If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
Brendan Francis

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

It really pains me greatly to hear from graduate students that graduate education is a lower priority here.
Ruth J. Simmons

It sometimes seems that we have only to love a thing greatly to get it.
Robert Collier

John Waters has certainly gotten to a place in his life where he doesn't do anything he doesn't want to do. He's always been that way, but at this point, he's greatly respected for it.
Alicia Witt

Marty Richards is an angel on Earth. A producer that does what he says he'll do. He helped me greatly.
Rip Taylor

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.
Henry David Thoreau

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Moreover, the accomplishment of Russia's aims has been greatly simplified by the fact that we have heretofore offered the world no practical antidote for the Russian poison.
James Forrestal

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me.
Meredith Brooks

My wife and I are affiliated with a temple here in Los Angeles. We feel very close to the congregation and to the rabbi, who happens to be my wife's cousin and who I admire greatly. I talk to him regularly but I consider myself more spiritual than religious.
Leonard Nimoy

My wife has brought great beauty into my life. And my daughter has brought me nothing but joy. Those qualities were greatly lacking.
Christopher Meloni

Nations are equal in respect to each other, and entitled to claim equal consideration for their rights, whatever may be their relative dimensions or strength or however greatly they may differ in government, religion or manners.
James Kent

Nevertheless, China was unfortunately unable to understand Japan's real position, and it is greatly to be regretted that the Sino-Japanese War became one of long duration.
Hideki Tojo

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.
John Howard

Of course, individuals vary greatly within each racial group and should be treated as such.
J. Philippe Rushton

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert Kennedy

Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.
Anais Nin

Rather than showing themselves to be an ally to the middle class by ending the AMT or repealing it for years to come, my Republican colleagues refused to include it in today's legislation and America's middle class will surely suffer that choice greatly.
Ellen Tauscher