“Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.”
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“Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”
“What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?”
“There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.”
“Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.”
“In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.”
“Great loves too must be endured.”
“I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.”
“If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.”
“We need a great president.”
“Great events make me quiet and calm it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.”
“I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.'”
“Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.”
“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”
“Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.”
“If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.”
“After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.”
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.”
“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.”
“On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.”
“No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.”
“Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.”
“You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.”