Top 100 Great One Quotes
#1. It's not that I haven't had a good life. It's that I hadn't allowed myself to live a great one.
- from the essay Dear Someone, Amazed.
Joanne Crisner Alcayaga
#2. One is not a great one because one defeats or harms other living beings. One is so called because one refrains from defeating or harming other living beings.
Gautama Buddha
#3. My favorite is doing the television show, as a variety show, every week. If the show wasn't that great one week, we could always come back and apologize, you know?
Carol Burnett
#4. Yes. It is true. I, Michael Scott, am signing up with an online dating service. Thousands of people have done it, and I am going to do it. I need a username, and I have a great one. 'Little Kid Lover.' That way people will know exactly where my priorities are at.
Michael Scott
#5. I don't need a man to be happy. I had a great one , that was good enough. I don't expect to find another one like him, and why settle for anything less? I'm going ot be perfectly content alone.
Marya
Danielle Steel
#6. Socrates was a wise man. Surveying the goods on a market stall, the great one was said to have remarked, What a lot of things a man doesn't need!
Ruth Downie
#7. Are you . . . are you the athask? The great one?" "Maybe," said Mogget. "I can't remember." "Mogget,
Garth Nix
#9. Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I never finished it, I never finished any of them, I never finished anything, everything always went on for ever. (Pause.)
Samuel Beckett
#10. What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#11. A great idea should always be left to steep like loose tea leaves in a teapot for a while to make sure that the tea will be strong enough and that the idea truly is a great one.
Phoebe Stone
#12. Being a good writer meant he could make a living and do as he chose. Being a great one would bring responsibilities and expectations he had no desire to face.
Nora Roberts
#13. Yes, O Great One, I shall do as you command. Then when we come back empty-pawed, you'll admit I was right.
- Squirrelflight to Brambleclaw
Erin Hunter
#14. What a shame to be so afraid of failure that you stop living. My wife has a great one-liner about failure: "Never consider yourself a failure-you can always serve as a bad example." She is right. Failure can be a better teacher than success.
Bernie Siegel
#15. To be great, one does not have to be mad, but definitely it helps.
Percy Cerutty
#16. The passion to produce is very great. One man, who has not yet been assigned his little garden plot, is hopefully watering a jimson weed simply to have something of his own growing.
John Steinbeck
#17. If we only have great companies, we will merely have a prosperous society, not a great one. Economic growth and power are the means, not the definition, of a great nation.
James C. Collins
#18. That's why those tapes we made are going to be so great one day, because they'll tell stories that time has swallowed up or distorted or whatever.
John Green
#19. Empathy is probably the single most important difference between a good hacker and a great one.
Paul Graham
#20. And meanwhile death was as terrible in a small man as in a great one:
Nikolai Gogol
#22. Farewell, my great one, my own, farewell, my pride, farewell, my swift, deep, dear river, how I loved your daylong splashing, how I loved to plunge into your cold waves.
Boris Pasternak
#23. Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#24. If you're going to be a footballer, be a great one.If you're going to have a dream, dream big.
Alex Ferguson
#25. To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#26. Almost all politicians are able to have a great one-on-one meeting. But I'm not interested in the candidate who can have a great meeting. I'm interested in the person who can make the right decisions.
Kenneth C. Griffin
#28. The day we dispose of the idea of disposability will be a great one for the planet.
Alex Shoumatoff
#29. If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.
Glenn Frey
#30. It's good that everyone has an opportunity to take pictures, the chance to be a photographer. Some are good, too. But the bad thing is that it's very, very difficult to take a great picture. Everyone can take a good picture - even a child - but it's hard to make a great one.
Mary Ellen Mark
#31. Everyone thinks they can cure stress by adding to their schedule, like going to yoga. Oh, great - one more thing to feel guilty about when you can't do it.
Evangeline Lilly
#32. He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One
Said Nursi
#33. I love 'Paranormal Activity' and 'The Exorcist.' 'The Shining' is a great one too, but there's not a lot that scares me. Maybe it's because I know the other side of it, and I know how movies are made, but it takes a lot for me to get freaked out.
Lucy Hale
#35. Tragedy and comedy are simply questions of value; a little misfit in life makes us laugh; a great one is tragedy and cause for expression of grief.
Elbert Hubbard
#36. Great is a great one whose great ones are great
John Stein
#37. Through the feigned fury of divine emotion, the wife of the great one will be badly wronged. Judges, wishing to condemn such a doctrine, the victim will be sacrificed to the ignorant people.
Nostradamus
#38. People are clever, but almost no one ever devises an optimal quip precisely at the needed moment. Therefore, virtually all great one-liners are later inventions - words that people wished they had spouted, but failed to manufacture at the truly opportune instant.
Stephen Jay Gould
#39. You are always a comedian by default. You are this way because you've been forced to be this way, but it is better to be the hero. So if you can be a persona, the great one of my lifetime of course was and is Marlon Brando.
Woody Allen
#40. Always she thought of him as climbing some mountain in his mind, like that great one to the west on which his eyes would dwell so often and from which he seemed to derive something that was even more than strength.
Elizabeth Yates
#41. You have to be as fully prepared for the dull game as you are for the great game, or else you won't be prepared for the great one.
Red Barber
#42. Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.
Michael Arndt
#43. Hey, it's your birthday ?. Sit back, relax and enjoy it ? you've earned it! Have a Great One.
Margaret Jones
#44. I'm a good liar. A great one. And to be a great liar you have to live your lies, to believe them, to the point that when you tell them to yourself enough times, even what's right before your eyes will bend itself to the falsehood.
Mark Lawrence
#45. I love a good remix! Moto Blanco did a great one of 'I Hope'.
Rebecca Ferguson
#47. A good thief goes unseen. A truly great one merely goes unnoticed. She
Joe Abercrombie
#48. Mine is a gruesome job, but for a scientist with a love for the mechanics of the human body, a great one.
Judy Melinek
#49. Listening can make the difference between a mediocre organization and a great one.
Lee Iacocca
#50. Work to realize the possibility of this new day and to make it a truly great one.
Kirk Weisler
#52. Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.
George Bernard Shaw
#55. Prior to 'The Shield,' basic cable was just a wasteland of reruns and NASCAR. When we came along, I think there was a collective, 'Hey, if they can do that, why can't we?' from the basic-cable networks of the world. We ended up being the cornerstone for a network, and a great one.
Michael Chiklis
#56. Not just a timely movie, a great one ... Timbuktu feels at once timely and permanent, immediate and essential.
A.O. Scott
#58. When you take off that sweater, your jersey, after today's game, you will be the last player in the NHL to ever wear 99. You have always been and you will always be 'The Great One,' and there will never be another.
Gary Bettman
#59. Aunt Diana shoved the baby at the Great One.
Judy Blume
#60. I'm not a great one for looking back.
Ian Botham
#61. Sir Thomas More: Why not be a teacher? You'd be a fine teacher; perhaps a great one.
Richard Rich: If I was, who would know it?
Sir Thomas More: You; your pupils; your friends; God. Not a bad public, that.
Robert Bolt
#62. Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
Eugene Ionesco
#63. There are very few real teachers. Teaching is not a job; it is a vocation. To be a great one many qualities must be combined: love of truth, knowledge, reverence, loving concern for one's students, clarity and patience.
Alice Von Hildebrand
#64. I like the Rolling Stones for karaoke. 'Sympathy For The Devil' is a great one.
Hugh Jackman
#65. The office of President is a great one; to every true American it seems the greatest on earth. And to me, as I was engaged in weaving a background of music for the pageantry of it, there came a deeper realization of the effect of that office on the man.
John Philip Sousa
#67. When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain.
Bertolt Brecht
#68. There is pressure when you have a very big book like 'Shadow Divers' to follow up with something big. But you can't let that pressure determine what you do. You just look for the best stories, and when you find a great one, you tell it.
Robert Kurson
#69. Great. Just great. One glimpse of his body and I have a full-blown crush.
I honestly thought I was a bit deeper than that.
Sophie Kinsella
#70. the devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one.
C.S. Lewis
#71. However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.
Mary MacLane
#72. Indianapolis versus Denver would not be a great one gastronomically.
Mario Batali
#73. You want an idea about what you can say. I know it sounds like a bad idea but here's specifically why its actually a great one. You want to sound crazy but you want to ask to be right.
Sam Altman
#74. Honestly, there have been some pretty good Marvel games, but I don't think there's ever been a great one.
Warren Spector
#75. This party spirit has so ill an effect on our morals, it has likewise a very great one upon our judgments.
Joseph Addison
#76. Our task is a great one, not just because of how far we have fallen. Our task is a great one because of the challenges facing the people we seek to serve.
Johann Lamont
#77. A good SciFi Author shows you an alien world; a great one takes you there.
Ray Jay Perreault
#78. Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness
that means cynically and with innocence.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#79. No, I don't. I find them very superficial. Calculated. He's a good artist, but I think he could be a great one, if he could use more instinct and less technique. He's a very good draftsman.
Louise Penny
#80. The difference between a bland tomato and great one is immense, much like the difference between a standard, sliced white bread and a crusty, aromatic sourdough.
Yotam Ottolenghi
#81. I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.
Bear Grylls
#82. They say confront the difficult while it is easy, accomplish the great one step at a time. They say let things come and let things go and live without possession and live without expectation.
James Frey
#83. Back then: to be regarded as well-known, one had to be great. Today: to be regarded as great, one has to be well-known.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#84. I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely.
John Lennon
#85. 'Tis better to be known as a good man than a great one, for greatness is an assessment of mortals; goodness a gift of God.
Spark Matsunaga
#86. Winning the Super Bowl was obviously a great one, but the joy I felt of going to the Super Bowl, it was what I felt about the Pittsburgh Steelers and where we came from, the history of us to that point.
Joe Greene
#87. The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country.
Winston Churchill
#88. Making love to robots will probably be great one day. It's just not a viable option right now.
John Vanderslice
#89. You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.
Steve Harvey
#90. Well then, shall we act like other men? Shall there be no distinction between ourselves and the world?" Yes, a very great one; let men find that we are unlike the common herd, if they look closely.
Seneca.
#91. To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.
Elaine Dundy
#92. A quiet worker but a very productive one and a great one for the state of Georgia.
Roy Barnes
#93. 'Oh! Darling' was a great one of Paul's that he didn't sing too well. I always thought I could have done it better-it was more my style than his. He wrote it, so what the hell, he's going to sing it.
John Lennon
#94. However great an intellectual may be, however great one may be as a scholar or a man of learning, one has also to acquire humanness. Without humanness, scholarship and intellectual eminence are of no value.
Sathya Sai Baba
#95. There is a thought in your mind right now. The longer you hold on to it, the more you dwell upon it, the more life you give to that thought. Give it enough life, and it will become real. So make sure the thought is indeed a great one.
Ralph Marston
#96. Each day is a new opportunity. I chose to make this day a great one.
Louise L. Hay
#97. I'm friends with a lot of actresses, but my 'SNL' friends are my closest. The experience of working there is something of a battleground, a great one, but complicated. I think there's a deep connection for having survived that workplace.
Ana Gasteyer
#98. One gift I think is a great one is a gift for self-entertainment.
Marty Rubin
#100. Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.
Mickey Mantle
