We have a great life here in Alaska,
and we're never going back to America again!
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Hey, Marge. Isn't it great being married
to someone who's recklessly impulsive?
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
Just because I don't care,
doesn't mean I don't understand.
- Matt Groening's TV series The Simpsons.
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner 
It's not as great a day for the bride as she thinks.
She's not marrying the best man.
- Anonymous
You ask me if I keep a notebook
to record my great ideas.
I've only ever had one.
- Albert Einstein
The time-traveling is just too dangerous.
Better that I devote myself to study
the other great mystery of the universe - women!
- the movie Back to the Future II
One great thing about getting old is that
you can get out of all sorts of social obligations
just by saying you're too tired.
- George Carlin
I am prepared to meet my Maker.
Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal
of meeting me is another matter.
- Winston Churchill
New York City is a great monument
to the power of money and greed...
a race for rent.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
People who think they know everything
are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- Isaac Asimov
Confused Memories of Childhood:
Hate to my father, cruel hate,
confused with love - a mix not great.
The man I love - the man I hate;
the man I want to emulate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
- Lewis Carroll
I love to shop after a bad relationship.
I don't know. I buy a new outfit
and it makes me feel better. It just does.
Sometimes I see a really great outfit,
I'll break up with someone on purpose.
- Rita Rudner
As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
- John Lennon
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality
by contact with this great novel land of yours
which sticks up out of the Atlantic.
- Winston Churchill
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives
as much as if we had never married at all.
- Lord Byron
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one can have a higher opinion of you than I have,
and I think you're a slimy, contemptible sewer rat!
- the movie The Great Mouse Detective
I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Having a personal opinion is great.
Believing that one's personal opinion is absolute truth
leads to most of the world's troubles.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness
of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.
- Albert Einstein
In great contests, each party claims to act
in accordance with the will of God.
Both may be, and one must be wrong.
- Abraham Lincoln
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
I have a great deal of company in the house,
especially in the morning when nobody calls.
- Henry David Thoreau
Regrets and resentments cause great suffering but fix nothing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
I long to accomplish a great and noble task,
but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks
as if they were great and noble.
- Helen Keller
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell
Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the paint you can on it.
- Danny Kaye
Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises -
often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways;
sometimes newness just knocks on our door;
welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.
- John D. Rockefeller
To be one, to be united is a great thing.
But to respect the right to be different is maybe even greater.
- Bono
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life in abundance comes only through great love.
- Elbert Hubbard
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers,
who can cut through argument, debate, and doubt
to offer a solution everybody can understand.
- Colin Powell
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
Before we acquire great power
we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most people say that is it is the intellect
which makes a great scientist.
They are wrong: it is character.
- Albert Einstein
There is a great future in front of you,
you can leave your past behind.
- Joel Osteen
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a great confidence in a friend
to tell him your faults;
greater to tell him his.
- Benjamin Franklin
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
The great defense against the air menace
is to attack the enemy's aircraft
as near as possible to their point of departure.
- Winston Churchill
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
Nurture your mind with great thoughts,
for you will never go any higher than you think.
- Benjamin Disraeli
He who believes is strong; he who doubts is weak.
Strong convictions precede great actions.
- Louisa May Alcott
A great democracy does not make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.
- William J. Clinton
If a warrior is to succeed at anything,
the success must come gently,
with a great deal of effort but with no stress or obsession.
- Carlos Castaneda
Man becomes great exactly in the degree
in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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