Great Deal Quotes

Iraq is a long way from the U.S., but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.
Madeleine Albright

Great, Greatest, Long

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself.
Julie Andrews

Family, Great, History

We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
M. Scott Peck

Health, Great, Deal

I love the Roth IRA. Tax-free income in retirement is a truly great deal.
Suze Orman

Love, Great, Deal

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras

Great, Words, Few

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Time, Great, Deal

I'm not intensely private - I talk a great deal about my life and my work - I just don't play the game to excess.
Annie Lennox

Life, Work, Great

Every man is as heaven made him, and sometimes a great deal worse.
Miguel de Cervantes

Great, Him, Made

I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.
Doris Lessing

Life, Work, Great

My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.
Doris Lessing

Great, Mother, Woman

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
Alfred North Whitehead

Great, Matter, Meaning

A police force, wherever they are, is made up of amazing people, and I respect them a great deal.
Nancy McKeon

Great, Respect, Amazing

Mr. Obama still has time to reverse course. A great deal depends on it. To fail on health care yet again might well be the 'Waterloo' Republicans dream of.
Thomas Frank

Time, Health, Great

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.
Frederick William Faber

Great, Thinking, Words

It is a ship with a great deal of sail but a very shallow keel.
Robert Bork

Great, Deal, Ship

If you re-read your work, you can find on re-reading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by re-reading and editing.
William Safire

Work, Great, Find

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
Tom Peters

Great, Positive, Simple

I feel lucky because I was a nerd, which I talk about in the book, but I had academic success, so through that, because that's what my parents put a great deal of value on, I had a great childhood because I sort of fulfilled the expectations of being good at school.
Mindy Kaling

Success, Good, Great

The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War to the US and British policy that condemns modern Iraq to the material and social squalor of a half-century ago.
James Buchan

Great, War, After

It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
Henry James

Great, History, Takes

It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.
Elena Kagan

Life, Great, Cool

I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.
Gary Oldman

Great, Focus, Wanted

In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.
J. C. Watts

Great, Dad, Deal

We all have a hungry heart, and one of the things we hunger for is happiness. So as much as I possibly could, I stayed where I was happy. I spent a great deal of time in my younger years just writing and reading, walking around the woods in Ohio, where I grew up.
Mary Oliver

Happiness, Time, Great

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
Jeanette Winterson

Great, Character, Confusion

Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
Mike Krzyzewski

Great, Winning, Deal

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.
Harvey Keitel

Life, Great, Struggle

This club is all about winning trophies and we've got a chance of bringing the greatest trophy of them all back to Anfield, so it means a great deal obviously.
Steven Gerrard

Great, Greatest, Winning

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.
Karen Armstrong

Time, Good, Great

When I was teaching in the 1960s in Boston, there was a great deal of hope in the air. Martin Luther King Jr. was alive, Malcolm X was alive; great, great leaders were emerging from the southern freedom movement.
Jonathan Kozol

Great, Hope, Freedom

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