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Since Peter the Great, Russia had been expanding at the rate of one Belgium per year. — Henry Kissinger

I was no great achiever at school, either academically or in the sporting field ... I was always tending to be in trouble. — Peter Hollingworth

Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season. — Peter Bondra

Buster Keaton's 'The General,' from 1927, I think is still one of the great films of all time. — Peter Jackson

A lot of writers and artists are like chefs who eat their own cooking in the kitchen and then deliver an empty plate with assurances that it's great. — Peter Schjeldahl

Peter the Great imagined himself as a Russian Louis XIV — Jennifer Homans

Painting a young maiden is similar to cavorting with great abandon. It is the finest refreshment. — Peter Paul Rubens

Soldiers' bellies are not satisfied with empty promises and hopes. — Peter The Great

What if Van Gogh had taken medication for his mental illness? Would the world have been deprived of a great artist? — Peter D. Kramer

In the summer of 1990, I was buying stocks and I was probably three or four months early there. But we had a great rally in 1991. — Peter Lynch

To shift a few grains of sand is no more a sign of great strength than to see the sun a sign of great sight. There is no glory in dominating the weak. — Peter V. Brett

Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths. — John Peter Zenger

The great thing about history is that it is adaptable. — Peter Ustinov

All great change in business has come from outside the firm, not from inside. — Peter Drucker

No matter how great the script, the actual film will only be a distant relative of it - it will never be an identical twin. — Peter Straughan

She thought that one might not make a dent in the Great Sadness, but one could help make another person whole. — Peter Heller

Charts are great for predicting the past. — Peter Lynch

The great thing about making yourself the villain is nobody's likely to contradict you. — Peter Watts

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty. — Peter Marshall

Destiny may ride with us today, but there is no reason for it to interfere with lunch. — Peter The Great

I've had great success and I've had catastrophic failure. It's really how you handle the rough stuff that defines you, I think. — Peter Berg

Great leaders get people to think more of themselves, not more of the leader. — Peter Burwash

1725. The year of The Tour Seasons. The year that Peter the Great became less so, in that he died. — Stephen Fry

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. — Peter S. Beagle

The great fish moved silently through the night water. — Peter Benchley

Charity shall cover the multitude of sins. — Peter The Great

Your heart may be paltry compared with the heart of a great saint, but your heart is what God wants from you. — Peter Kreeft

The automotive X Prize, to a great degree, is focused on addressing petroleum usage and carbon emissions. — Peter Diamandis

We shall come one day to a heaven where we shall gratefully know that God's great refusals were sometimes the true answers to our truest prayer. — Peter Forsyth

It is my great desire to reform my subjects, and yet I am ashamed to confess that I am unable to reform myself. — Peter The Great

Great stories give us the grace of a mystical experience, on the level of the imagination. — Peter Kreeft

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story. — Peter Gabriel

What makes the great great? It is a sense of destiny. — Peter J. Daniels

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent. — Jan Peter Balkenende

Oh great," moaned Owen. "we've got one corpse in the SUV already, and now we have to fit us and this carcass in there too — Peter Anghelides

We must be pure. I do not speak merely of the purity of the senses. We must observe great purity in our will, in our intentions, in all our actions. — Peter Julian Eymard

The Americans just have a great sort of wit about them. — Peter Capaldi

All in all, Peter's love of being Peter was so great that like an overfilled bucket of paint it slopped over even in the smallest moments of his day. — Brian McGreevy

Our Lady showed us a great sea of fire which seemed to be under the earth. - Sister Lucia Dos Santos — Peter J. Tanous

I love Salt Lake City. well. It's beautiful with all the great outdoors around you. — Peter Sagal

'Star Wars' or 'The Lord of the Rings' deal with great big Joseph Campbell-style myths, good and evil. — Peter Dinklage

I do know this: When somebody has to look great on the screen, that's the death of funny. — Peter Farrelly

Imagine! In each of us lies the potential to do superhuman things. Feats of great physical daring, art, science. The ability to defy laws of nature. — Peter Lerangis

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it. — Peter Eisenman

I was overtaken by a dread of utter solitude in the great turning world. — Peter Matthiessen

It is willingness of people to give of themselves over and above the demands of the job that distinguishes the great from the merely adequate. — Peter Drucker

In the presence of greatness, pettiness disappears. In the absence of a great dream, pettiness prevails. — Peter M. Senge

When I started DJing years ago, I took great delight in annoying the audience. Playing Johnny Cash in the middle of a banging night. — Peter Hook

Every time I see Peter Falk in the movie I think that would be great. We'd be fun together. — Paul Reiser

All the time and effort people devote to picking the right fund, the hot hand, the great manager have, in most cases, led to no advantage. — Peter Lynch

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors. — Tracey Ullman

One of the great things about education is that it should stop you making mistakes - and I have made a lot of mistakes. — Peter Hook

The biggest problem facing a monkey today is: trees. There's bloody great huge trees everywhere; getting in the way.

(Leaps And Bounds) — Peter Coomber

The great danger of law in modern student affairs practice is apathy, acceptance, and blind disobedience. — Peter Lake

As a founder, your first job is to get the first things right, because you cannot build a great company on a flawed foundation. — Peter Thiel

a great business is defined by its ability to generate cash flows in the future. — Peter Thiel

I have conquered an empire but I have not been able to conquer myself — Peter The Great

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my Cockney accent. — Peter Ackroyd

Socrates: So was I.
Bertha: Are you saying you're as great as him, then?
Socrates: No, no, on the contrary, I'm assuming just the opposite! — Peter Kreeft

In this very breath that we take now lies the secret that all great teachers try to tell us. — Peter Matthiessen

Now Peter said by exceeding great and precious promises you become partakers of the divine class. All right, are we gods? We are a class of gods! — Kenneth Copeland

Give back everything to ... — Peter The Great

One of the great joys of life is creativity. Information goes in, gets shuffled about, and comes out in new and interesting ways. — Peter McWilliams

Playing with your spouse on the golf course runs almost as great a marital risk as getting caught playing with someone else's anywhere else. — Peter Andrews

It was great spending the nights with him, but sometimes, she needed a little break from him and the her that she became around him. — Peter Murphy

Yeah, in the digital world, it is so much easier to put stuff out without a great deal of paraphernalia and fanfare. — Peter Gabriel

The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure. — Laurence J. Peter

I loved doing My Favorite Year, which was great fun, and The Ruling Class, which I made with all my chums. — Peter O'Toole