“Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.”
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“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.”
“What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.”
“My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.”
“Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.”
“Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.”
“There is something great and terrible about suicide.”
“No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.”
“You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.”
“Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.”
“My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.”
“To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.”
“Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.”
“The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.”
“Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.”
“From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.”
“I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.”
“I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.”
“Americans are blessed with great plenty we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.”
“Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.”
“I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.”
“The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”
“A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.”
“I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.”