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The wrong of unshapely things is a wrong too great to be told;
I hunger to build them anew and sit on a green knoll apart ... — William Butler Yeats

I have a nice office. I have a nice house ... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies. — Bill Gates

I'd rather do a part because I want to, not because great things are expected of me. — Judi Dench

I have so many great things going on in my life that I don't need to pay attention to some writer. — Paris Hilton

In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things. — Napoleon Bonaparte

If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you'll keep resentment far away. — Confucius

If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way. — Habeeb Akande

None of us, including me, ever do great things. But we can all do small things, with great love, and together we can do something wonderful. — Mother Teresa

Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say — Martin Luther

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are. — Edith Wharton

We can't always expect great things from great men; but we must always expect little things from little men! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible. — Orison Swett Marden

You can do things.
Do you know this?
Do you believe it?
You should.
It's true.
You can do great things. — Richelle E. Goodrich

Only when someone refuses to do certain things will he be capable of doing great things. — Mencius

happiness comes from doing great things-rather than getting great things — Charles Fay

All those who do great things for God will ultimately stand alone. — Michael T. Smith

A great man may not do great things but they do ordinary things greatly. — Mahatma Gandhi

The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York. — Fran Lebowitz

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie. — Will Oldham

One thing that's great about seeing your kids is you see things that you admired in your parents. — Jon Voight

When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again. — T. S. Eliot

One of the great things about the universe is that it's fair. — Alan Bean

I used to say that I wanted to make great art with people I love. Now I have an addendum to that goal: to get things on the air. — Amy Poehler

When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness. — Bob Hope

Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead. — Doug MacLeod

When things mean a very great deal to you, exciting anticipation just isn't safe. — Dodie Smith

All great and precious things are lonely. — John Steinbeck

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence. — W. Somerset Maugham

Together we can do great things. — Mother Teresa

I started to realize how many great things could happen by confronting the things that scare you most. — David Archuleta

(Egypt) is a great place for contrasts: splendid things gleam in the dust. — Gustave Flaubert

It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs. — Pliny The Elder

Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great; All things give way before it, soon or late. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

They've called me a great many things over the years, but my name is Nefarian Serpine. — Derek Landy

On the weekends, I do the usual parental things, going to the boys' football tournaments or getting out for a hike along the Great Wall. — Zhang Xin

It is so small a thing, the life of a man, and yet there is time to do great things, fragments of a common task. — Paul Gauguin

Let us toast to good things about bad times, to old friends and new enemies, to great tragedies and small pleasures! — P.M. Steffen

Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work. — E. M. Forster

Keep your head up, your eyes forward & your heart open. Great things are coming to you ahead on the roads of your life. — Timothy Pina

One of the great things about wrestling is how it interrogates this silly idea that you have one authentic self. — John Darnielle

How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things? — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people ... Religion, Politics, and The Great Pumpkin. — Charles M. Schulz

David Jacobs is a great influence on my life, has taught me so much about so many things. — Joan Van Ark

Inspiring words are potent, and sometimes dangerous, things. They can inspire idiots and devils as well as great man. — Richard Brookhiser

Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I can't look at things in the simple, large way that great poets do. — Isaac Rosenberg

God is the great janitor of the universe. Why things don't work is that we have a janitor in charge, and we keep looking for the landlord. — Richard Kadrey

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. — Benjamin Disraeli

We become anxious when we take a godlike stance, occupying ourselves with things too great for us. — Paul E. Miller

There is a time for some things, and a time for all things; a time for great things, and a time for small things. — Miguel De Cervantes

Great things astonish us, and small dishearten us. Custom makes both familiar. — Jean De La Bruyere

Be faithful in the little things, for in them our strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small. — Mother Teresa

Kids in general make things fresh and alive and they have this great appreciation for, Holy mackerel, we're making a movie! — James L. Brooks

There are a great many more good things than bad things to do. — George MacDonald

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist. — Oscar Wilde

A Warrior knows that a great dream is made up of many different things, just as the light from the sun is the sum of its millions of rays. — Paulo Coelho

Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us. — Vincent Voiture

Yes, these business people have great energy. There's a question as to what's burned to produce it and what things we can and can't burn. — Saul Bellow

It took him a long, miserable time before he realized the truth of things: There is a great deal of difference between a penis and a heart. — Patrick Rothfuss

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things. — Henri Frederic Amiel

A blanket is great for covering things, like the dead guy, I just killed with this brick. — Nicole McKay

Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done. — Simon Sinek

When you have an elevated spirit and a miserable heart, you write great things and do the poor. — Albert Camus

We are called to witness, always with our lives and sometimes with our words, to the great things God has done for us. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Gary Bauer has done great things, ... I want to promise you again, you may agree with me, you may disagree with me, but I will do great things. — John McCain

CBS is proud to have been the home of David Letterman since 1993. He is truly one of the great talents of our time, and we hope things work out. — Leslie Moonves

Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others. — Okakura Kakuzo

A great moment of clarity when I realized I'm dying. There's no reason to wait to do the things we want to do. — John Tesh

That's the great thing about being a wizard. I can always tell myself, honestly, that things could be worse. — Jim Butcher

Make yourself reachable for all the great things that want to reach you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Some things are great, but have little efficacy in them, but this mercy is a cordial to your drooping spirits; — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

For the great doesn't happen through impulse alone, and is a succession of little things that are brought together. — Vincent Van Gogh

You should make great things, not promising great things. — Pythagoras

Great innovation only happens when people aren't afraid to do things differently. — Georg Cantor

I went into the world, threw myself into the world, and great things came out of it. — Fran Drescher

Things written down can cause a great deal of harm. All too often, people don't consider that. — Margaret Atwood

I love to laugh, and laughter is one of my favorite things. When you have a really good laugh, you feel great afterwards. — Bill Engvall

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things. — Gunter Grass

I'm proof that great things can happen to ordinary people if they work hard and never give up. — Orel Hershiser

Great things only happen when we love the thing we are doing. — Debasish Mridha

Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times. — Karen Mills

Those who achieve great things are the ones willing to be scared but not scared off. If you dream big and take risks, impossible becomes just a word. — Richard Branson

The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations. — Albert Ellis

Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise. — William James

It is a great imperfection to complain unceasingly of little things. — Saint Francis De Sales

Thus saith the Lord, the Maker of it, Call unto Me and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not. — A.B. Simpson

God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things. — Pope Francis

If you are stuck only at your culture, you will miss thousands of good things in other cultures; and more importantly, you will miss many truths! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen
and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible. — Parker J. Palmer

It is a great bond to dislike the same things. — George Santayana

Imagine! In each of us lies the potential to do superhuman things. Feats of great physical daring, art, science. The ability to defy laws of nature. — Peter Lerangis

I have been able to do a lot of great things during my career! — Tate Donovan

I gained a great deal from the period during which I worked in theater and I value those things a great deal. — Asghar Farhadi

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Take heart! Many great things have been done by people in poor mental health. — Ashleigh Brilliant

I always say it was great for God to send his only son, but I'm waiting for him to send his only daughter. Then things will really be great. — Candace Pert

You have to really dive deep back into yourself and get rid of so much modern analytical categorization. It's one of the great things poetry does. — Robert Morgan

I know a great number of things, though never all at once or for very long. — Thomm Quackenbush

Great things have been effected by a few men well conducted; — George Rogers Clark

There are so many great artists that are doing interesting things, that I don't want to focus on boring people. — Kathleen Hanna