T Quotes
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“The great thing is the start - to see an opportunity for service, and to start doing it, even though in the beginning you serve but a single customer - and him for nothing.”
Source: Riches Within Your Reach
“The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That's enlarging. I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.”
“The great thing is these days I no longer have to work for a living and that all of the things that I'm able to do where money is paid as compensation for whatever it be, I'm able to donate all of that to charity. That's a wonderful position to find yourself in at the latest stages of your life and I'm proud to have walked the path that I have and I'm proud to be able to continue working and to be able to give away what I earn to some very good causes here in the Southwest.”
“The great thing is to be
cheerful. Nobody can be cheerful in the dark except owls and dormice.”
“The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.”
“The great thing is to become Saints.”
Source: The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri
“The great thing is to know when to speak and when to keep quiet.”
“The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.”
Source: Death in the Afternoon
“The great thing is, Internet allows you to create your own job, not just look for jobs other people are going to give you. And that, combined with the American spirit, I think, is going to help us come out of the recession faster than other countries. And I think it's going to help Africa come out of, you know, a century of slump.”
“The great thing that I appreciate - the fact that my godfather, William 'Sticky' Jackson, was a Tuskegee Airman because my father was first born in Ozark, Alabama. The sacrifices and the commitment of those men made it possible for myself and many others.”
“The great thing that strikes you on looking back is how quickly you have come-how very brief is the span of life on this earth. The warning that one would give, therefore, is that it is well not to fritter it away on things that don't count in the end; nor on the other hand is it good to take life too seriously as some seem to do. Make it a happy life while you have it. That is where success is possible to every man.”
“The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not.”
Source: A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
“The great thing to remember is we can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough.”
Source: The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield: 1922-1923
“The great thing was my teammates really set some great screens to get me open. I just went out there and played basketball.”
“The great thing was that as soon as Aidan and I met we clicked, we instantly knew we were going to get along and the more time we spend together, the more we’ve developed a brotherly bond that’s helped us figure out the dynamic of our characters.”
“The great thing with film is that it doesn't have an ego. It's just a film. Everybody that makes them has an ego, and the problem with awards and stuff like that is that it always affects the egos, and everyone gets stained by it in some way. And that can be fine and very innocent, but it can be horrible as well.”
“The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable.”
Source: Letters to an American Lady
“The great thing, and the only thing, is to adore and praise GOD.”
Source: A search for solitude: pursuing the monk's true life
“The great thing, as a screenwriter, is that you are always proud of what ends up on the screen, you are able to create something in isolation and you have a lot of freedom.”
“The great thing, if one can, is to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one's 'own,' or 'real' life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one's real life -- the life God is sending one day by day.”
“The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.”
Source: The Principles of Psychology
“The great things about siblings, I'm learning, is it turns out you can be as awful to them as you want, and they still have to put up with you.”
Source: The Rise of Renegade X
“The great things are never outdated by time or technological advances. Rather, they are the things that time and technology cannot move forward without.”
“The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.”
“The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very difficult to interpret (understand). Great passions are for the great of souls. Great events can only be seen by people who are on a level with them. We think we can have our visions for nothing. We cannot. Even the finest and most self-sacrificing visions have to be paid for. Strangely enough, that is what makes them fine.”
“The great things you intend to do some time must have a beginning if they are ever to be done, so begin something worthwhile today.”
“The great thinkers have been writing about the suckiness of life since writing was invented.”
Source: Life Is a Lazy Susan of Sh*t Sandwiches: Advice, Inspiration and Laughter from the I've Had It Podcast Hosts
“The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.”
Source: Anthony Comstock: Roundsman of the Lord
“The great Tibetan meditator Gungtang Jampelyang once asked
'What is the difference between a wise man and a fool?'
The difference lies in their intention. A wise person is someone who has a good intention, not someone who merely possesses knowledge.”
Source: Joyful Path of Good Fortune: The Complete Buddhist Path to Enlightenment
“The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.”
Source: The Nature of the Judicial Process
“The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror.”
“The great tradition of America is one where people can worship the way they want to worship. And if they choose not to worship, they're just as patriotic as your neighbor. That is an essential part of why we are a great nation. If you're a Jew or a Christian or a Muslim, you're equally American.”
“The great tragedy in the new feminist theory in America is the loss of a sense of public commitment.... Hungry women are not fed by this, battered women are not sheltered by it, raped women do not find justice in it, gays and lesbians do not achieve legal protections through it.”
“The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth - that we have culture.”
“The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.”
Source: Time to Be in Earnest
“The great tragedy of atheists is that they walk through this world and have no one to thank.”
“The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.”
Source: Mr. Maugham Himself
“The great tragedy of life is not that people set their sights too high and fail to achieve their goals but that they set their sights too low and do.”
“The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.”
“The great trains howling from track to track all night. The taut and telegraphic murmur of ten thousand city wires, drawn most cruelly against a city sky. The rush of city waters, beneath the city streets. The passionate passing of the night's last El.”
“The great triad of enemies for Christian growth contain the world, the flesh, and the devil.”
“The great trick of regarding small departures from the truth as the truth itself - on which is founded the entire integral calculus - is also the basis of our witty speculations, where the whole thing would often collapse if we considered the departures with philosophical rigour.”
“The great trick with a woman is to get rid of her while she think's she's rid of you.”
“The great trouble is that the preachers get the children from six to seven years of age and then it is almost impossible to do anything with them.”
“The great trouble with baseball today is that most of the players are in the game for the money and that's it, not for the love of it, the excitement of it, the thrill of it.”
“The great trouble with most men is that those who have been educated become uneducated just as soon as they stop inquiring and investigating life and its problems for themselves.”
“The great trouble with religion - any religion - is that a religionist, having accepted certain propositions by faith, cannot thereafter judge those propositions by evidence.
One may bask at the warm fire of faith or choose to live in the bleak uncertainty of reason - but one cannot have both.”
“The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate - shall I say third-rate? - mind, Karl Marx.”
“The great trues are too important to be new.”
“The great truth about Christianity is not that we love God - it's that God loves us.”