A Quotes
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“A great deal of what many Americans hold dear is nowhere written on those four pages of parchment, or in any of the amendments. What has made the Constitution durable is the same as what makes it demanding: the fact that so much was left out.”
“A great deal of what passes by the name of patriotism in these days consists of the merest bigotry and narrow-mindedness; exhibiting itself in national prejudice, national conceit, and national hatred. It does not show itself in deeds, but in boastings--in howlings, gesticulations, and shrieking helplessly for help--in flying flags and singing songs--and in perpetual grinding at the hurdy-gurdy of long-dead grievances and long-remedied wrongs. To be infested by such a patriotism as this is perhaps among the greatest curses that can befall any country.”
Source: Character
“A great deal of what people say, think, or do is actually motivate by fear, which of course is always linked with having your focus on the future and being out of touch with the Now. As there are no problems in the Now, there is no fear either.”
Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
“A great deal of wisdom lies dormant in the Word of God. When read with the sole intent of quenching a spiritual thirst, amazing things happen.”
Source: The Infallible Word of God: 365 Inspirational Quotes
“A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.”
“A great deal remains to be done in Afghanistan and the jury is out as to whether the international community has the commitment and the patience to see the rebuilding process through.”
“A great deal that I no longer continue, within myself, continues there on its own.”
“A great deal; you are good to those who are good to you. It is all I ever desire to be. If people were always kind and obedient to those who are cruel and unjust, the wicked people would have it all their own way; they would never feel afraid, and so they would never alter, but would grow worse and worse. When we are struck at without a reason, we should strike back again very hard; I am sure we should - so hard as to teach the person who struck us never to do it again.”
Source: Jane Eyre
“A great defensive effort. The one thing we have to do is make it hard for people to beat us. We're not worried about winning and losing, we just have to make the game hard”
“A great democracy doesn't make it harder to vote than to buy an assault weapon.”
“A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy.”
Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations
“A great democratic revolution is taking place in our midst.”
“A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.”
“A great Dermalogica facial every few weeks, and lots of sleep over the weekend are essentials. I also drink lots of water which really helps to hydrate the skin and keep it looking fresh.”
“A great designer does not seek acceptance. He challenges popularity, and by the force of his convictions renders popular in the end what the public hates at first sight.”
“A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!”
“A great dinner must include not only yummy food, but good conversation.”
“A great director, first, is highly intelligent. And he is also a dedicated and willing to work hard. Now those are easy things to identify. The third is the creativity, and that is very difficult to identify in advance. This is why so many of the directors who have started with me were my assistant - the first one was Francis Ford Coppola.”
“A great disaster had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that's why all this has happened.”
“A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.”
Source: Jawaharlal Nehru, an anthology
“A great discipline comes with knowing that everyone's very focused. I've never shot a scene thinking, I wonder if this will make it. Every scene I shoot, I know that it's going to make it into the final cut.”
“A great discovery is a fact whose appearance in science gives rise to shining ideas, whose light dispels many obscurities and shows us new paths.”
Source: An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine
“A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.”
Source: How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method
“A great discovery solves a great problem, but there is a grain of discovery in the solution of any problem. Your problem may be modest, but if it challenges your curiosity and brings into play your inventive faculties, and if you solve it by your own means, you may experience the tension and enjoy the triumph of discovery.”
“A great doctor kills more people than a great general.”
“A great door opened by God for work, but while I'm doing the work, all Hell breaks loose. Oh! The idea that when God opens a door and He's with you, you don't have to fight. Oh, what a joke. That is a joke. In fact, if you don't feel the devil fighting against you, that's a bad sign.”
“A great dowry is a bed full of brables.
[A great dowry is a bed full of brambles.]”
“A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. "I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way.”
“A great dress can make you remember what is beautiful about life.”
“A great editor is the most valuable thing you can have as an artist because, as you said, sometimes you get too close to something. I think, apart from your talent, that's why you have the career you have - because you have great people behind you.”
“A great effort is to find and understand first yourself; you may understand others.”
“A great elk lay dead on the long worktable in the centre of the dark space, the arrow through its throat illumined by the watery light leaking through the small windows. Blood pooled on the grey stone floor, its drip the only sound.
The only sound as Tamlin sat in a chair before it. Staring at the felled beast.
'Your dinner is leaking,' I told him by way of greeting, nodding toward the mess gathering on the floor.
No reply. The High Lord of Spring didn't so much as up at me.”
Source: A Court of Frost and Starlight
“A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.”
Source: An Essay on the Principle of Population and Other Writings
“A great emotion is too selfish ; it takes into itself all the blood of the spirit, and the congestion leaves the hands too cold to write. Three sorts of emotion produce great poetry - strong but quick emotions, seized upon for art as soon as they have passed, but not before they have passed ; strong and deep emotions in their remembrance along time after ; and false emotions, that is to say, emotions felt in the intellect. Not insincerity, but a translated sincerity, is the basis of all art.”
Source: Always Astonished: Selected Prose
“A great empire and little minds go ill together.”
“A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.”
Source: The Life and Essays of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: Carefully Collected from His Own Papers, Containing All His Miscellaneous Pieces
“A great error is more easily propagated than a great truth, because it is easier to believe, than to reason, and because people prefer the marvels of romances to the simplicity of history.”
Source: The Origin of all Religious Worship
“A great estate is a great disadvantage to those who do not know how to use it, for nothing is more common than to see wealthy persons live scandalously and miserably; riches do them no service in order to virtue and happiness; therefore 'tis precept and principle, not an estate, that makes a man good for something.”
“A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.”
“A great event manager makes even the host feel like a guest.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“A great factory with the machinery all working and revolving with absolute and rhythmic regularity and with the men all driven by one impulse, and moving in unison as though a constituent part of the mighty machine, is one of the most inspiring examples of directed force that the world knows. I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.”
Source: John Marvel, Assistant
“A great family consists of a father who is a hard nut to crack, a mother who is a hard nut to chew and children who are hard nuts to swallow.”
“A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion.”
Source: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: The rule and exercises of holy living and dying
“A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.”
“A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”
“A great flood of aromas swamped the noise, thick as soup and foaming with flavors: powdery sugars and crystallized fruit, dank slabs of beef and boiling cabbage, sweating onions and steaming beets. Fronts of fresh-baked bread rolled forward then sweeter cakes. Behind the whiffs of roasting capons and braising bacon came the great smoke-blackened ham which hung in the hearth. Fish was poaching somewhere in a savory liquor at once sweet and tart, its aromas braided in twirling spirals... The silphium, thought John. A moment later it was lost in the tangle of scents that rose from the other pots, pans and great steaming urns. The rich stew of smells and tastes reaching into his memory to haul up dishes and platters.”
Source: John Saturnall's Feast
“A great football team is the right balance and the right mixture of players. Good leaders, good communicators and good technicians. You need people that are strategically astute. People need passion, desire and most importantly, a willingness to keep learning.”
“A great fortune enslaves its owner.”
“A great fortune is a great slavery.”
“A great frame inferred to encapsulate Musk’s hiring philosophy is the ‘two-hands test’. It means the candidate must have first-hand experience and a hands-on expertise in testing. Passing the two-hands test proves you have skin in the game.”
Source: Innovate Like Elon Musk: Easily Participate in Innovation with Guidelines from Tesla and SpaceX: A Simple Understanding of First Principle Thinking and Vertical Integration