Famous Quotes About great

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.