Famous Quotes

"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."

Jean Genet on Great

More quotes about Great

• "Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Great

• "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."

  Albert Einstein on Great

• "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

  William Shakespeare on Great

• "One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton on Great

• "All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."

  Winston Churchill on Great

More quotes by Jean Genet

• "I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."

• "Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all."

• "Crimes of which a people is ashamed constitute its real history. The same is true of man."

• "The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."

• "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."