Great Things Quotes - Page 37

• The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.

  George H. W. Bush

  Honor, George H W Bush

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• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fashion, Meditation, Silence

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.161, Univ of California Press

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• I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

  Thomas Carlyle

  God, Reality, Devil

  Letter to Ralph Waldo Emerson, April 29, 1836

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• Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fashion, Silence, Together

  "Sartor Resartus" by Thomas Carlyle, Book III, (Ch. 3), 1833-1834.

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• You have the ability to choose which way you want to go. You have to believe great things are going to happen in your life. Do everything you can - prepare, pray and achieve - to make it happen.

  Benjamin Carson

  Believe, Want, Way

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• My mother was the most creative, fantastic person and would come up with great things for us to do. She'd buy art supplies and all of us would sit around painting. I was lucky.

  Cher

  Mother, Art, Creative

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• Questioning authority is, I think, a great thing to instill in children. I just didn't have enough of that when I was little.

  Amy Chua

  Children, Thinking, Littles

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• It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Character, Reflection, Words Of Wisdom

  On Old Age VI (transl. W. A. Falconer)

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• To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Life, Execution, Should

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• Having 'Oscar winner' on your tombstone is a great thing.

  George Clooney

  Tombstone, Oscars, Winner

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• For me, the great thing about music is that anybody can do it.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Music, Music Is, Can Do

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• If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Song, Vices, Vice Versa

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• The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards.

  Billy Connolly

  Nuclear, Looks, Comedy

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• When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

  Elisha Cuthbert

  Patience, Looks, Want

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• There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.'

  Louis C. K.

  Old Friends, Doe, Wow

  "Louis C.K. on eating pressure and providing an alternative to The Man". Interview with Nathan Rabin, July 5, 2012.

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• To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me.

  Louis C. K.

  Doe, Exhilarating

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. July 5, 2012.

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• I'm so centered in feeling great about me that I can give great things to my son and my husband and my family.

  Celine Dion

  Husband, Son, Giving

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• Nature's great masterpiece, an elephant; the only harmless great thing.

  John Donne

  Elephants, Masterpiece

  'The Progress of the Soul' (1601) st. 39

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• One of the great things about doing series television is the guest actors that you can have come on and play around with.

  David Duchovny

  Play, Actors, Television

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• To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

  Fred Durst

  Ego, Walks, Confidence In Yourself

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• Being known for musicals is a great thing.

  Zac Efron

  Known

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• That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Freedom, Player, Democracy

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• No great thing is created suddenly.

  Epictetus

  Perseverance, Inspirational Life, Philosophical

  Epictetus (1964). “The Moral Discourses of Epictetus”

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• The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

  Harvey Fierstein

  Suicide, Suicidal, Mean

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

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• Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.

  Charles Fillmore

  Technology, Men, Ideas

  Charles Fillmore (2009). “Prosper”, p.164, The Floating Press

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