Quotes about Great
The crowds and centuries of books are only commentary and elucidation, echoes and weakeners of those few great voices of Time.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
At the heart of all great movements is a recovery of a simple Christology (essential conceptions of who Jesus is and what he does), yet one that accurately reflects the Jesus of New Testament faith—they are in a very literal sense Jesus movements.
- Alan Hirsch
One could construe the life of man as a great discourse in which the various people represent different parts of speech (the same might apply to states).
- Soren Kierkegaard
A man's contentment is in his mind, not in the extent of his possessions. Alexander the Great, with all the world at his feet, cries for another world to conquer.
- Charles Spurgeon
Life is short; this being so, who would pursue great things and not bear with what is at hand? These are the ways of madmen and men of evil counsel, at least in my judgment.
- Euripides
We have the men--the skill--the wealth--and above all, the will.... We must be the great arsenal of democracy.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.
- John Donne
If you look at all the movies that have made tons of money, almost all of them are great movies. Even Titanic. I think Titanic is a great movie.
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!
- Martin Luther
That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.
- Brother Lawrence
God forbid we should have great institutions. The thing is to have many small centres. The ideal is community.
- Dorothy Day