Great Things Quotes - Page 16

• Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Familiar, Customs

  "The Characters or Manners of the Present Age". Book by Jean de La Bruyère, Nicholas Rowe,Volume II, Chapter I. On Judgments, 1688.

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• High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Common Sense, Politics

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• The great thing in life is not to be able to do things, because then they are always done for you.

  Angela Thirkell

  Things In Life, Done, Able

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• The care of God for us is a great thing, if a man believe it at heart: it plucks the burden of sorrow from him.

  Euripides

  Believe, Heart, Men

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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• I was struck by the way in which meanings are historically attached to words: it is so accidental, so remote, so twisted. A word is like a schoolgirl's room--a complete mess--so the great thing is to make out a way of seeing it all as ordered, as right, as inferred and following.

  William H. Gass

  Way, Rooms, Twisted

  William H. Gass, Theodore G. Ammon (2003). “Conversations with William H. Gass”, p.23, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.

  William James

  Education, Enemy, Allies

  William James (2012). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.122, Courier Corporation

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• In the theater you rehearse for a minimum of five to six weeks. And then you get to play it. Which means you get to get better. That's the great thing about the theater.

  Christopher Walken

  Mean, Play, Get Better

  "Seven Psychopaths Q&A: 10 Minutes in Heaven With Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell". Interview with Andy Greenwald, grantland.com. October 11, 2012.

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• Olympics are probably the most important thing for Russians than any other athletes in the whole world. Since I was a little kid and since everybody was a little kid, their dream was playing in Olympic Games, especially if we have a chance to represent our country in Sochi, it's unbelievable and it's going to be a great thing.

  Alexander Ovechkin

  Dream, Country, Athlete

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• I don't think I'm craving any more fame. But success and being recognized for making great work all around the world, I think it's a great thing.

  John Legend

  Thinking, World, Fame

  "John Legend talks on music, wedding, Kanye, Syria, more". Interview with The Associated Press, www.denverpost.com. September 10, 2013.

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• It's such a great thing to work with people and not have a plan.

  Thomas Lennon

  People, Plans

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• Sunset is a wonderful opportunity for us to appreciate all the great things the sun gives us!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Sunset, Opportunity, Appreciate

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• a great mind can attend to little things, but a little mind cannot attend to great things.

  Lydia M. Child

  Mind, Littles, Little Things

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• With women, you always have to make an educated decision to figure out what they're thinking. It's not one that's necessarily sympathetic, always. Of course, we're all human beings, but the gender thing is big thing. And a great thing.

  Will Oldham

  Thinking, Decision, Gender

  Interview with Ryan Schreiber, pitchfork.com. September 1, 2001.

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• No great thing happens suddenly.

  Rebecca West

  Change, Happens, Things Happen

  Rebecca West (1982). “The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17”, Not Avail

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• A life of value is not a series of great things well done; it is a series of small things consciously done.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Done, Wells, Series

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• There's no safety in love. You risk the whole of life. But the great thing is to risk -to believe, and to risk everything for your belief.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Love You, Believe, Safety

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• That's the great thing about a sense of humor and a sex drive, you can't wait to share it with everybody else.

  Dolly Parton

  Sex, Waiting, Sense Of Humor

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• It is not the weariness of mortality, but the strength of divinity, which we have to recognize in all mighty things; and that is just what we now never recognize, but think that we are to do great things by help of iron bars and perspiration. Alas! we shall do nothing that way but lose some pounds of our own weight.

  John Ruskin

  Power, Thinking, Iron

  John Ruskin, Louisa Caroline Tuthill (1858). “The true and the beautiful in nature, art, morals, and religion”, p.317

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• The great thing about theater is that you have so much time to prepare, and to fail, before presenting it to the public. In film, the high-wire act seems to be that much farther up, and the net seems to be less there.

  Chris Pine

  Wire, Film, Failing

  "Chris Pine Remains People Like Us". Interview with Ann Lieber, www.theatermania.com. June 29, 2012.

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• The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no one, except maybe a Cambridge or Oxford don, can call you out and prove you wrong.

  Steven Pressfield

  Writing, Oxford, Ancient

  Interview with Will Duquette, www.patheos.com. May 21, 2014.

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• The great thing about being ignored is that you can speak the truth with impunity.

  Steve Aylett

  Being Ignored, Speak, Impunity

  "Heart of the Original". Book by Steve Aylett, 2015.

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• One of my favorite cartoon characters is Snoopy. I love the way he sits and lies on his kennel and contemplates the great things of life.

  Jackie Tabick

  Lying, Character, Cartoon

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• The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

  Seneca the Younger

  Quiet, Speak, Knows

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• When you play the bars, you pay your dues. It does matter that you know those things [songs]. And the great thing for me, too, is that I draw on that stuff as influences. It's also stuff that you put in the tank that you pull from to make records.

  Eric Church

  Song, Play, Tanks

  "Who the hell is Eric Church?". Interview with Bill DeYoung, www.connectsavannah.com. January 31, 2012.

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• That's the great thing about being in the third grade. If you've got one polysyllabic adjective, everyone thinks you're a genius.

  John Green

  Children, Thinking, Genius

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