Related Quotes
greatness men mind
Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds. Charles Caleb Colton
greatness deserving-it mind
Great minds had rather deserve contemporaneous applause without obtaining it, than obtain without deserving it. If it follow them it is well, but they will not deviate to follow it.
greatness men
In life we shall find many men that are great, and some that are good, but very few men that are both great and good.
greatness men too-much
Speaking generally, no man appears great to his contemporaries, for the same reason that no man is great to his servants--both know too much of him.
great-expectations secret tears
The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away. Charles Dickens
great-expectations strange melancholy
So new to him," she muttered, "so old to me; so strange to him, so familiar to me; so melancholy to both of us!...
great-expectations may done
But, in this separation I associate you only with the good and I will faithfully hold you to that always, for you have done far more good than harm, let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
great-expectations may let-me
Let me feel now what sharp distress I may.
greatness excellence littles
True greatness consists in being great in little things. Charles Simmons
jobs words-of-wisdom deception
"There is no deception now, Mr. Weller. Tears," said Job, with a look of momentary slyness, "tears are not the only proofs of distress, nor the best ones."
jobs character air
"I know quite enough of myself," said Bella, with a charming air of being inclined to give herself up as a bad job, "and I don't improve upon acquaintance..."
jobs reading years
I wanted an agent who would actually sell stuff. After two British agents failed comprehensively, I was reading Locus (the SF field's trade journal) and noticed a press release about an experienced editor leaving her job to join an agent in setting up a new agency. And I went "aha!" - because what you need is an agent who knows the industry but who doesn't have a huge list of famous clients whose needs will inevitably be put ahead of you. So I emailed her, and ... well, 11 years later I am the client listed at the top of her masthead! Charles Stross
jobs reading writing
What I read: while I'm writing, I tend to go off reading fiction for relaxation - especially the challenging stuff. It's too much like the day job.
jobs moving careers
It's time to question a job or career move when it seems like most energy is devoted to making things appear other than what they really are. Alan Watts
jobs film hard
Film-making is a physically hard job. Alan Parker
jobs asking way
I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available. Alan Patricof
jobs two together
One thing I will say - my job gets harder and harder. The more you understand about what you are capable of, the less the instrument can do it physically. It's an inverse equation, if that's the right phrase. I just slammed those two words together. It sounded right. Alan Rickman
jobs home feet
I have a photograph at home of Fred Astaire from the knees down with his feet crossed. It's kind of inspiring because it reminds me his feet were bleeding at the end of rehearsals. Yet when you watch him, all you see is freedom. It's a reminder of what the job is about in general, not just being in musicals.
kyle
Make no mistake, Kyle is responsible for the way he reacted, Brian Billick
kyle surround
We've got to surround Kyle with a lot more in the bullpen. Brian Cashman
kyle pressure side stepped wearing
I think we started wearing them down a bit. We said on the side that our pressure was going to get a goal, and fortunately for us, Kyle stepped up. Ian Wale
kyle living
Kyle was great. He was my only living child.
kyle positive seems
Kyle seems to be doing fine. Everything's positive there. Larry Coker
kyle playing
Kyle Orton was playing better than any of the quarterbacks, Gregg Williams
kyle needs situation stronger
Kyle needs to go through a situation like that, ... From the way I see it, he'll come back stronger from it. Lovie Smith
kyle somewhere top
Kyle is probably going to be somewhere around the top 10 most of the day.
kyle mass pin race remarkable start toward
Kyle had a remarkable race in the mass start classic. He started in the 57th pin position, which is toward the back of the pack.
looked man pieces
There are biographies, I looked at a lot of photographs of him, I heard his voice over and over and over again. You get in there and get to know the man by all of those pieces of information. David Strathairn
looked plays stopped worthy
We stopped for some plays that weren't worthy of being looked at.
looked
When I looked at the other artists when I first started at Marvel, I was surrounded by giants. It was very intimidating.
looked people
When I was a kid, I always looked up to people like B.B. King and Ray Charles. Daryl Hall
looked lots saw stands wrestle
When I was a freshman, I didn't wrestle as well here as I thought I could. I looked up at the stands and saw lots of people.
looked rearview united
United just looked in the rearview mirror, and they do not want to go back from where they came.
looked
Yes, I am physical but never go looking for fights. I have been in my share of them but never looked for them. Dave Bautista
looked looking seeing weird
Man, I looked up at the clock, was that right? That was kind of weird too, looking up there and seeing they only had 30.
looked paradigm realized shifted telescope universe
When I looked through that first telescope my paradigm shifted up course. I realized it was a really big universe and I wanted to know all about it.
people may medical
It is astonishing how much more anxious people are to lengthen life than to improve it; and as misers often lose large sums of money in attempting to make more, so do hypochondriacs squander large sums of time in search of nostrums by which they vainly hope they may get more time to squander.
people solitude multitudes
A multitude of people and yet solitude.
people governing whole
My faith in the people governing is, on the whole, infinitesimal; my faith in the people governed is, on the whole, illimitable.
people words-of-wisdom selfishness
Others had been a little wild, which was not to be wondered at, and not very blamable; but, he had made a lamentation and uproar which it was dangerous for the people to hear, as there is always contagion in weakness and selfishness.
people words-of-wisdom want
Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.
people next cleanliness
Cleanliness is next to Godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.
people scary alive
I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy in their graves, keep the day they died upon.
people enemy
Some people are nobody's enemies but their own
people romance wonder-woman
Superman/Wonder Woman, people expected, I guess, a lot of romance, or maybe something that wasnt emotionally deep. Who knows? Charles Soule