Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sarah MacLean

The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs.

Agatha Christie

That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

Adam Smith

Upstart greatness is everywhere less respected than ancient greatness.

Adam Smith

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt, of which vice and folly are the only proper objects, is most often unjustly bestowed upon poverty and weakness, has been the complaint of moralists in all ages.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

A prophet's true greatness is his ability to hold God and man in a single thought.

Willie Randolph

You know he's going to do something special, ... but because we haven't won a lot of his games, we kind of lose that. I've said it about Roger Clemens: When you have a great pitcher like that, it's not always automatic.

Michael Sata

When I joined politics, I was arrested in Luanshya... In 1960, I was with great people like Justine Chimba, Mazimba from Ndola and Dingiswayo Banda.

Richard Hamilton

We got the win. They played great and we just kind of traded baskets with them until the end.

You are going to be a great artist.

You are embarking on the greatest marathon of your career,

With the greatest respect for your Honor, that isn't enough time for us.

Dick Vitale

We're really thrilled about it because we got lots of great story lines.

Rosecrans Baldwin

My confession: I listen to great music very badly.

Mario Batali

I can teach a chimp how to make linguini and clams. I can't teach a chimp to dream about it and think about how great it is.

We know all this stuff, let's just go do it. Wall Street was highly skeptical at first, but they've done a great job.

Ben Crenshaw

The reason the Road Hole is the greatest par 4 in the world is because it's a par 5!

Herodotus

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

To see how many Italians are going out of Italy, the sort of exodus, a great generation leaving my country, I think is the worst nightmare for me as prime minister but also for the country, of course.

Shawn Amos

Social media is social. We're looking to touch one heart at a time. With one great story at a time.

Cyndi Lauper

There have been great things that happened to me.

David Benioff

‎I was cursed with the pessimism of both the Russians and the Jews two of the gloomiest tribes in the world. Still if there wasn't greatness in me maybe I had the talent to recognize it in others even in the most irritating others.

Darrell Issa

Remember, America's greatness is based on creating wealth like the rest of the world has never known, and then, making sure it's shared throughout a middle class and even the underprivileged.

Angelina Jolie

The great thing about having a bunch of kids is they just remind you that you're the person who takes them to go poop!

Wayne Gretzky

We need to get guys re-energized and refocused. This should be the greatest week of their lives ... they should be having fun.

Harmon Killebrew

I speak very highly of Jim Thome. Not only is he a great player, but he's a great individual.

Alan Alda

It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.

Steve Alford

I got to work for some great administrators at great institutions, and I had an opportunity to coach great players. Iowa is no different.

Owain Yeoman

I love Wales, and Cardiff is great, but if I could just have the weather we have in California, it would be perfect.

Brian Gionta

We knew we had a great team. It was a matter of being consistent. We're not letting down. We're staying focused.

Bill Nighy

I've never been a great enthusiast about how I look and I am very... when I was young I had a real anti-talent for inventing myself as unappealing - craven and unremarkable.

Cleopatra

Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.

Dan Gable

Greatness in the mat is achieved through training that make you push to survive.

Barbara Hambly

I wrote 'Time of the Dark' in 1978 and 'The Silent Tower' in 1984, so the thing that sticks out for me is how totally technology has changed. I suppose that's the great peril for real-world crossovers.