Great - Quotes
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
I believe in no God, no invisible man in the sky. But there is something more powerful than each of us, a combination of our efforts, a Great Chain of industry that unites us. But it is only when we struggle in our own interest that the chain pulls society in the right direction. The chain is too powerful and too mysterious for any government to guide. Any man who tells you different either has his hand in your pocket, or a pistol to your neck.
We can always hate that which we loved, and with a fire as great as our love once was.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
A heart overwhelmed with one great grief is insensible to minor emotions.
Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.
What did thinking ever do for me, to what great place did thinking ever bring me? I think and think and think. I`ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it.
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.
No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.
Music is the great uniter. An incredible force. Something that people who differ on everything and anything else can have in common.
The world is as delicate and as complicated as a spider`s web, and like a spider`s web, if you touch one thread, you send shudders running through all the other threads that make up the web. But we`re not just touching the web, we`re tearing great holes in it.