Great Ones Quotes

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Wind, Fans

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones.
William Shakespeare

Great, Men, Live

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
Aesop

Great, Public, Office

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.
Blaise Pascal

Great, Men, Small

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Become, Themselves

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Great, Small, Free

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.
Lord Chesterfield

Great, Mind, Cannot

I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones.
Tom Felton

Great, Working, Villains

Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord.
Sallust

Great, Through, Small

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
Nicolas Chamfort

Money, Great, Small

I'm not going to have a perfect career. It's better to be Billy Wilder and make lots of movies and have five or six great ones than to make so few movies that when you make a bad one it crushes you.
Jason Reitman

Great, Movies, Bad

When I was a kid, I thought movie stars were women and men who were in these great films that we still look at now. But I don't think there are too many films coming out these days that we're going to look at in the future and say, 'This is one of the great ones.'
Lindsay Lohan

Women, Great, Men

A lot of young-adult authors, great ones, have tried their hands at literary fiction, and not a lot of them have succeeded. Not even Roald Dahl could switch-hit, and not for lack of trying.
Lev Grossman

Great, Trying, Hands

Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.
Pericles

Great, Men, Live

I usually set aside a lot of time in advance of a movie with important roles for kids to search, but when you have great ones, they can be a real ace in the hole.
Wes Anderson

Time, Great, Important

There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves.
Cliff Fadiman

Great, Give, Two

I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
Zayn Malik

Love, Great, Makes

All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.
Carl Bernstein

Great, Times, Three

I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.
Jason Gann

Work, Great, Done

I always thought that Elvis could have been a great actor, and that he was put in a lot of unimportant movies when he could have done a lot of great ones.
Patti Page

Great, Movies, Done

And so while the great ones depart to their dinner, the secretary stays, growing thinner and thinner, racking his brain to record and report what he thinks that they think that they ought to have thought.
Arthur Bryant

Great, Brain, Thought

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