Brilliant Quotes - Page 24

• It was Tottenham at home. I thought: 'Please don't go on about Tottenham, we all know what Tottenham are about. They are nice and tidy but we'll f****** do them.' Alex came in and said: 'Lads, it's only Tottenham.' And that was it! Brilliant!

  Roy Keane

  Football, Nice, Home

  "Roy Keane says he and Alex Ferguson were on same wavelength at United" by James Riach, www.theguardian.com. October 20, 2014.

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• So impressed with John Mitchell. His response to this attack has been courageous and brilliant! I wish him and the Lions all the best!

  Luke Watson

  Wish, Lions, Rugby

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• Ronaldo is better than George Best and Denis Law, who were two brilliant and great players in the history of United.

  Johan Cruijff

  Cristiano Ronaldo, Player, Law

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• Life, like any other exciting story, is bound to have painful and scary parts, boring and depressing parts, but it's a brilliant story, and it's up to us how it will turn out in the end.

  Bo Lozoff

  Life, Depressing, Scary

  Bo Lozoff (2015). “We're All Doing Time: A Guide for Getting Free”, p.34, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Love is a brilliant illustration of a principle everywhere discoverable: namely, that human reason lives by turning the friction of material forces into the light of ideal goods.

  George Santayana

  Love, Light, Illustration

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.27, MIT Press

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• I have a good friend, Rudolf Serkin, the pianist, a very sensitive man. I was talking to him one day backstage after a concert and I told him that I thought he had played particularly sensitively that day. I said, "You know, many pianists are brilliant, they strike the keys so well, but somehow you are different." "Ah," he said, "I don't think you should ever strike a key. You should pull the keys with your fingers."

  Andrew Wyeth

  Art, Good Friend, Men

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• Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind.

  George Washington

  Integrity, Accomplishment, Gains

  George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.308

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• Just knows, and knows no more, her Bible true,- A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew.

  William Cowper

  Truth, Frenchmen, Knows

  William Cowper (1874). “The poetical works of William Cowper, ed: with notes and biographical introd. by William Benham”, p.82

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• If we must have heroes and wars whereinto make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with the wrong, no hero so fit to be sung, as he who has gained the bloodless VICTORY of truth and mercy.

  Isambard Kingdom Brunel

  Truth, War, Hero

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• Great individuals and great performances build a team, which produces brilliant performances.

  Sachin Tendulkar

  Life, Success, Team

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• You're grumpy and broody and secretive all the time. You're no joy to live with, I can tell you that!""I smile sometimes. I even laughed about your . . . hat.""MacHalo," I corrected tightly. "It's a brilliant invention, and it means I don't need you or V'lane to keep my safe from Shades, and that, Jericho Barrons, is worth its weight in gold: not needing either of you for something!

  Karen Marie Moning

  Mean, Joy, I Don't Need You

  Karen Marie Moning (2016). “The Fever Series 7-Book Bundle: Darkfever, Bloodfever, Faefever, Dreamfever, Shadowfever, Iced, Burned”, p.529, Dell

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• The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

  James Gould Cozzens

  People, Dumb, Innocent

  James Gould Cozzens, Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (1978). “Just representations: a James Gould Cozzens reader”, Southern Illinois Univ Pr

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• Brilliant ideas are gifts from God, sent to you in answer to your prayers . . . and all you need to do is act upon the ideas, one divinely guided step at a time. If you want to validate if an idea is truly heavensent, ask your angels to send you clear signs.

  Doreen Virtue

  Prayer, Angel, Ideas

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Sep 01, 2014

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• To an Earthkeeper, love is not a feeling or something your barter with. Love is the essence of who you are, and it radiates from you as a brilliant aura: You become love, practice fearlessness, and attain enlightenment.

  Alberto Villoldo

  Love Is, Essence, Practice

  FaceBook post by Alberto Villoldo from Mar 14, 2014

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• There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

  Pablo Picasso

  Photography, Photographer, Great Photography

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• A brilliant idea doesn't guarantee a successful invention. Real magic comes from a brilliant idea combined with willpower, tenacity, and a willingness to make mistakes.

  Lori Greiner

  Real, Mistake, Successful

  "20 Quotes From the Two Women of 'Shark Tank'" by John Brandon, www.inc.com. January 20, 2015.

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• I found that Steve's passion for wildlife and willingness to lay his life on the line so exciting. What you have in our academic arena is a lot of people who are brilliant at what they do-and boring as the day is long.

  Terri Irwin

  Passion, Long, People

  "Interview with Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin - Part 4: Adrenaline Junkie?". Interview with Sarah Simpson, www.scientificamerican.com. March 26, 2001.

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• The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility.

  Aleister Crowley

  Names, Holy Grail, Quests

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Little Essays Toward Truth”

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• Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future.

  Nelson Mandela

  Children, Exciting, Disabled

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.117, Pan Macmillan

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• Beloveds, you are fine, just the way you are! Perfect in your imperfection! You are divine! Growing brighter and more brilliant each day, you can accept the truth of who you are.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Perfect, Each Day, Growing

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jun 30, 2015

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• Peter Joseph is asking the questions and proposing the possible solutions that we should be demanding from the elected leaders of this crazy world.
  His brilliant analysis of this ridiculous system we're operating under is one of the most important voices for change in this generation.

  Joe Rogan

  Crazy, Voice, Leader

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• My love for him was so exquisitely pure that if we all were capable of giving and receiving such a beautiful gift the world would be a far more brilliant place; I think we'd all be poets.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Love, Beautiful, Dream

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• The waste, the insane freaks of these money men, the cynicism and egotism of their life... I'll show that they are not brilliant, not romantic, not delightful, not intelligent.

  Christina Stead

  Art, Intelligent, Men

  Christina Stead (2012). “House of All Nations”, p.126, Open Road Media

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• People often say to me - how clever you are! How brilliant to be able to go from ballet to theatre as you do. I answer that it is not clever at all. It is the gift of looking at oneself coolly, of calculating the future objectively. I could see the danger signals as far as ballet was concerned before anyone else did, that's all.

  Robert Helpmann

  Art, Clever, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Heart, People, Mind

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