#great

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society. ↗

— Michael Burgess

#character #every #great #great need #lead

So we beat on, boats against the current, bourne back ceaselessly into the past. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#quotes-i-love #love

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#go #great #ill #little #little minds

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#great-things #men

We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books. ↗

— Mike Stoller

#assumed #because #been #berlin #books

Atticus "three kinds of cat shit, Oberon." Oberon "and an arrogant family of squirrels. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#batman-inuendos #great-swearing #family

Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history. ↗

— Ralph Abernathy

#change #christians #greatest #history #jesus

Early on I set out to write the next Great American Novel, and then later on I set out the silverware and enjoyed my dinner in silence. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#dinner #eat #food #great-american-novel #silence

We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action. ↗

— Sarojini Naidu

#courage #deeper #earnestness #greater #motive

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead," he suggested. "After that my own rule is to let everything alone. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#friendship