Great Things Quotes - Page 39

• Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament … There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Faith, Blessed, Romance

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2014). “The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien”, p.53, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The best training is to learn to accept everything as it comes, as from Him whom our soul loves. The tests are always unexpected things, not great things that can be written up, but the common little rubs of life, silly little nothings, things you are ashamed of minding one scrap

  Amy Carmichael

  Silly, Soul, Training

  Amy Carmichael (2010). “Candles in the Dark: Letters of Hope and Encouragement”, p.14, CLC Publications

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• The great thing about working out at a gym is that if you put in effort, you get very obvious results. The same should be true of college. A professor’s job is to teach students how to see their minds growing in the same way they can see their muscles grow when they look in a mirror.

  Randy Pausch

  Jobs, College, Mirrors

  Randy Pausch, Jeffrey Zaslow (2008). “The last lecture”, Hyperion Books

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• Say what you would about the dietary requirements, vampirism sure did do great things for the skin and body.

  Nalini Singh

  Skins, Body, Requirements

  Nalini Singh (2009). “Angels' Blood”, p.58, Penguin

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• Youth is an intoxication without wine, someone says. Life is an intoxication. The only sober man is the melancholiac, who, disenchanted, looks at life, sees it as it really is, and cuts his throat. If this be so, I want to be very drunk. The great thing is to live, to clutch at our existence and race away with it in some great and enthralling pursuit. Above all, I must beware of all ultimate questions- they are too maddeningly unanswerable- let me eschew philosophy and burn Omar.

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Philosophy, Wine, Cutting

  W. N. P. Barbellion (1919). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”

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• I was never educated to be an actor. I went to a regular college. It was a great thing for me because I feel that the main thing to get out of college is a thirst for knowledge. College should teach you how to be curious. Most people think that college is the end of education, but it isn't. The ceremony of giving you the diploma is called commencement. And that means you are fit to commence learning because you have learned hot to learn.

  Vincent Price

  Mean, College, Thinking

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• People often seem to think that when you're following the Lord and trying to do His will, your path will always be clear, the decisions smooth and easy, and life will be lived happily ever after and all that. Sometimes that may be true, but I've found that more often, it's not. The muddled decisions still seem muddled, bad things still happen to believers, and great things can happen to nonbelievers. When it comes to making our decisions, the key that God is concerned with is that we are trusting and seeking Him. God's desire is for us to align our lives with His Word and His will.

  Tim Tebow

  Thinking, Keys, People

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• Are some people destined for a great fate, or to do great things? Or is it only that they're born somehow with that great passion - and if they find themselves in the right circumstances, then things happen? It's the sort of thing you wonder.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Passion, Fate, People

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1526, Dell

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• What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Use, If I Could, Ifs

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “The Great Gatsby”, p.117, Atlântico Press

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• Never stop being a kid, Richard. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.

  Richard Bach

  Kids, Air, Feelings

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• And that's my point: all great things worth having require great sacrifice worth giving.

  Paullina Simons

  Sacrifice, Giving, Great Sacrifice

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• Abraham Lincoln was asked by an aide about the church service he had attended. Lincoln responded that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent and the topic relevant. The aide said, “Then it was a good service?” Lincoln responded, “No.” The aide protested, “But, Mr. President, you said that the minister was inspired, interesting, well-prepared, eloquent, and that the topic was relevant.” “Yes,” replied Lincoln, “but he didn’t challenge us to do any great thing.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Church Service, Interesting, Challenges

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• Numbers still gave Astrid pleasure. That was the great thing about numbers: it required no faith to believe that two plus two equaled four. And math never, ever condemned you for your thoughts and desires.

  Michael Grant

  Believe, Math, Two

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• One great thing about growing old is that nothing is going to lead to anything. Everything is of the moment.

  Joseph Campbell

  Growing, Moments, Growing Old

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• The great thing about reading is that it broadens your life

  George R. R. Martin

  Reading

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• And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to hear Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Mean, Giving, Records

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.125, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone has an effect on others. Some people inspire others to do great things. Some take people into crime with them. Those with the gift affect those around them even more.

  Terry Goodkind

  People, Inspire, Crime

  Terry Goodkind (2015). “Stone of Tears”, p.959, RosettaBooks

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• You are honest enough by nature to be able to see and judge your own self clearly - and that is a great thing. Never lose that honesty, Bobby - always be honest with yourself, know your own motives for what they are, good or bad, make your own decisions firmly and justly - and you will be a fine, strong character, of some real use in this muddled world of ours!

  Enid Blyton

  Strong, Honesty, Real

  Enid Blyton (2013). “Summer Term at St Clare's”, p.84, Egmont UK

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• One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience

  Keith Richards

  Intellectual

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• And really, how insulting is it that to suggest that the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things? I'm betting some of those women would like to do great things of their own.

  Jessica Valenti

  People, Insulting, Incredibles

  Jessica Valenti (2012). “Why Have Kids?: A New Mom Explores the Truth about Parenting and Happiness”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to have you reach after Him by faith. He longs to have you expect great things from Him. He longs to give you understanding in temporal as well as in spiritual matters. He can sharpen the intellect. He can give tact and skill. Put your talents into the work, ask God for wisdom, and it will be given you.

  Ellen G. White

  Spiritual, Believe, Men

  Ellen G. White (1941). “Christ's Object Lessons”

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• Dr. Everest, got up and gave us a little pep talk. Mostly it boiled down to the fact that it was autumn, and everyone was back, and while that was a great thing, people better not get cocky or misbehave or he'd personally kill us all. He didn't actually say those words, but that was the subtext.

  Maureen Johnson

  Cocky, Autumn, People

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• Because of the lingering discrimination, many women still lack confidence. They live in fear of stepping beyond what they feel is acceptable 'female' behavior. I can remember feeling that I wasn't 'normal' because I was aggressive, had dreams and goals, and wanted do do great things...I am glad now that I found courage to do something radical and chase my dreams.

  Joyce Meyer

  Dream, Goal, Feelings

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• And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots.

  George Orwell

  Bed, Boots, Stills

  George Orwell (2009). “Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays”, p.243, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Even now one rarely hears of people achieving great things unless they first stumble in some respect.

  Meister Eckhart

  People, Firsts, Achieve

  Eckhart (Meister) (1963). “Treatises and sermons of Meister Eckhart”

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