Quotes with greatness-great

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  • J. G. Ballard I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Franklin Pierce Adams I find that a great part of the information I have, was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
    Franklin Pierce Adams
    American columnist, well known by his initials F.P.A., and wit (1881 - 1960)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • William Congreve I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
    William Congreve
    British Dramatist (1670 - 1729)
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  • Brooke Burke I go to Saint Barth in the French West Indies for two weeks each year. That place is amazing. Amazing people, beautiful beaches, great wine, wonderful harbors... It's incredibly romantic.
    Brooke Burke
    American actress, dancer, model (1971 - )
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  • Thomas Carlyle I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing - a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Albert Ellis I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Brock Lesnar I had a great run with WWE. WWE gave me great visibility. I met my wife there, and I got paid a lot of money; it was just my time to go. I sensed it. I was smart enough to leave. That's the bottom line.
    Brock Lesnar
    American professional wrestler (1977 - )
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  • Alexander the Great I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • William Butler Yeats I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I hate the noise and hurry inseparable from great Estates and Titles, and look upon both as blessings that ought only to be given to fools, for 'Tis only to them that they are blessings.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Alan Dundes I have a great advantage over many of my colleagues inasmuch as my students bring with them to class their own personal knowledge of national, regional, religious, ethnic, occupational, and family folklore traditions.
    Alan Dundes
    American folklorist
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Jimi Celeste I have a great dog. She's half Labrador, half pit bull. It's a good combination. Sure, she might bite off my leg, but she'll bring it back to me.
    Jimi Celeste
    American photographer and humorist
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  • Orson Welles I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Lord George Byron I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Aishwarya Rai I have a great story to tell... and I tell it well. No holds barred.
    Aishwarya Rai
    Indian actress and model (1973 - )
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  • Jean Cocteau I have a piece of great and sad news to tell you: I am dead.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Martin Luther King I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Samuel Johnson I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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