Quotes with greatness-great

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  • George Eliot When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bob Hope When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Bob Hope When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.
    Bob Hope
    American comedian, actor (1903 - 2003)
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  • Butch Trucks When we started the Allman Brothers Band, there was this great new technology that allowed us to get exposure: FM radio.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Campbell Brown When Wolf Blitzer wears a not-so-great tie, how much e-mail do you think he gets? My point is, for women, unfortunately, appearance is part of the job.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Muhammad Ali When you are as great as I am it is hard to be humble.
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh When you are in deep meditation, you feel a great serenity, a joy that is unknown to you, a watchfulness that is a new guest. Soon this watchfulness will become the host. The day the watchfulness becomes the host, it remains twenty-four hours with you. And out of this watchfulness, whatever you do has a wisdom in it. Whatever you do shows a clarity, a purity, a spontaneity, a grace.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Stephen Vizinczey When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.
    Stephen Vizinczey
    Hungarian writer and critic (1933 - 2021)
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  • Bartlett Sher When you make new musicals, you have the great freedom and the great burden that it can be changed.
    Bartlett Sher
    American theatre director (1959 - )
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  • Cass McCombs When you play with great musicians, whether they're schooled or self-taught, they keep you on your toes. It comes down to people's personalities and individual energies.
    Cass McCombs
    American musician (1977 - )
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  • Carl Stokes When you realize that people have that sort of feeling about you, that you're going to be some sort of savior from their dilemma, it's very sobering, because it imposes a great responsibility upon you.
    Carl Stokes
    American politician and diplomat (1927 - 1996)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon When you see a great deal of religion displayed in his shop window, you may depend on it, that he keeps a very small stock of it within.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Ben Shahn When you talk about war on poverty it doesn't mean very much; but if you can show to some degree this sort of thing then you can show a great deal more of how people are living and a very great percentage of our people today.
    Ben Shahn
    Lithuanian-born American artist (1898 - 1969)
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  • Barkhad Abdi When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.
    Barkhad Abdi
    Somali–American actor and director (1985 - )
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  • Yann Martel When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.
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    Yann Martel
    Canadian author (1963 - )
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  • W. M. Thackeray Whenever he met a great man he groveled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Whenever there are great virtues, it's a sure sign something's wrong.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Bartlett Sher Whenever you do a new interpretation of a great, previous text of any kind, you always look for some kind of immediate significance right now.
    Bartlett Sher
    American theatre director (1959 - )
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  • Jean Paul Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.
    Jean Paul
    German poet (ps. by Johann P.F. Richter) (1763 - 1825)
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