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• For those who are willing to make an effort, great miracles and wonderful treasures are in store.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Great, Wonderful

• Our knowledge is a little island in a great ocean of nonknowledge.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Great

• There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

  Isaac Bashevis Singer

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, True

• The defects of great men are the consolation of the dunces.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Men, Defects

• Time the great destroyer of other men’s happiness, only enlarges the patrimony of literature to its possessor.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Happiness, Great

• After all, it is style alone by which posterity will judge of a great work, for an author can have nothing truly his own but his style.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Great

• Have you ever wondered why young people take to music like fish to water? Maybe it’s because music is fun. Plan and simple. It opens up their minds to dream great dreams about where they can go and what they can do when they get older.

  Isaac Hayes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Great, Dreams

• Had the Hebrews not been disturbed in their progress a thousand and more years ago, they would have solved all the great problems of civilization which are being solved now under all the difficulties imposed by the spirit of the Middle Ages.

  Isaac Mayer Wise

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Great, Problems

• I can’t look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do.

  Isaac Rosenberg

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Simple, Large

• The distance is great from the firm belief to the realization from concrete experience.

  Isabella I of Castile

  Topics in Belief, Experience

  Tags in Great

• Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker – I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it’s not real.

  Isabelle Huppert

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Real, Difficult

• When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

  Isak Dinesen

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Time, Great

• Marilyn was a great actress, not a dumb blond bombshell. She was very smart, very astute and a good businesswoman.

  Lawrence Schiller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Good, Great, Subject

• A person may rightfully be happy if in this life he could do a great favor for widows and orphans, could assist support than, and facilitate fate of people

  Islam Karimov

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Great, Happy

• In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon victory.

  Isoroku Yamamoto

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Win, War

• I started to work with cotton fabrics. I used cotton because it’s easy to work with, to wash, to take care of, to wear if it’s warm or cold. It’s great. That was the start.

  Issey Miyake

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Great, Care

• A great thing happening now in art is that artists are using the figure, the body, clothing, life.

  Issey Miyake

  Topics in Art, Life

  Tags in Great

• New York is the great stone desert.

  Israel Zangwill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Stone

• I think if you look at Andre then and now, you look at two different models. Of course it’s personal preference, I think Andre now is a great role model for the kids. He has started training differently than he was before, and so on and so on.

  Ivan Lendl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Different

• If you become great, then you can become happy. If you’re happy first, it’s much more difficult to be great.

  Ivan Lendl

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Great, Happy