Great Deal Quotes

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal; the good one really does.
William Blake

Good, Great, Bad

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.
Pablo Casals

Great, Courage, Person

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.
Saul Bellow

Great, Ignorance, Deep

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith

Great, Men, Courage

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
George Eliot

Great, Whatever, Ourselves

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.
Richard Dawkins

Beauty, Great, Human

People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.
Donald Trump

Time, Great, Might

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.
Chuck Palahniuk

Money, Great, Fight

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.
George Eliot

Great, Country, Within

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
Julius Caesar

Great, Power, War

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
Princess Diana

Great, Happy, Forgive

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.
Adam Ant

Health, Great, Attention

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
R. D. Laing

Life, Great, Pain

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.
Samuel Johnson

Good, Great, Once

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

Great, Poetry, Find

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
Mason Cooley

Great, Wisdom, Deal

I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.
E. O. Wilson

Good, Great, Character

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
William Penn

Great, Wisdom, Live

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.
Hugh Leonard

Life, Change, Time

Some mystery should be left in the revelation of character in a play, just as a great deal of mystery is always left in the revelation of character in life, even in one's own character to himself.
Tennessee Williams

Life, Great, Character

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
Willa Cather

Great, Live, Dream

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras

Great, Silence, Words

I also derive a great deal of pleasure from horses and dogs... the ocean... and love.
William Shatner

Love, Great, Ocean

I think it's wonderful when a love story begins with a great deal of romance and affection, passion and excitement, that's how it should be. But I don't necessarily know that it's the wisest thing in the world to expect that it ends there, or that it should, 30 years down the road, still look as it did on the night of your first kiss.
Elizabeth Gilbert

Love, Great, Passion

I've learned a great deal about a certain type of filmmaking. But I have ambitions toward another type of filmmaking that I haven't been allowed to engage in yet.
Shia LaBeouf

Great, Learned, Another

There is a great deal of human nature in man.
Charles Kingsley

Nature, Great, Human

I spend a great deal of time with the President. We have a very close, personal, loyal relationship. I'm not, as they say, a potted plant in these meetings.
Dan Quayle

Time, Great, Personal

Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Jean de la Bruyere

Great, Giving, Less

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
Edith Wharton

Money, Great, Deal

I have thought about it a great deal, and the more I think, the more certain I am that obedience is the gateway through which knowledge, yes, and love, too, enter the mind of the child.
Anne Sullivan

Love, Great, Knowledge

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