Quotes with great-sounding

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  • O. S. Hawkins What makes a church great in the eyes of God? Participation, proclamation, preservation, and propagation. Every church ought to exhibit all four.
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  • Roy Thompson What makes a hero truly great is that they never despair.
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  • Bill Nye What makes the United States great, the reason people wanted to live in the United States, move here still, is because of our ability to innovate.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Bela Karolyi What makes the vault so spectacular is because it's a very athletic type of event, where it needs a lot of speed, a lot of explosive action and, of course, great coordination.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • Joseph Campbell What millions died that Caesar might be great?
    Joseph Campbell
    American mythologist (1904 - 1987)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed and not for pay? Absurd or insincere?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • George Eliot What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Campbell Scott What we do at its very, very best, at its very, very most, will shift us slightly in our seat. If only for two hours, great. If for the rest of our lives, even better.
    Campbell Scott
    American actor, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Barry Manilow What we hear now is great-sounding records with great-sounding grooves and loops. And the sound of these records is irresistible, but the craft of songwriting is just about over. That's why, whenever I get an opportunity to do an album full of standards, I jump at it because I miss it.
    Barry Manilow
    American singer-songwriter, producer and actor (1943 - )
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  • Nora Ephron What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
    Nora Ephron
    American journalist, writer, and filmmaker (1941 - 2012)
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  • Barney Frank What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities, because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences, because it's not profitable, and now Newt, as the highest-paid historian in American history, may be an encouragement to people to study history.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson What your heart thinks is great, is great. The soul's emphasis is always right.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bonnie Bassler What's great about bacteria is you have a surprise every day waiting for you because they're so fast, they grow overnight.
    Bonnie Bassler
    American molecular biologist
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  • Andy Warhol What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Henry Ford What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect and resources - to do something about them.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Maya Angelou Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Bill Engvall When 'Blue Collar TV' was on the 'WB,' we were their second-highest rated show, but they didn't know what to do with us. They had 'Reba,' which was number one, and we were number two, and they didn't want to be known as the hayseed network, so they kind of dropped us, even though we were pulling great numbers.
    Bill Engvall
    American comedian and actor (1957 - )
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