Quotes On Becoming A Great Person

#1. It's not about finding great people, it's about becoming a great person

Mark Yarnell

#2. One would like to stroke and caress human beings, but one dares not do so, because they bite.

Vladimir Lenin

#3. Despite all the efforts of art dealers, the number of Rembrandts existing at a given time is limited; yet such paintings are commonly disposed of by auction.

Ronald Coase

#4. When Mary arrived, I felt a mixture of emotions, including panic and overwhelming love. I felt a great sense of responsibility, not just towards my child but also towards her father. There have been many influences on my life, but that thing of finally becoming a family person was the greatest.

Diana Quick

#5. The nations of Europe constitute a federative league, a commonwealth of nations which, though it has no central head, is so intimate and elaborate as to subject the action, and sometimes even the internal affairs, of each to surveillance and intervention on the part of all the others.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

#6. You can't stand up for Canada with a banana for a backbone.

John Diefenbaker

#7. I arrived on earth in 1928. Born into a milieu of painters, I acquired my taste for painting with my mother's milk.

Yves Klein

#8. Red is the great clarifier - bright and revealing. I can't imagine becoming bored with red - it would be like becoming bored with the person you love.

Diana Vreeland

#9. Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a great success, and went on at once to say, 'There she goes again. What's the matter with her?

C.S. Lewis

#10. When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

George Eliot

#11. God, I might actually choke on these words. I trust you. And I wanna check this out, but I'm not stupid enough to go check it out myself, and I think I might... need you." - David
"E-mail her. Make an appointment. And I'll... I'll go with you." - Harper

Rachel Hawkins

#12. In the name of the Fire,
The Flame
And the Light;
Praise the pure presence of fire
That burns from within
Without thought of time.

John O'Donohue

#13. Conservatives, they're like the Republicans to me. They don't do much. They have this whole hierarchy and boys' club thing going on. That doesn't help the regular person.

Estelle Fanta Swaray

#14. Do me the very great honor of becoming ... the person who'll cook me lovely things to eat, who'll cheer me up when I'm miserable, who'll tell me no and mean it ...

Barbara Elsborg