Quotes with great-sounding

Quotes 1741 till 1760 of 2172.

  • William Butler Yeats The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Bernard Mandeville Then leave Complaints: Fools only strive
    To make a Great an Honest Hive.
    T'enjoy the World's Conveniences,
    Be fam'd in War, yet live in Ease,
    Without great Vices, is a vain
    Eutopia seated in the Brain.
    The Fable of the Bees The Moral, line 1, p. 23
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Calvin Klein There are a lot of gay people in fashion, but it's not as if every gay person is a great creator.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Margot Asquith There are big men, men of intellect, intellectual men, men of talent and men of action; but the great man is difficult to find, and it needs - apart from discernment - a certain greatness to find him.
    Margot Asquith
    Anglo-Scottish socialite, author, and wit (1864 - 1945)
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  • Ernest Hemingway There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Anne Brontë There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • George M. Adams There are high spots in all of our lives and most of them have come about through encouragement from someone else. I don't care how great, how famous or successful a man or woman may be, each hungers for applause.
    George M. Adams
    American newspaper columnist (1878 - 1962)
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  • Ben Elton There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • Dwight L. Moody There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Bill James There are many things that you can't measure. But the great fun of what I do for a living is figuring out ways to measure things that people previously considered intangible.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Carlos Fuentes There are now 30-year-old Mexican writers who do great novels in which Mexico isn't even mentioned.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Caroline Wozniacki There are periods when you feel really good. You feel the ball is bigger. The court is larger. You feel like you can't miss. And then there are periods when you feel, 'OK, I'm not feeling great.' But I still need to try to find a way to win.
    Caroline Wozniacki
    Danish tennis player (1990 - )
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  • Bobby Flay There are so many great things about this business. Almost everybody is on the same team. It is all for one-friendly competitiveness. No one is out to hurt anyone.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Niels Bohr There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Niels Bohr There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
    Niels Bohr
    Danish scientist and physicist (1885 - 1962)
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  • Brad Feld There are two great fictional TV series about technology and the computer industry that each have now had three seasons. The one everyone knows about is 'Silicon Valley.' The lesser-known one is 'Halt and Catch Fire.'
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey There are two great forces in this world - good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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  • Billy Graham There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Samuel Butler There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an exception to the rule.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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