“To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.”
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“Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.”
“I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.”
“Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.”
“I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.”
“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.”
“Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?”
“Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.”
“In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.”
“It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.”
“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.”
“She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”
“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.”
“People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
“I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.”
“I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.”
“People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.”
“I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.”
“God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.”
“God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.”
“The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.”
“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.”
“God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.”
“How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.”