Bigs Quotes - Page 32

• When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, "I want you to emerge stronger from this." My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Patriotic, Cities

  "9/11 was 'worst day' and 'the best day'" by Rudy Giuliani, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 7, 2011.

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• Trials make more room for consolation. There is nothing that makes a man have a big heart like a great trial. I always find that little, miserable people, whose hearts are about the size of a grain of mustard seed, never have had much to try them. I have found that those people who have no sympathy for their fellows — who never weep for the sorrows of others — very seldom have had any woes of their own. Great hearts can only be made by great troubles.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Heart, Helping Others, Men

  "Selected Works".

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• I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.

  Jimmy Carter

  Boss, Want, Shots

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• A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Believe, Greatness, Men

  Woodrow Wilson, Mario R. DiNunzio (2006). “Woodrow Wilson: Essential Writings and Speeches of the Scholar-president”, p.355, NYU Press

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• When something enters your life that is so big and so non-negotiable as catastrophic illness, you either go in denial for a while or ultimately you accept it and you make space for it. And in making space for it, you illuminate a lot of things that you normally don't have room for you simply just look at the world differently.

  Michael J. Fox

  Grieving, Space, Denial

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• Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

  Bill Gates

  Experience, Poverty, Activist

  "Column: Great lines from commencement speeches of the past" by Randy Blaser, www.chicagotribune.com. May 18, 2017.

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• I'm trying to show by my actions that you can make a far better world if you just care enough. That's all you have to do. It's no big deal. One act of kindness a day can do it.

  Betty Williams

  Kindness, Trying, World

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• Fifty is a big corner to turn. It used to mean being put out to pasture, but it's the opposite with me. I feel more vibrant; I'm more active than I've ever been. The F-word really is freedom. It's the freedom to have dropped the rock-the rock of addiction, of family, of comparisons with other people. It's being fit and focused and kind of furious.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Mean, Rocks, Opposites

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• For many, many years, I was always whipping up things in order to keep myself busy and moving ever forward and saying, 'What's next? What's next? What's next?' I like the equanimity that comes with my age. I don't have big highs, and I don't have big lows. Even if this job goes away tomorrow, the nonstop ambition is a thing of the past for me. I've mellowed

  Jane Lynch

  Jobs, Moving, Ambition

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• Maybe if you're younger you have more energy - but that's a big maybe. Because at this stage of life, I have more patience, understanding, wisdom, resources - and a husband. I didn't get him until I was 39. But I got a good one.

  Angela Bassett

  Husband, Understanding, Energy

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• The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his image or trademark. The hero created himself; the celebrity is created by the media. The hero was a big man; the celebrity is a big name.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Sports, Hero, Men

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America”, p.61, Vintage

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• Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we can all be heroic in the little things of everyday life. We can do the helpful things, say the kind words, meet our difficulties with courage and high hearts, stand up for the right when the cost is high, keep our word even though it means sacrifice, be a giver instead of a destroyer. Often this quiet, humble heroism is the greatest heroism of all.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Hero, Heart, Humble

  Wilferd Arlan Peterson, Xizhen Wu (1978). “當代的生活藝術”

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• Individuals of all ages can make an important difference in the overall health of our ocean by the actions they take every day. Simple things like picking up trash on the beach, recycling and conserving water can have a big impact on the health of our ocean.

  Ted Danson

  Beach, Ocean, Simple

  "Ocean Ambassadors pledge drive launched". www.cnn.com. September 23, 1998.

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• A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead.

  Carl Jung

  Brain, Hundred, Committees

  Carl Gustav Jung, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

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• I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One minute I was the mark, and with just one swift move, I put the big man in school down. ... Once he was down, the whole atmosphere in the schoolyard changed. A huge cloud seemed to be lifted from me. ... I'd never been aware the cloud was so large.

  Keith Richards

  Bullying, Moving, School

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• The unwearable of high heels is self-evidently all around us, coming to a head at the average wedding reception, a uniformly high-heeled occasion. In our minds, we see it as a serene and elegant gathering of women in their finest, one of the big chances of the year to pretend you're at the Oscars, in your stilettos. In actuality of course, ... there are women staggering around in the unaccustomed vertical, foot-flesh spilling over tight, unkind satin.

  Caitlin Moran

  Fashion, Feet, Clothes

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• When my pals in high school were starting to drink, it always looked unappealing to me. I would be at a big party and see one of the popular girls or football players completely wasted and puking and acting a fool, and think to myself, there is nothing cool about that. I never wanted to be that out of control.

  Kathy Griffin

  Girl, Football, Party

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• Money is not going to organize the disadvantaged, the powerless, or the poor. We need other weapons. That's why the War on Poverty is such a miserable failure. You put out a big pot of money and all you do is fight over it. Then you run out of money and you run out of troops.

  Cesar Chavez

  Running, War, Fighting

  Cesar Chavez, Richard Jay Jensen, John C. Hammerback (2002). “The Words of César Chávez”, p.70, Texas A&M University Press

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• Friendship is a contract in which we render small services in expectation of big ones.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Friendship, Expectations, Contracts

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• I hope we're not just human garbage drifting toward a big sewer. But I think so.

  George Carlin

  Humorous, Thinking, Garbage

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.

  Isaac Asimov

  Differences, Doe, Opinion

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• My faith plays a big part in my life. And when I was answering that question what I was really saying to the person was that I pray a lot. And I do. And my faith is a very, it's very personal. I pray for strength. I pray for wisdom. I pray for our troops in harm's way. I pray for my family. I pray for my little girls.

  George W. Bush

  Girl, Faith, Play

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• When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement in conditioning. Not tomorrow, not the next day, but eventually a big gain is made. Don't look for the big, quick improvement. Seek the small improvement one day at a time. That's the only way it happens - and when it happens, it lasts.

  John Wooden

  Change, Next Day, One Day At A Time

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• You're sweet. I'm going to make sure you kiss me good with those big lips. I'm gonna make you my girlfriend.

  Mike Tyson

  Sweet, Girlfriend, Crazy

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• I paid a worker at New York's zoo to re-open it just for me and Robin (his wife). When we got to the gorilla cage there was 1 big Silverback gorilla there just bullying all the other gorillas. They were so powerful but their eyes were like an innocent infant. I offered the attendant $10,000 to open the cage and let smash that silverback's snotbox! He declined.

  Mike Tyson

  Bullying, Zoos, New York

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