#great

All treaties between great states cease to be binding when they come in conflict with the struggle for existence. ↗

— Otto von Bismarck

#binding #cease #come #conflict #existence

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#beauty #character #conduct #contributes #courage

I am a great lover of art, in many forms: paintings, objets, textiles. I don't have the talent for painting, but I have a very good sense of colour, a love of visual beauty. ↗

— Jacqueline Bisset

#art #beauty #colour #forms #good

It has happened to me to meet many of the men of my day whom the world agreed to call great. ↗

— Rebecca Harding Davis

#call #day #great #happened #many

No disrespect to Kyle Orton, who's been solid and stable for both the Broncos and the Bears, but I think the upside for Tim Tebow is greater right now. ↗

— Terrell Davis

#been #both #disrespect #greater #i

It's like any great medicine that works. It tastes absolutely lousy going down, but ultimately helps and heals you. And that's what Juilliard was. Juilliard is classical training. They don't really want to focus on what you do well - that's what got you into the school. They're training you to do other stuff well, which may not come easily to you. ↗

— Viola Davis

#any #classical #classical training #come #down

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#being #beings #complication #deal #emphasis

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark. ↗

— Mario Batali

#conversations #door #ever #expressions #family

The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's still on the menu, and it's still as good as what you remember. ↗

— Mario Batali

#consistently #dish #good #great #hardest

There are pockets of great food in Spain, but there are also pockets of very mediocre food in Spain, and the same in Morocco and the same in Croatia and the same in Germany and the same in Austria. ↗

— Mario Batali

#austria #croatia #food #germany #great