Big Things Quotes - Page 6

• I was always searching, always seeking the next big thing, because that was the thing that was going to make everything all right again. And while I was working toward it, it gave me something to think about other than that thing I couldn't put my finger on. But it always came back.

  Sara Gruen

  Thinking, Next, Fingers

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• How often we expect big things from God without preparing for big things from him

  Beth Moore

  God, Christian, Bigger And Better Things

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• We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Gratitude, Giving, Thankfulness

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.17, SCM Press

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• It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Writing, Effort, Doe

  FaceBook post by Laurell K Hamilton from Jan 24, 2011

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• The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies - we all get that.

  Simon Pegg

  Life And Love, Zombie, Film

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• I want to re-visit everything. We're people and we're so different. I think it would just be nice if it wasn't just like, "Eww, women." That would be a big thing for me.

  Jen Kirkman

  Nice, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• My version of 'Georgia' became the state song of Georgia. That was a big thing for me, man. It really touched me. Here is a state that used to lynch people like me suddenly declaring my version of a song as its state song. That is touching.

  Ray Charles

  Song, Men, People

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• My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Beauty, Kissing, Taste

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• It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.

  Robert Duvall

  Littles, Sometimes, Little Things

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• Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

  Rupert Everett

  Gay, Years, Age

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• Otherness is a big thing for me. I'm always drawn to characters that live lives that I couldn't lead.

  Jodie Foster

  Live Life, Character, Bigs

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• Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.

  Brian Greene

  Jobs, Doe, Fantastic

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• Hollywood 'friends' are only after one thing. They're looking out for the next big thing, and they don't want to miss out on you just in case.

  Naomie Harris

  Missing, Hollywood, Want

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• When I was a kid, politicians wanted to avoid talking about religion if they could. John F. Kennedy couldn't duck the issue, being Catholic and all. So how did he address it? By reminding Americans that religion shouldn't be an issue, that he was concentrating on big things like poverty and hunger and leading the space race.

  Penn Jillette

  Kids, Race, Talking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think just getting up and getting to the desk is a big thing. If you can do that, you're in the zone because there're so many distractions that can stop you. From my bedroom to my office isn't really that far, but I have to go via the kitchen and there's so many things that can stop me and interrupt me.

  Irvine Welsh

  Thinking, Office, Kitchen

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• More often you see Argentine fighters doing big things on a major stage. To be associated with those guys is really an honor and it's great to see so many people from my culture do big things in the sport.

  Chris Algieri

  Sports, People, Guy

  Source: www.boxinginsider.com

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• Every politician - FDR, Lyndon Johnson, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama - they're all conservative by nature. They are part of the big thing and they're moving in a very constrained world.

  Bill Ayers

  Moving, World, Conservative

  Source: thepointmag.com

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• I don't celebrate birthdays much, except for decade-wise. It's not a really big thing.

  John Larroquette

  Wise, Celebrate, Bigs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The big thing about distributed source control is that it makes one of the main issues with SCM's go away - the politics around "who can make changes." BitKeeper showed that you can avoid that by just giving everybody their own source repository.

  Linus Torvalds

  Issues, Giving, Going Away

  Source: www.linux.com

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• Usually, being a volunteer organizer essentially means that I am part of a core base of individuals, that when we start a project - whether it be a big thing like the inauguration or whether it be something that's a longer-term, let's say, educational campaign about a foreign policy issue or a domestic issue - we sit together and we divvy up, and oftentimes it's relevant to different things we do.

  Eugene Puryear

  Educational, Mean, Issues

  Source: www.slate.com

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• The tetrahedron was [ Buckminster Fuller's] big thing. He'd talk about it in the same way Plato talked about angles.

  Paul Laffoley

  Plato, Buckminster Fuller, Way

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• I've done a lotta big things.

  Donald Trump

  Done, Bigs

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• What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have

  Haruki Murakami

  People, Important, Pithy

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• Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can. do big things.

  Herbert Butterfield

  Time, Attitude, Thinking

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• In the enriching of marriage, the big things are the little things. There must be constant appreciation for each other and thoughtful demonstration of gratitude. A couple must encourage and help each other grow. Marriage is a joint quest for the good, the beautiful, and the divine

  James E. Faust

  Love, Marriage, Beautiful

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