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Great Deal Quotes (page 7)

I've had a great deal of experience with adolescents over the centuries, and I've discovered that as a group these awkward half children take themselves far too seriously. Moreover, appearance is everything for the adolescent. I suppose it's a form of play-acting. The adolescent knows that the child is lurking under the surface, but he'd sooner die than let it out, and I was no different. I was so intent on being "grown-up" that I simply couldn't relax and enjoy life. Most people go through... David Eddings
Gandalf thought of most things; and though he could not do everything, he could do a great deal for friends in a tight corner. J. R. R. Tolkien
Violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children: organized religion ought to have a great deal on its conscience. Christopher Hitchens
Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked. Frances Hodgson Burnett
There is something about very cold weather that gives one an enormous appetite. Most of us find ourselves beginning to crave rich steaming stews and hot apple pies and all kinds of delicious warming dishes; and because we are all a great deal luckier than we realize, we usually get what we want—or near enough. Roald Dahl
David Hume quote: "A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal..."
A little philosophy makes a man an Atheist: a great deal converts him to religion David Hume
Hospitals should be arranged in such a way as to make being sick an interesting experience. One learns a great deal sometimes from being sick. Alan Watts
You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. If a man carries many such memories with him into life, he is safe to the end of his days, and if one has only one good memory left in one's heart, even that may sometime be the... Fyodor Dostoevsky
Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance. Oscar Wilde
I think I have always liked my fellow men. Liking is a great deal safer than love. It doesn't demand victims. Who is your victim, Querry? Graham Greene
To be sure, the Bishop was a little theatrical in his humility, as he had been in his grandeur; but that was his way, Auclair reflected, and, after all, nobody can help his way. If a man admits his mistakes, that is a great deal... Willa Cather
The only way to not think about money is to have a great deal of it."You might as well say that the only way not to think about air is to have enough to breathe. Edith Wharton
Lewis Carroll quote: "If everybody minded their own business, the world would go..."
If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does. Lewis Carroll
Henry David Thoreau quote: "God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he..."
God is alone,-but the devil, he is far from being alone; he sees a great deal of company; he is legion. Henry David Thoreau
Those who are good with their noses must come in the front with us lions to smell out where the battle is. Look lively and sort yourselves"And with a great deal of bustle and cheering they did. The most pleased of the lot was the other lion who kept running about everywhere pretending to be very busy but really in order to say to everyone he met, "Did you hear what he said? Us Lions. That means him and me. Us Lions. That's what I like about Aslan. No side, no stand-off-ishness. Us Lions. That... C. S. Lewis

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