Epic Quotes - Page 5

• Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.

  John Peers

  Funny, Happy, Dog

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  Men want the same thing from their underwear that they want from women: a little bit of support, and a little bit of freedom.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Funny, Birthday, Men

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• Nature is a book of many pages and each page tells a fascinating story to him who learns her language. Our fertile valleys and craggy mountains recite an epic poem of geologic conflicts. The starry sky reveal gigantic suns and space and time without end.

  A. E. Douglass

  Nature, Book, Sky

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• The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Soul, Tragedy, Important

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• My God, that scene in Monster Inc. where the monsters realise that their entire world is founded on hurting children -look at that for a change! Two galumphing cartoon characters making a shattering realisation about their world and their role in sustaining it. A truly epic moment. It's stunning.

  Russell T Davies

  Hurt, Children, Character

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• For official record, announce instructor, the state requires no epic hero. No strive achieve personal celebrity of spotlight and applause. Lectures instructor, the state desires best ideal perform as mediocre. No gain attention showboat. No buffoon. Best effort so occur average. Suppress climbing ego. Become ordinary. Invisible.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Hero, Climbing, Average

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• As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to type, 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence.

  Michael Palin

  Atheist, Morning, Believe

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• Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Memories, Home

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.542, Penguin

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• Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done, except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all.

  Stephen Colbert

  Life, Jobs, Darkness

  TV Series "The Colbert Report" (Season 3, 2007), 2005–2015.

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• Such movies are always a danger...falling in love is something most adults have actually experienced...The theme is universal and encourages...unhealthy comparisons...why can't our lives be like that? It's a box left unopened, and its avoidance explains the continued popularity of vampire epics and martial-arts extravaganzas.

  David Sedaris

  Falling In Love, Art, Love Is

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• Why haven't we fixed sick yet? You scientists there-- put down those starfish and HELP us. I hereby demand that all the people who are good at math make the world free of illness. The rest of us will write you epic poems and staple them together into a booklet.

  Daniel Handler

  Writing, Math, People

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• It was a kiss small in its ministrations but epic in its feeling.

  Libba Bray

  Kissing, Feelings

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• The trip was to be an odyssey in the fullest sense of the word, an epic journey that would change everything.

  Jon Krakauer

  Journey, Odyssey

  Jon Krakauer (2011). “Into the Wild”, p.22, Pan Macmillan

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• I will fight for your right to be weird- just as I know you will fight for mine.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Fighting, Mines, Knows

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Better Than Sex: Confessions of a Political Junkie”, Ballantine Books

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• Heaven is a person: Jesus.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Jesus, Heaven, Persons

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• Never traffic in unpracticed truth.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Traffic

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• You are able to do many things. But be sure you find the one thing you must do.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Able, One Thing

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• There's no one without significant creative potential.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Creative, Significant

  Howard G. Hendricks (1998). “Color Outside the Lines: A Revolutionary Approach to Creative Leadership”, W Publishing Group

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• If you're just like someone else, we don't need you.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Needs, Don't Need You, Ifs

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• More often than not, a hero’s most epic battle is the one you never see; it’s the battle that goes on within him or herself.

  Kevin Smith

  Hero, Battle, Goes On

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• She was the epic crush of my childhood. She was the tragedy that made me look inside myself and see my corrupt heart. She was my sin and my salvation, come back from the grave to change me forever. Again. Back then, when she sat on my bed and told me she loved me, I wanted her as much as I have ever wanted anything.

  Holly Black

  Crush, Heart, Childhood

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• Sorry, Ms. Terwilliger. I'm flattered that you think I'm such an upstanding person, but I'm already caught up in one epic battle of good versus evil. I don't need another.

  Richelle Mead

  Sorry, Thinking, Evil

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.93, Penguin

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• after an epic search, I finally found something neither green nor fuzzy. It was a hot sausage link. I named it Peter, mostly because it seemed like the right thing to do. As soon as my java was piping hot I popped him into the microwave. hopefully the radioactive environment would sterilize Peter. No need to have little Peters running around, wreaking havoc.

  Darynda Jones

  Running, Hot, Needs

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.8, St. Martin's Press

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• I’m sorry ma’am,” I said. Really, I had no idea what else to say. I’d spent the weekend caught up in an epic battle to save humanity, and now… jean shorts?

  Richelle Mead

  Sorry, Weekend, Ideas

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.27, Penguin

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• The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  Teacher, Taught, Students

  "You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles and Practices" by Swen Nater, Ronald Gallimore, Fitness Information Technology, Incorporated, (p. 151), 2010.

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