“All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.”
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“The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.”
“A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.”
“It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.”
“The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.”
“It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.”
“You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great d--n personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.”
“I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.”
“People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.”
“So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.”
“A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.”
“As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.”
“It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.”
“Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.”
“I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.”
“To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.”
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.”
“Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.”
“Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.”
“Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.”
“In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.”
“I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.”
“Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.”
“I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.”