Etiqueta: great

“The journey from teaching about love to allowing myself to be loved proved much longer than I realised.”

“People with handicaps teach me that being is more important than doing, the heart is more important than the mind, and caring together is better than caring alone.”

“I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.”

“Cinema is an art form, a result of dedication of a number of people.”

“God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly.”

“Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.”

“I greatly fear some of America's greatest and most dangerous enemies are such as think themselves her best friends.”

“In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.”

“I took up arms for the freedom of my color. It is our own - we will defend it or perish.”

“Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.”

“Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.”

“All great achievements require time.”

“Our pets rely on us entirely for their nutrition. So if you're making your own judgments, that could lead to a mistake. At the same time, we have more control over our pet's diet than we do with our children or with ourselves, so your vet can tell you what is appropriate for your dog and you can assign them that.”

“Part of me believes that Beyonce and Jay-Z were naive when they chose to celebrate their five-year wedding anniversary in Cuba. However, as the daughter of a former political prisoner in Cuba, I would argue that they should have known better than to travel to the island and support its repressive regime.”

“I thought my family was really funny. Everybody in my family was funny. My mom and dad both have great senses of humor and really saw the funny in stuff, so I think that's probably where it came from. I always try to see the funny in things.”

“Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn't been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.”

“And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business.”

“The biggest obstacle to wealth is fear. People are afraid to think big, but if you think small, you'll only achieve small things.”

“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.”

“We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.”

“It would have been difficult to design a path out of communism worse than the one that has been followed.”