Like Great Quotes
38 quotes by 37 authors
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Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.
— Mark Twain
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It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Greece won the 2004 European Championship with the oldest trick in the book: man-for-man marking. Why? Because nobody expected it - and by the time…
— Martin Samuel
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In towns it is impossible to prevent men from assembling, getting excited together and forming sudden passionate resolves. Towns are like great meeting houses with…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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I'm just really happy, because I think we're a great band, and I really like great bands.
— Krist Novoselic
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Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.
— Victor Hugo
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Don't expect wisdom to come into your life like great chunks of rock on a conveyor belt. Wisdom comes privately from God as a byproduct…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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Much like great products, great content will only find the best people to love it if it's leveraged well.
— Paul Shannon
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I am often on guard over the Russians. In the darkness one sees their forms move like stick storks, like great birds. They come close…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.
— Erik Larson
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You want to play house, you got to have a job. You want to play very nice house, very sweet house, then you got to…
— Richard Yates
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Great brands are like great stories. And every story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. And our job is to make sure that…
— Kevin Plank
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Elegance? It may seem odd to non-scientists, but there is an aesthetic in software as there is in every other area of intellectual endeavour. Truly…
— John Naughton
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We were also performing. We'd give them a list of, like, 'Here's how we want to be introduced' They'd be like, 'Great' And then 5…
— Amy Poehler
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Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.
— Truman Capote
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I hear the wind blowing across the desert and I see the moons of a winter night rising like great ships in the void. To…
— Frank Herbert
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Great projects, like great careers and relationships that last, are gardens. They are tended, they shift, they grow. They endure over time, gaining a personality…
— Seth Godin
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For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And…
— Hermann Hesse
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My idea of the perfect exercise class is this: The teacher gives us all a hug and goes, 'You did it! You showed up! Let’s…
— Amy Poehler
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