“No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.”
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“No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.”
“Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?”
“It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.”
“Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.”
“What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.”
“It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.”
“It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.”
“The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.”
“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.”
“If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.”
“Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.”
“There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.”
“Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.”
“The internet is a great way to get on the net.”
“Life should be great rather than long.”
“He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.”
“The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.”
“Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.”
“The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.”
“Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.”
“Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.”
“By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.”