Great Ones Quotes - Page 8

• Minor artists borrow, great ones steal.

  Ned Rorem

  Artist, Stealing, Minors

  Ned Rorem (2013). “Knowing When to Stop: A Memoir”, p.83, Open Road Media

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• As Attraction is stronger in small Magnets than in great ones in proportion to their Bulk, and Gravity is greater in the Surfaces of small Planets than in those of great ones in proportion to their bulk, and small Bodies are agitated much more by electric attraction than great ones; so the smallness of the Rays of Light may contribute very much to the power of the Agent by which they are refracted.

  Isaac Newton

  Light, Stronger, Rays

  Sir Isaac Newton (1718). “Opticks: Or, A Treatise of the Reflections, Refractions, Inflections and Colours of Light. ...”, p.326

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• Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones.

  Horace Bushnell

  Character, Perfect, Mind

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.294

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• Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small.

  Algernon Sidney

  Men, Society, Fishes

  'Discourses concerning Government' (1698) ch. 2, sect. 18

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• It may happen that small differences in the initial conditions produce very great ones in the final phenomena. A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the later. Prediction becomes impossible, and we have the fortuitous phenomena.

  Henri Poincare

  Errors, Differences, Finals

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• Little Bobby Jones of Atlanta is really a fine player, and shows every indication of becoming a tremendous great one, once he is master of himself, which must come with maturity.

  A. W. Tillinghast

  Golf, Maturity, Player

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• Billy (Martin) was a great one for jokes. He liked to play a joke more than anyone I ever knew.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Play, Jokes

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• The Omen is one of my favorites. Even though I'm an atheist now, I was brought up Catholic and can remember thinking that it could actually be real! The first Dawn of the Dead is a great one. We had a TV serial in Britain called Day of the Triffids and that was always really terrifying for me as well.

  Nick Frost

  Atheist, Real, Thinking

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• The truth is, we pamper little griefs into great ones, and bear great ones as well as we can.

  William Hazlitt

  Grief, Littles, Bears

  William Hazlitt (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)”, p.1256, Delphi Classics

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• How many great ones may remember'd be,
  Which in their days most famously did flourish,
  Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see,
  But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish,
  Because the living cared not to cherish
  No gentle wits, through pride or covetize,
  Which might their names forever memorize!

  Edmund Spenser

  Pride, Names, Forever

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• I have discovered that a famed familiarity in great ones is a note of certain usurpation on the less; for great and popular men feign themselves to be servants to others to make those slaves to them.

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Slave, Popularity

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.875

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• How many minds--almost all the great ones--were formed in secrecy and solitude!

  Matthew Arnold

  Solitude, Mind, Secrecy

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• What is thy thought? There is no miracle?
  There is a great one, which thou hast not read,
  And never shalt escape. Thyself, O man,
  Thou art the miracle. Ay, thou thyself,
  Being in the world and of the world, thyself,
  Hast breathed in breath from Him that made the world.
  Thou art thy Father's copy of Himself,--
  Thou art thy Father's miracle.

  Jean Ingelow

  Art, Father, Men

  Jean Ingelow, “A Story Of Doom: Book Vii.”

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• Curiously enough, while very small people have a never-failing sense of their own importance, very great ones are often easily disheartened and put out of conceit with themselves.

  Elizabeth Wordsworth

  People, Failing, Enough

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• However great one's gift of language may be, there is always something that one cannot tell.

  Mary MacLane

  May, Speech, Language

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• The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating our undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones, alas! are let on long leases.

  Richard Sharp

  Lying, Long, Secret

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• Whoever thou art, whatever in other respects thy life may be, my friend, by ceasing to take part (if ordinarily thou doest) in the public worship of God, as it now is (with the claim that it is the Christianity of the New Testament), thou hast constantly one guilt the less, and that a great one: thou dost not take part in treating God as a fool by calling that the Christianity of the New Testament which is not the Christianity of the New Testament.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Art, Guilt, May

  Soren Kierkegaard (1959). “Attack Upon 'Christendom'”

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• I love home cooking, and I'm not a great one for fast food.

  Bear Grylls

  Home, Cooking, Fast Food

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• You've got to be in a bad relationship to really understand what a great one is.

  Steve Harvey

  Relationship, Success, Faith

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

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• The World Cup is a very important way to measure the good players, and the great ones. It is a test of a great player.

  Pele

  Inspirational, Player, Important

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• I loved the material when I first read it, and the experience of making the film was a great one. So when we came around to complete the trilogy, I just signed on board without even reading the scripts because the experience of the first film was so good.

  Keanu Reeves

  Reading, Firsts, Boards

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• Yes, O Great One, I shall do as you command. Then when we come back empty-pawed, you'll admit I was right." - Squirrelflight to Brambleclaw

  Erin Hunter

  Empty, Command

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• No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by the moon.

  William Shakespeare

  Wall, Butterfly, Blessing

  'King Lear' (1605-6) act 5, sc. 3, l. 8

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• He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One

  Said Nursi

  Names, Body, Majesty

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• People like me, LB, the truly great ones ... we are always alone.

  Eoin Colfer

  People, Always Alone, Like Me

  Eoin Colfer (2009). “And Another Thing...”, Hyperion

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