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Build your inner environment. Practice Silence! I remember the wonderful discipline of the Great Ones. When we used to talk and chatter, they would say: "Go back into your inner castle." It was very hard to comprehend then, but now I understand the way of peace -- Paramahansa Yogananda
I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones. -- Zayn Malik
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. -- Aesop
Small communities grow great through harmony, great ones fall to pieces through discord. -- Sallust
They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear. -- Noel Gallagher
Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones. -- William Shakespeare
The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion. -- Blaise Pascal
I'm such an admirer, I am an admirer of villains, especially working with so many great ones. -- Tom Felton
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones. -- Nicolas Chamfort
Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones. -- Pericles
The road has taken a lot of the great ones: Hank Williams, Buddy Holly, Otis Redding, Janis, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis. -- Robbie Robertson
There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the lessor ones, who can only give you themselves. -- Clifton Fadiman
The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player. -- Pele
I don't have a ton of friends, but the friends I have are great ones. I don't have huge family, but the family I have is a great one. -- Alicia Keys
Previous presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don't think Barack Obama ever wanted to be on the same page as Richard Nixon. -- Joe Klein
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 teaching - just plain old knock 'em dead, get it right, make 'em laugh, make 'em wonder instruction - is always going to be rare. Good teachers abound. Great ones are special. -- Robert Krulwich
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
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
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
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
I'm not a writer. I know a lot of writers; I know a handful of really excellent, great ones, and I know what they're like. They are in love with language. They're obsessed with it. Even if their thoughts aren't more special than anybody else's, they have a way of putting them into words that makes them sensational. -- David Small
Little rogues easily become great ones. -- Benjamin Franklin
Minor artists borrow, great ones steal. -- Ned Rorem
Small crimes always precedes great ones. -- Jean Racine
Great rogues hang the little ones. -- Cardinal Mazarin
The great ones don't come cheap. -- Mike Holmgren
Time never stops for the great ones -- Al Davis
great books are the ones we need -- Charles Bukowski
Great changes are easier than small ones. -- Francis Bacon
Small sorrows speak great ones are silent. -- Seneca the Younger
Madness in great ones must not unwatched go. -- William Shakespeare
The great ones never take fundamentals for granted. -- Twyla Tharp
Solitude cherishes great virtues and destroys little ones. -- Sydney Smith
Those that weather the storm are the great ones. -- DJ Khaled
Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb -- Seneca
Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones. -- Benjamin Franklin
Light griefs are plaintive , but great ones are dumb -- Seneca
All mothers have intuition. The great ones have radar. -- Cathy Guisewite
Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small. -- Algernon Sidney
The gods attend to great matters, they neglect small ones. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones. -- Saint Augustine
Light cares cry out; the great ones still are dumb. -- Seneca the Younger
Litle stickes kindle the fire; great ones put it out. -- George Herbert
The great cowboys are the ones with the biggest hearts. -- Ty Murray
Little secrets are commonly told again, but great ones generally kept. -- Lord Chesterfield
Eminent station makes great men more great, and little ones less. -- Jean de la Bruyere
There would be no great ones if there were no little ones -- George Herbert
There would be no great men if there were no little ones. -- George Herbert
People like me, LB, the truly great ones ... we are always alone. -- Eoin Colfer
How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude! -- Matthew Arnold
Light cares speak, great ones are speechless. -Curae leves loquuntur ingentes stupent -- Seneca the Younger
Most men only commit great crimes because of their scruples about petty ones. -- Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
An acknowledged love sanctifies every little freedom; and little freedoms beget great ones. -- Samuel Richardson
Great occasions for serving God come seldom, but little ones surround us daily. -- Saint Francis de Sales
When the house of a great one collapses Many little ones are slain. -- Bertolt Brecht
If great men would have care of little ones, both would last long. -- George Herbert
Minias smiled. Great. Another charming demon. I sort of prefer the insane ones. -- Kim Harrison
You can't appreciate a great day unless you've experienced bad ones." - Rabbi Glassman -- Simone Elkeles
People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse) -- Eric S. Raymond
It is not the great temptations that ruin us; it is the little ones. -- John William De Forest
The majority of men are more capable of great actions than of good ones. -- Baron de Montesquieu
We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves we have no great ones. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity. -- Allan Sloan
We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence. -- Joni Mitchell
There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you. -- Ernest Hemingway
Tim Price is one of the real ones ! A good friend and a great player ! -- Phil Woods
What you have to remember is that the great feelings come after the terrible ones. -- Anjelica Huston
Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The great actors are the luminous ones. They are the great conductors of the stage. -- Ethel Barrymore
All good athletes make mistakes; the great ones learn to make that mistake only once. -- Raul Lopez
Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs. -- Bill Gates
Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed. -- Poppy Z. Brite
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. -- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Opinions: men's thoughts about great subjects. Taste: their thoughts about small ones: dress, behavior, amusements, ornaments. -- George Eliot
One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones. -- Bret Harte
Cancer is the great equalizer. Everyone is affected by it either themselves or through loved ones. -- Andrew Lo
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones. -- Phillips Brooks
A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Small crimes always precede great ones. Never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness. -- Jean Racine
All organizations start with WHY, but only the great ones keep their WHY clear year after year. -- Simon Sinek
The best shows are always the ones that are very, very low-concept and just about great characters. -- Michael Schur
Universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
The people who don't have a great life are the ones who settle for a good one. -- James C. Collins
The really great people are the ones who know how to make the little people feel great. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
In great matters, men behave as they are expected to; in little ones, as they would naturally -- Nicolas Chamfort
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all. -- Thomas Carlyle
May the Great Mystery continue to guide and protect the paths of you and your loved ones. -- Russell Means
Perhaps I might have resisted a great temptation, but the little ones would have pulled me down -- Edith Wharton
I have great memories of being a Cub, and I'm happy building new ones with the Phillies. -- Ryne Sandberg
It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. -- Henri Poincare
The temperament that produces a talent for little things is the opposite of that required for great ones. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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What great delight it is to see the ones we love and then to have speech with them. -- Vincent McNabb
The princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
Good teams become great ones when the members trust each other enough to surrender the Me for the We. -- Phil Jackson
What separates great players from the good ones is not so much ability as brain power and emotional equilibrium. -- Arnold Palmer
Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader's skull and heart. -- Siri Hustvedt
Doing good makes you great. Bad things take away from good ones. Practicing Netiquette is all good. NetworkEtiquette.net -- David Chiles
It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones. -- Jean Webster
What makes a nation great is not primarily its great men, but the stature of its innumerable mediocre ones. -- Jose Ortega y Gasset
There are five top superstars in golf, 20 great stars, and 30 good ones. The rest should go and get jobs. -- Mark McCormack
The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can. -- William Hazlitt
I've always appreciated great acting performances, but I've even learned to appreciate not so great ones 'cause it's hard. -- Zoe Bell
Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones. -- Honore de Balzac
A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones. -- Roald Dahl
The heavy guitars are the ones that sound good. They are not that comfortable, but they do sound great. -- Neal Schon
When God delays in fulfilling our little thoughts, it is to have Himself room to work out His great ones. -- Lilias Trotter
Jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones. -- Cab Calloway
The universe is but one great city, full of beloved ones, divine and human, by nature endeared to each other. -- Epictetus
Beauty may be the object of liking--great qualities of admiration--good ones of esteem--but love only is the object of love. -- Henry Fielding
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. -- Ernest Hemingway
We children of schizophrenics are the great secret keepers, the ones who don't want you to think that anything is wrong. -- Mira Bartok

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