Great Things Quotes - Page 16

• There are lots of futurists that spend their whole life trying to figure out who we're going to be in 40, 50, 60, 100 years. That's the great thing about science fiction.

  Jodie Foster

  Years, Trying, Fiction

  "Comic-Con: Matt Damon, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley Talk About Their Characters and the Themes of ELYSIUM". Interview with Christins Radish, collider.com. July 14, 2012.

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• What's bad for the culture is wack rappers that get held in high regard like they're some great thing because it's the flavor of the month, but everybody knows they can't rap. I don't think it's hard, even for somebody who's not hip-hop, to know that that's not good. When you put them up against somebody that can really rhyme, you go, "Okay, I get it. This is what it should sound like."

  Ice T

  Rap, Thinking, Flavor Of The Month

  Source: collider.com

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• If there is anything that gives kingliness to the soul, it is patience. What was the secret of the masters who have accomplished great things, who have inspired many and who have helped many souls? Their secret was patience.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Giving, Soul, Secret

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Art of Personality”, Library of Alexandria

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• The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.

  Seneca the Younger

  Quiet, Speak, Knows

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• Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.

  Joyce Giraud

  Queens, Differences, People

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• The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things they’ve developed together as a group.

  Terry Riley

  Writing, Player, Intuition

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• The inner life of any great thing will be incomprehensible to me until I develop and deepen an inner life of my own.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Inner Life, My Own

  Parker J. Palmer (2012). “The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life”, p.113, John Wiley & Sons

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• I've always thought that one of the the great thing about physics is that you can add more digits to any number and see what happens and nobody can stop you.

  Randall Munroe

  Numbers, Add, Physics

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• Never get a reputation for a small perfection if you are trying for fame in a loftier area. The world can only judge by generals, and it sees that those who pay considerable attention to minutiae seldom have their minds occupied with great things.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Character, Judging, Perfection

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• We recognize the action of God in great things: we exclude it in small. We forget that the Lord of eternity is also the Lord of the hour.

  Sophie Swetchine

  God, Action, Forget

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• Love is a great thing. It is not by chance that in all times and practically among all cultured peoples love in the general senseand the love of a man for his wife are both called love. If love is often cruel or destructive, the reasons lie not in love itself, but in the inequality between people.

  Anton Chekhov

  Love, Lying, Men

  "Note-Book of Anton Chekhov". Book by Anton Chekhov, 1921.

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• God's beneficence streams out from the morning sun, and his love looks down upon us from the starry eyes of midnight. It is his solicitude that wraps us in the air, and the pressure of his hand, so to speak, that keeps our pulses beating. O! it is a great thing to realize that the Divine Power is always working; that nature, in every valve and every artery, is full of the presence of God.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  God, Morning, Eye

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• The generality of men are so bound within the sphere of their circumstances that they have not even the courage to get out of them through their ideas, and if we see a few whom, in a way, speculation over great things makes incapable of mean ones, we find still more with whom the practice of small things takes away the feeling for great ones.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Mean, Men, Practice

  "Reflections and Maxims". Book by Luc de Clapiers, 1746.

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• In order to do great things, it is necessary to live as if one was never to die.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Greatness, Order, Ifs

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• I believe, indeed, that it is more laudable to suffer great misfortunes than to do great things.

  Stanisław I Leszczyński

  Believe, Suffering, Misfortunes

  François duc de La Rochefoucauld, Stanisław I Leszczyński (King of Poland) (1851). “Moral Reflections, Sentences and Maxims of Francis, Duc de la Rochefoucauld”, p.156

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• If, like Jacob, you trust God in little things, He may answer you by great things.

  John Ross Macduff

  Trust, Answers, May

  John Ross MacDuff (1878). “Eventide at Bethel; or, The night-dream of the desert, an Old Testament chapter (Gen. xxviii) in providence and grace”

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• If you are willing, great things are possible to you.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Willing, Ifs

  Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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• The great thing about not being president anymore is I can say whatever I want, about anything. Of course [now], nobody really cares what I say. And now I have the worst of all worlds -- my wife has become the secretary of state, so no one really cares what I say -- unless I mess up.

  William J. Clinton

  Wife, President, World

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• We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Mean, Done, Has Beens

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2015). “The Prince”, p.71, Xist Publishing

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• Great things demand that we either remain silent about them or speak in a great manner: in a great manner, that is-cynically and with innocence.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Demand, Innocence, Speak

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• If you try, you will find it impossible to do one great thing. You can only do many small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Trying, Impossible

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• Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Believe, Self, Thorough

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• A great thing shall I make hereof in Heaven of endless worship and everlasting joys.

  Julian of Norwich

  Joy, Heaven, Worship

  Julian of Norwich, Wyatt North (2014). “Revelations of Divine Love”, p.31, Wyatt North Publishing, LLC

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• Making a difference in your work is not about productivity; it’s about people. When you focus on others and connect with them, you can work together to accomplish great things.

  John C. Maxwell

  Differences, People, Focus

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• Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.

  Fergus Henderson

  Ambition, Fate, Luck

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