Greatness Quotes - Page 61

Jazz music celebrates life! Human life; the range of it, the absurdity of it, the ignorance of it, the greatness of it, the intelligence of it, the sexuality of it, the profundity of it. And it deals with it. In all of its... It deals with it!

I write the script; nobody sees it, not the people that put the money in the picture. I cast who I want, and make the film. That's why I've always felt the only thing standing between me and greatness, is me. There's no excuse for me not to be great except that I'm not.

The Constitution was not made to fit us like a straitjacket. In its elasticity lies its chief greatness.

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

America is not a mere body of traders; it is a body of free men. Our greatness is built upon our freedom - is moral, not material. We have a great ardor for gain; but we have a deep passion for the rights of man.

Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?

O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart.

Poor wretches that depend On greatness' favor, dream as I have done; Wake, and find nothing.

Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too.

Greatness knows itself.

Putin wants to reestablish Russian greatness, not as the Cold War, but in 19th century empire terms.

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.

...greatness sympathises with greatness, and littleness shrinks into itself.

To display the greatest powers, unless they are applied to great purposes, makes nothing for the character of greatness.

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

Real greatness has nothing to do with a man’s sphere. It does not lie in the magnitude of his outward agency, in the extent of the effects which he produces. The greatest men may do comparatively little.

Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

Great offices will have great talents.

Adversity is the nurse of greatness which roughly rocks her patients back to health.

A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.

you are so great, and I am so small, I hardly can think of you, World, at all

The British and American literary worlds operate in an odd kind of symbiosis: our critics think our contemporary novelists are not the stuff of greatness whereas certain contemporary Americans indubitably are. Their critics often advance the exact opposite: British fiction is cool, American naff.

Guilt, though it may attain temporal splendor, can never confer real happiness; the evil consequences of our crimes long survive their commission, and, like the ghosts of the murdered, forever haunt the steps of the malefactor; while the paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

The paths of virtue, though seldom those of worldly greatness, are always those of pleasantness and peace.

I'm doing this because I want to do it better.