#great

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to. ↗

— Larry Elder

#america #call #capitalism #consequences #failure

But what is of great importance to me is observation of the movement of colors. ↗

— Robert Delaunay

#great #importance #me #movement #observation

I want to drown in all the ink used to write positive things about my clone and how great he is. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#clones #funny #greatness #humor #ink

It's a great big step for me to open my heart up even a little bit. ↗

— John Denver

#bit #even #great #heart #little

It would be great to make a movie that had the style of a great '30's film. ↗

— Laura Dern

#great #had #make #movie #style

the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish. ↗

— Aubrey F.G. Bell

#cervantes #don-quixote #great-books #man-of-la-mancha #modern-library

By the by, if the English race had done nothing else, yet if they left the world the notion of a gentleman, they would have done a great service to mankind. ↗

— Gerard Manley Hopkins

#else #english #gentleman #great #great service

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#actual #brought #curious #experience #facts

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other. ↗

— Mark Hopkins

#activity #affection #any #appropriate #blessedness

Work hard, earn a great living, get whatever you want out of life, have all the stuff you want. But there should be a ceiling on it-enough is enough! ↗

— Sandy Duncan

#earn #enough #enough is enough #get #great