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Greats Quotes (page 262)

Winston Churchill quote: "Good and great are seldom in the same man."
Good and great are seldom in the same man. Winston Churchill
I do strongly feel that among the greatest pieces of luck for high achievement is ordeal. Certain great artists can make out without it, Titian and others, but mostly you need ordeal. My idea is this: the artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At that point, he's in business: Beethoven's deafness, Goya's deafness, Milton's blindness, that kind of thing. John Berryman
Whoever has received knowledgeand eloquence in speech from Godshould not be silent or secretivebut demonstrate it willingly. When a great good is widely heard of, then, and only then, does it bloom, and when that good is praised by man, it has spread its blossoms. Marie de France
Austin and I proceeded to knock back a couple of Ketel One and grapefruit juices, which happened to be my drink of the moment. Someone told me that grapefruit was a great detoxifier and I decided I wanted to start cleaning out my liver WHILE I was having a cocktail. Chelsea Handler
I had not intended to love him; the reader knows I had wrought hard to extirpate from my soul the germs of love there detected; and now, at the first renewed view of him, they spontaneously revived, great and strong! He made me love him without looking at me. Charlotte Bronte
Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it. Leonardo da Vinci
Unnumbered suppliants crowd Preferment's gate. Athirst for wealth, and burning to be great; Delusive Fortune hears th' incessant call, They mount, they shine, evaporate, and fall. Samuel Johnson
God in his unending greatness and glory and man in his unending littleness, prepared for the worst but rarely for the best, prepared for the possible but rarely for the impossible. Frederick Buechner
Elizabeth Gilbert quote: "Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not..."
Looking for Truth is not some kind of spazzy free-for-all, not even during this, the great age of the spazzy free-for-all. Elizabeth Gilbert
Your light is seen, your heart is known, your soul is cherished by more people than you might imagine. If you knew how many others have been touched in wonderful ways by you, you would be astonished. If you knew how many people feel so much for you, you would be shocked. You are far more wonderful than you think you are. Rest with that. Rest easy with that. Breathe again. You are doing fine. More than fine. Better than fine. You’re doin’ great. So relax. And love yourself today. Neale Donald Walsch
Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls. Victor Hugo
It is not only by one's impulses that one achieves greatness, but also by patiently filing away the steel wall that separates what one feels from what one is capable of doing. Vincent Van Gogh
But beauty is not the only thing that makes a woman attractive; indeed, great beauty is often somewhat chilling: you admire, but are not moved. W. Somerset Maugham
At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new. William Makepeace Thackeray
Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun... Frank Moore Colby

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