Excellence costs a great deal.

It’s extraordinary how little two people can understand each other and how cruel two people who are fond of each other can be to each other – there is practically no cruelty so awful because their power to hurt is so great.

The capacity for not thinking is a great gift.

A great nation is not built on wealth, but on wisdom and righteousness.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal.

I am a great movie buff, and I devour films regularly.

Cricket is a great leveller. No matter how good you are, you will get tested.

It would be great to be able to pass on to someone all of the successes, the failures, and the knowledge that one has had. To help someone, avoid all the fire, pain and anxiety would be wonderful.

I don’t think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You’ve got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition’s an opportunity to have an audience.

True leaders are not afraid to delegate. They know that it is only by empowering others and trusting them that great achievements can be made.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.

I think globalization is a great thing. And now a lot of people complain about globalization; a lot of people don’t like, you know, the globalize of the concept, the idea of the results. I think the globalization is a great idea and to create a lot of jobs.

Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.

The great artist is the simplifier.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great!

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

The great mystery of adaptation is that true fidelity can only be achieved through lavish promiscuity.

Acting is a great way to express yourself, but it also teaches you a lot about others.

Great patience is called for on the hard path that I have entered on.

I am a great admirer of the arts, but I also love the satisfaction of bringing my vision into reality.

A great poet is the most precious gem in the world.

A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess?

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

We’ve been filled with great treasure for one purpose: to be spilled.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

Teamwork makes a good spinner great.

I don’t care if I’m not famous forever. I just want to make great music.

I’ve been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion – great belief – and these films slightly don’t work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.

I would rather be a part of a great team than a great individual.

He’s very competitive and knows what he wants. He has developed toughness in character and that is what is needed for Indian cricket. Ganguly has proved to be one of the best captains. He has now acquired great leadership qualities.

The resilience of these people is amazing. I am a great believer that the sooner we get things up and running in terms of sport in this area, the better.

Man’s great power of thinking, remembering, and communicating are responsible for the evolution of civilization.

The most important thing is to have a great idea and to work hard.

You have to take risks to create something great.

I may have a bad mouth, but I can do great things.

The great successes of science can only be achieved if one is willing to take risks.

To be a great artist, you have to be fearless.

I have a great deal of confidence in the future of the Analytical Engine.

The intellectual, the moral, the religious seem to me all naturally bound up and interlinked together in one great and harmonious whole.

There is no great invention without a great imagination.

In the great drama of existence we are audience and actors at the same time.

There are trivial truths and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

A great scientist is a great teacher.

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

While GeoCities isn’t cool, it isn’t a bad thing. It did a great thing – enabled great people to instantly publish to the Web.

Great companies are built on great culture.

It is so great that fashion is not a question of price, and it can be more accessible to everyone interested in fashion.

You have to want it and put the work in to be great.

I have a great time cooking and eating Thai green chicken curry.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

Great players are willing to do what ordinary players are not.

Although we lost it has been a great Test and one of the best I have ever played in. Hopefully the next one will be exactly the same.

Winning is great, but it’s not everything.

Cricket is a great leveler. One moment you’re on top of the world, the next you’re not.

The key to being a great spin bowler is having the ability to bowl with a lot of variations.

Humor is a great way to connect with people and make them feel at ease.

I know that when you’re a teenager – sometimes when you’re an adult – what sets you apart can sometimes feel like a burden and it’s not. A lot of the time, it’s what makes you great.

My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don’t know the full story on whether someone is too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too loud, too quiet, too anything. There’s a sense that we’re all too something, and we’re all not enough.

My favorite thing about movies is the ending, and so all my favorite movies have really great endings.

Sourav is a great captain and we should be proud of such a leader.

It’s a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.

If someone ever says you’re weird, just remember, every great person in history was considered weird. Embrace your weirdness and go conquer the world!

You don’t have to be a great singer to make a great record.

They build machines they can’t control, and bury the waste in a great big hole.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

I wasn’t the fastest or the strongest, but I had a great understanding of the game.

You don’t have to be flashy to be great. You just have to be effective.

I just want to build great products.

We believe that we’re on the face of the earth to make great products, and that’s not changing.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work.

We’re not here to make money. We’re here to make great products and great things.

Great achievements are often the result of collective effort.

Invest in people; they are the greatest asset of any organization.

You have to manage money. Particularly with market economies. You may have a great product, but if your bottom line goes bust then that’s it.

I want to be the best player in the world, but I also want to be a great person.

Really great blogs do not take the place of great microprocessors. Great blogs do not replace great software. Lots and lots of blogs does not replace lots and lots of sales.

Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure.

In order to do something great, you have to be willing to be misunderstood.

Great companies are built on great products.

You may think using Google’s great, but I still think it’s terrible.

Great things never come from comfort zones.

Fashion advice from the Tooth Fairy, that’s great.

We in the Great White North but you can bite my White South!

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider – who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.

I am grateful for the support and encouragement of those around me.

The love of a mother is the greatest gift of all.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

I am very glad to hear that you are well and happy.

The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!

I do not care to be a great queen. I care to be a good queen.

The great thing about the British people is their unshakable faith in themselves.

I’m grateful for my fans and the support they’ve shown me over the years.

I’m just really happy with who I am and what I’ve done. I’m grateful for it.

I have a great time with my life, and I wanna share it.

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

Mountains are a great teacher of perseverance and strength.

With all respect, Sahib, you have little to teach us in strength and toughness. And we do not envy you your restless spirits. Perhaps we are happier than you? But we would like our children to go to school. Of all the things you have, learning is the one we most desire for our children.

As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.

Russia is a land of great potential and opportunity.

I have a great relationship with the blacks.

It’s going to be a great wall. It’s going to be a big wall.

I’m the greatest dealmaker ever.

Great storytelling in film involves both emotional and intellectual engagement.

It’s a great feat for me to have broken my world record.

In great attempts, it is glorious even to fail.

A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive, and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.

I do what I do. You like it, great. You don’t, go listen to somebody else. I’m stickin’ with the people that stuck with me.

For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life.

Great is the difference betwixt a man’s being frightened at, and humbled for his sins

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it

The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.

Miami was always a town that was kind to me as a wrestler. It’s a great wrestling town, and it’s a great town, period. There’s so much to do in Miami.

I feel great. I had a blood clot. It was a bad deal. But when I look at my friends with hip replacements, knee replacements, shoulder replacements, neck surgeries, back surgeries, I’ll take the blood clot.

I don’’t think there was one. I can’’t name one. Not because I had a lot of great feuds, but it would be hard to say the defining feud.

Aschenbach stated outright that nearly everything great owes its existence to “despites”: despite misery

Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leaven them alone and they will soon be great.

Whenever someone great passes, all of us have a loss.

I thought, ‘Oh, this is great,’ because maybe someone who does look like me will watch ‘Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.’ and realize that they can be an actor if they want to be, or they can be a superhero. They can have a hero that looks like them as well.

If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable.

The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little

Then none was for a party; Than all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned; Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old

The only way to do great work is to love what you do

The great cause of revolutions is this, that while nations move onward, constitutions stand still

In a sense, there’s a great truth to that, but, also I was a great reader.

The custom of the Church has very great authority and ought to be jealously observed in all things.

Pitbull has always been great – he represents Latinos.

Camila Cabello, she’s great.

The great thing in life is efficiency. If you amount to anything in the world, your time is valuable, your energy precious

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness

The greatest gift you can give another is the purity of your attention

There is no joy so great as that of feeling oneself a creator. The triumph of life is expressed by creation

We had some great set-ups with Inge and Jessica Miller in the middle, … Inge gets better and better everyday. I think at first she had to get used to what was going on, but she is really starting to move the ball well and ignite our attack.

Great talents have some admirers, but few friends.

I’ve – well, I’ve been down in the Pit,” Joe succeeded in blurting out. “I must confess that you look like it – very much like it indeed.” Mr. Bronson spoke severely, but if ever by great effort he conquered a smile, that was the time. “I presume,” he went on, “that you do not refer to the abiding-place of sinners, but rather to some definite locality in San Francisco. Am I right?

It was illumination, a great light in the darkness of his ignorance, and he read poetry more avidly than ever.

“Fie! One point twenty-one in gigawatts! Foh! Gigawatts of one point twenty-one! Great Scott! What have I done? How can it be?”

“ACKBAR – O knavery Most vile, O trick of Empire’s basest wit. A snare, a ruse, a ploy: and we the fools. What great deception hath been plied today – O rebels, do you hear? Fie, ’tis a trap!”

It must always remain the great curiosity of history – a whim, a fantasy, an apparition, a thing unexpected and undreamed; and it should serve as a warning to those rash political theorists of to-day who speak with certitude of social processes. Capitalism.

Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.

I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.

I’ve always felt that some of my best lyrics are less than three minutes long, and it’s great when you can do that – be succinct and get the message across in a simple, clear idea.

And then, in splendor and glory, came the great idea. He would write. He would be one of the eyes through which the world saw, one of the ears through which it heard, one of the hearts through which it felt.

On the other hand, the great helpless mass of the population, the people of the abyss, was sinking into a brutish apathy of content with misery

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

No I’m not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don’t think we actually get anywhere on that.

Luck is great, but most of life is hard work.

I think maybe since there isn’t a great deal of access to the mainstream media and people don’t understand the language of mainstream media, if you put music out there with lyrics that are loosely political, people absorb some of it and spit it back out.

Great artists need great clients

Great artists need great clients.

Great artists need great clients.

There are a lot of people in Congress who would never have made a great career or fortune in any other profession. But after they spend a while hanging out with the rich guys, they begin to feel they’ve been undervalued, and that an eventual seven-figure income as a lobbyist isn’t just an opportunity, it’s their due.

I am prepared to admit that when it comes to dealing with the House and Senate leaders, Obama is terrible. But he’s great with the public. Which hates the House and Senate as much as he does.

The ghostly winter silence had given way to the great spring murmur of awakening life.

My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient ancestry. I reject the heritage. I break the entail. And who are you to say I am unwise?

Madrid and London are great.

It was great out there and it was a personal best for me. The sport has picked up a lot in last few years and Indians are doing so well in it.

God gave me such great abilities, and sometimes that’s a strength and sometimes it’s not a strength. It’s just the way it is.

Wayne Rooney would have been great to play with. He is one of the best strikers in the world and this is also a guy who has scored against me every time I’ve played him.

I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.

I love the Comedy Cellar. The audience has no expectations because they don’t know me. It’s great. It’s only winning – if I bomb, they just say, ‘Oh, the French guy sucks.’ But if I do well, then they remember me.

I am not dependent on Pep. He is a great coach, but I do not need to take the same path as him.

Jesus does not demand great actions from us, but simply surrender and gratitude.