Quotes with great-sounding

Quotes 1961 till 1980 of 2172.

  • Eli Stanley Jones We grow small trying to be great.
    Eli Stanley Jones
    American missionary and theologian (1884 - 1973)
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  • Aesop We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Butch Trucks We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Benedict Arnold We have but very indifferent men in general. Great part of those who ship for seamen know very little of the matter.
    Letter to General Gates (7 September 1776), in Battle of Valcour on Lake Champlain, October 11th, 1776 by Peter Sailly Palmer(1876) p. 5
    Benedict Arnold
    American military officer (1741 - 1801)
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  • Bella Thorne We have disappointments all the time in the business, and I've lost way more projects than I've booked. I've learned from every opportunity and have been chosen for some really great projects!
    Bella Thorne
    American actress, model, singer, and director (1997 - )
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  • Bobby Bonilla We have to have great pitching performances from our guys, and we have to take it from there.
    Bobby Bonilla
    American Major League Baseball player (1963 - )
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  • Abigail Adams We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Barbara Boxer We know no document is perfect, but when we amend the Constitution, it would be to expand rights, not to take away rights from decent, loyal Americans. This great Constitution of ours should never be used to make a group of Americans permanent second-class citizens.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Avi Arad We love Cyclops and as you know, we love James. It's a great team and we'll continue the team, obviously.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • G.W.F. Hegel We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Edmund Burke We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Martin Luther King We must use time creatively - and forever realize that the time is always hope to do great things.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Carolyn Maloney We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the services that a great city needs, who understand the need of working families.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • Mark Twain We owe a deep debt of gratitude to Adam, the first great benefactor of the human race: he brought death into the world.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Bob Iger We really believe that Walt Disney is a very able company with great depth and a great set of franchises.
    Bob Iger
    American business executive (1951 - )
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  • Alexander Volkov We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention.
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  • Don Marquis We shall problably have nothing to say, but we intend to say it at great length.
    Don Marquis
    American writer (1878 - 1937)
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  • John Locke We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • B. F. Skinner We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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