Big Things Quotes - Page 2

• It occurred to Susan that men were always waiting for something cataclysmic-love or war or a giant asteroid. Every man wanted to be a hot-headed Bruce Willis character, fighting against the evil foreign enemy while despising the domestic bureaucracy. Men just wanted to focus on one big thing, leaving the thousands of smaller messes for the women around them to clean up.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  War, Character, Fighting

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• We've had the U.N. for almost 60 years, yet we've never actually made a fundamental list of all the big things that we can do in the world, and said, 'Which of them should we do first?'

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Years, Fundamentals, World

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• Diet is a big thing. I am a firm believer in you are what you eat. I juice a lot, I try and stick to a Paleo Diet. At its core, I look at MS as inflammation, so I try and eliminate foods that cause inflammation: dairy, gluten, grains.

  Jack Osbourne

  Trying, Paleo Diet, Looks

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• Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

  Terry McAuliffe

  Lying, Littles, Little Things

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• If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.

  Dwight Gooden

  Winning, Gone, Arms

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• The world's big things only can be done by paying attention to their humble beginnings.

  Laozi

  Humble, Attention, Done

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• Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less mistakes as you get older, and I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

  Ken Livingstone

  Mistake, Done, Should

  "Ken Livingstone: 'It's an autobiography, not porn'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2011.

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• Anger is a little thing. Hate is a little thing. Order is a little thing. Each of these little things has a major impact on the big picture. Right thinking, right action, and right response to the little things will help us conquer the big things, like injustice, inequality, poverty, and disorder. Until we are each able to conquer and master the little things in our lives, the big things will remain undone.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Hate, Thinking, Impact

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• I think my favorite place to eat dinner is the movie theater. Dirty dogs, a big thing of nachos and a Cherry Coke - and I'm good.

  Chris Kirkpatrick

  Dog, Dirty, Thinking

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• I can trust in my parents' love. And it strikes me that is a big thing to trust, a big thing to have had, no matter what else happens.

  Ally Condie

  Parent, Matter, Bigs

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.216, Penguin

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• And then, I do love my shopping, but actually, lounging is the big thing.

  Delta Burke

  Shopping, Lounging, Bigs

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• Big things come in small packages!

  Stacey King

  Bigs, Small Packages, Packages

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• The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can; to act as though the eye of opportunity were always upon us. In the hundred-yard race the winner doesn't cross the tape line a dozen strides ahead of the field. He wins by inches. So we find it in ordinary business life. The big things that come our way are seldom the result of long thought or careful planning, but rather they are the fruit of seed planted in the daily routine of our work.

  William Feather

  Life, Business, Eye

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• Cynthia came in quietly and set a cup of tea before him. He kissed her hand, inexpressibly grateful, and she went back into the kitchen. When we view the little things with thanksgiving, even they become big things.

  Jan Karon

  Grateful, Views, Hands

  Jan Karon (2005). “These High, Green Hills”, Penguin Books

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• The only pressure comes form myself. I put pressure on myself at first just because I was intimidated. When I made Amy Poehler laugh, it was a big thing for me. She's been one of my role models since high school, because she started UCB, which is what I wanted to do since high school.

  Aubrey Plaza

  School, Role Models, Laughing

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• It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.

  J. Willard Marriott

  Class, Excellence, Details

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• It's not about one person doing one big thing ... It's about a lot of people doing small things that really make the difference.

  Kevin Jonas

  Differences, People, Bigs

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• Im understanding that, in music, you can really be yourself and people accept you for who you are, that is a big thing to me.

  Joe Jonas

  Being Yourself, People, Understanding

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• The road I've taken to this point has not been easy. Being back on HBO is a big thing, but fighting on HBO in my hometown is huge. To be great you have to fight the best. Chad has beaten the best so these are the type fights I want to take. I will put on a great show for all the fans that come out to Oracle Arena.

  Andre Ward

  Taken, Fighting, Hbo

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  One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways.

  Edith Wharton

  Life And Death, Curiosity, Intellectual

  A Backward Glance "A First Word" (1934)

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• You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it...I always believed that I have something important to say and I said it. That's why I survived because I still believe I've got something to say. ... I don't like overdubs, never liked them. ... The music business doesn't interest me anymore...Don't the people you're around shape the music, is that what you're saying? Everything does. ... I'm not joking around when I've said occasionally, trying to learn how to play a D chord properly has been a very big thing for me.

  Lou Reed

  Believe, Play, People

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• If the Church ever succeeds in doing that big thing, that great thing, that unspeakable thing that God purposes that we should do, it can only be when we enter into that Divine compassion of the Son of God.

  John G. Lake

  Love, Son, Compassion

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• I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God.

  Dominic Savio

  God, Religious, Christian Inspirational

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• My advice to any young person at the beginning of their career is to try to look for the mere outlines of big things with their fresh, untrained and unprejudiced mind.

  Hans Selye

  Careers, Advice, Mind

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• The world is made up of the big things and the small ones. And the part that's so unfair is that we call them 'big' and 'small' because when something happens to you, when you loose something or someone that your really care about, that's all there is. The world may be blowing up around you, but you don't care about that. You don't care about that at all.

  Dakota Fanning

  World, Care, May

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