Epic Quotes

• You teach what you know, but you reproduce what you are.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Leadership, Discipleship, Teach

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• I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Weed, Hate, Drinking

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Jul 15, 2014

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• Some may never live, but the crazy never die.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Crazy, May, Dies

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I would go to war with Dhoni by my side.

  Gary Kirsten

  War, Dhoni, Sides

  "I Would Go to War With Dhoni by My Side: Gary Kirsten". www.dnaindia.com. June 18, 2011.

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• Most people don't think, they just rearrange their prejudices.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Thinking, People, Prejudice

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• You can impress from a distance, but you can only impact up close.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Distance, Impact, Discipleship

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• You never graduate from the school of discipleship.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  School, Graduates, Discipleship

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• You cannot impart what you do not possess.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Discipleship, Christian Discipleship, Impart

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2009). “As Iron Sharpens Iron: Building Character in a Mentoring Relationship”, p.58, Moody Publishers

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• Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro.

  Dean Koontz

  Order, Shoes, Evil

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.205, Bantam

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• The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

  Victor Hugo

  Wisdom, Real, Drama

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.12468, Delphi Classics

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• An epic is the easiest kind of picture to make badly.

  Charlton Heston

  Kindness, Inspiration, Kind

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• Never make permanent decisions on temporary feelings.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Decision, Feelings, Permanent

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• When I die, the last thing I want to see is the six that Dhoni hit in the 2011 World Cup final.

  Sunil Gavaskar

  Dhoni, Finals, World

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• I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Clever, Hipster

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.153, Wordsworth Editions

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  I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

  Douglas Adams

  Love, Inspirational, Hilarious

  "The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time (Dirk Gently, Book 3)". Book by Douglas Adams, 2002.

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• The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

  Jane Austen

  Inspirational, Funny, Stupid

  Jane Austen (2005). “Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1”, p.460, Shoes & Ships & Sealing Wax

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• If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Change, Happiness

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.152, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• How big is your God? The size of your God determines the size of everything.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Size, Bigs, Determine

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• Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.

  William Faulkner

  Writing, Study, Window

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• An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

  Agatha Christie

  Love, Funny, Birthday

  Attributed in Bennett Cerf, The Life of the Party (1956)

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• The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.

  Anatole Broyard

  Stories, Being Human, Ends

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• My earliest acting memory is making up a play for my mom and dad called The Lonesome Baby. I have no idea what The Lonesome Baby was about. I just remember the title. But I'm sure it was an epic.

  Jane Horrocks

  Mom, Baby, Memories

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• If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

  Lascelles Abercrombie

  Fall, Poetry Is, Species

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• My greatest fear is not your failure, but your success.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Greatest Fear, Discipleship

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• I Am Really Gifted To Play Under The Leadership Of MS Dhoni.

  Michael Hussey

  Play, Ms Dhoni, Gifted

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