#great

The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#greatest #mercy

I don't care what they say about me when I'm through with sports. I don't want to be known as anything else in life but a great father. ↗

— Deion Sanders

#anything #care #else #father #great

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something. ↗

— Bobby Sands

#great #old #otherwise #own #part

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own. ↗

— Julian Schnabel

#blaming #devastating #emptiness #excuse #facing

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity. ↗

— Arthur Schopenhauer

#age #air #before #begin #constantly

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish. ↗

— Erwin Schrodinger

#egoism #forming #greatly #perish #restricting

I don't know what kind of great I'm bound to be," Dove considered his prospects calmly, "all I know for certain is I'm born a world-shaker. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#identity #prospects-on-life #life

You may be right that people say: 'You know what, we had Obama. He was inexperienced. The guy had great rhetoric, sounded good, looked good, but has turned out to be an utter disaster. I want someone where I have confidence and credibility that they're up to the job and that I can trust what they tell me.' ↗

— Karl Rove

#credibility #disaster #good #great #guy

However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#cannot #great #however #learned #man

Life is rough for a lot of people. Some people live in greater material circumstances than others, but life is rough for everybody. ↗

— Karl Rove

#everybody #greater #life #live #lot