Quotes About Greatnesstness

#1. While lying in traction in the hospital the next day, I informed Jerry that he could promptly take his cake, hideous football photo and smelly socks and fuck off out of my apartment.

Kate Langdon

#2. Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

Douglas MacArthur

#3. Somewhere in the world there is a defeat for everyone. Some are destroyed by defeat, and some made small and mean by victory. Greatness lives in one who triumphs equally over defeat and victory.

John Steinbeck

#4. I lowered myself into an armchair. I was enveloped in a cloud of dust. All that remained of my life was in my lap. I sat for a time thus, as still as the mute objects that surrounded me. How little it all meant, in the end.

Sandra Gulland

#5. There are only two moments when everything is possible in this life," said Petrus, "when one drinks, and when one makes up stories.

Muriel Barbery

#6. A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#7. I had nothing to do in the hall, so I went into the room.

F Scott Fitzgerald