#great

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. ↗

— Vincent Voiture

#deceiver #fortune #give #great #seems

We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention. ↗

— Alexander Volkov

#always #around #attention #dead #everything

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us. ↗

— Voltaire

#greater #harm #i #know #life

The ancient Romans built their greatest masterpieces of architecture, their amphitheaters, for wild beasts to fight in. ↗

— Voltaire

#architecture #beasts #built #fight #greatest

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it. ↗

— Voltaire

#because #brought #cannot #colors #contrary

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#canvas #great #paint #picture #small

When a person encounters his own statue and takes a hammer to it, performance art adds depth to greatness. ↗

— Bauvard

#funny #greatness #humor #art

Sundance is just a great place for your work to be seen. Not much more to say about it than that. ↗

— David Wain

#great #just #more #much #place

We all know that, unfortunately, the media does not always portray the good things that are happening in Iraq and Afghanistan, and this will be a great opportunity for us to glean some information from the Iraqi women who are here for us to also take back to our constituents. ↗

— Ginny B. Waite

#also #always #back #constituents #does

One of the great responsibilities that I have is to manage my assets wisely, so that they create value. ↗

— Alice Walton

#create #great #i #manage #responsibilities