Great Moments Quotes - Page 2

• If white and black and red and brown can come together to focus our energies on overcoming the racial malaise that persists, then this will have been a great moment.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  White, Focus, Black

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• There have been so many great moments in golf that you even forget some of them.

  Dan Jenkins

  Golf, Forget, Moments

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• I studied in Britain and spent great moments of my life there as a student living in Belsize Park. I admire the British trait of the stiff upper lip in the face of adversity. My wife studied in Britain too and both of us have many friends there.

  Asif Ali Zardari

  Adversity, Wife, Parks

  Interview with Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. September 28, 2000.

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• Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay.

  Grant Wood

  Boys, Triumph, Riding

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• Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is that he maycommunicate a thought or an impression to his reader without the reader's realizing that he has been dragged through a series of hazardous or grotesque syntactical situations. In photography the goal seems to be to prove beyond a doubt that the cameraman, in his great moment of creation, was either hanging by his heels from the rafters or was wedged under the floor with his lens in a knothole.

  E. B. White

  Photography, Art, Writing

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• To me, writing is much freer than dancing. With writing, you could do it whenever you wanted. You didnt have to do little exercises and stay in shape. You could have great moments of inspiration that advanced the story. In dance, unless youre going to choreograph things yourself, youre at the service of someone else.

  Lorrie Moore

  Inspiration, Writing, Exercise

  "Community life" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. June 6, 2008.

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• The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity-a unity of purpose and endeavour-the single torch passing from hand to hand through the centuries; and the great moments of science when, after long labour, the pioneers saw their accumulated facts falling into a significant order-sometimes in the form of a law that revolutionised the whole world of thought-have an intense human interest, and belong essentially to the creative imagination of poetry.

  Alfred Noyes

  Fall, Science, Epic

  Alfred Noyes (1926). “Watchers of the Sky”, p.2, Library of Alexandria

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• There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script.

  James Wolk

  Beautiful, Teacher, Drama

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• We always need to remember that behind almost every great moment in history, there are heroic people doing really boring and frustrating things for a prolonged period of time.

  Gail Collins

  People, Needs, Heroic

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• a great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness - or their own.

  Margaret Deland

  Hero, Greatness, People

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• The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Eye, Opportunity, Hands

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1867). “Pendennis”, p.463

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• In this day and age of things moving so, so fast, we still long for things to stop, and we as a society love the still image. Every time there is some terrible or great moment, we remember the stills.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Moving, Long, Age

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• This is an exciting world. It is cram packed with opportunity. Great moments await around every corner.

  Richard DeVos

  Opportunity, World, Exhilaration

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• You know it's only 50 miles but I've relished every moment of the longer route to get here. Thanks for letting me reflect on those great moments. Thank you.

  Don Shula

  Football, Nfl, Thanks

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• Beloved youth, you will have your trials and temptations through which you must pass, but there are great moments of eternity which lie ahead. You have our love and our confidence. We pray that you will be prepared for the reins of leadership. We say to you, "Arise and shine forth" and be a light unto the world, a standard to others.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Leadership, Lying, Light

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• It is a great moment in every freak's life when he or she finds out that at least they are not the only one.

  Mat Johnson

  Freak, Moments

  Mat Johnson (2011). “Pym: A Novel”, p.138, Spiegel & Grau

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• Most of life is hell. It’s filed with failure and loss. People disappoint you. Dreams don’t work out. Hearts get broken. Innocent journalists die. And the best moments of life, when everything comes together, are few and fleeting. But you’ll never get to the next great moment if you don’t keep going. So that’s what I do. I keep going.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Dream, Heart, Loss

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• Good habits are developed in the workshops of our daily lives. It is not in the great moments of test and trial that character is built. That is only when it is displayed. The habits that direct our lives and form our character are fashioned in the often uneventful, commonplace routine of life.

  Delbert L. Stapley

  Character, Routine, Trials

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• However, I began to submit poems to British magazines, and some were accepted. It was a great moment to see my first poems published. It felt like entering a tradition.

  Helen Dunmore

  Entering, Magazines, Firsts

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• A belief may be larger than a fact. A faith that is overdefined is the very faith most likely to prove inadequate to the great moments of life.

  Vannevar Bush

  May, Facts, Belief

  "Science is Not Enough" by Vannevar Bush, (pp. 28-29), 1967.

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• Sometimes it has been of great moment while the fight is going on, to disseminate words that pronounce the enemies' captain to be dead, or to have been conquered by another part of the army. Many times this has given victory to him who used it.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Fighting

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• The ordinary is ultimately what moves us most deeply. It's what touches us, and it's what we most recognize, in great moments of art.

  Lorraine Toussaint

  Art, Moving, Ordinary

  Source: collider.com

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• There's no reason to tweet when you are in the midst of a great moment; they are few and far between. So pay attention to it, as you probably won't see it again. You can always tweet later, if you're lucky enough to be part of history and you think 140 characters can do credit to someone like Martin Luther King or to the speech he made that day.

  Lewis Black

  Character, Thinking, Lucky

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think great movies have to have some great moments in them to bring them up to that level.

  Clint Eastwood

  Thinking, Levels, Moments

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• I guess a great movie would be one that has the most great moments in it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Would Be, Moments

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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