearance of a magnificent palace on a mythical mountaintop. He was a dreammaker, pianist, adventurer, writer, entrepreneur, scholar, connoisseur, and a great friend.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a passionate nonfinisher. Life is too short, and there are too many great books to read, so if I lose interest or respect, I switch. But when, of course, when you really fall in love with a book, all the others are ignored.
- Brother
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- Nov 07, 2020