Quotes 2461 till 2480 of 10591.
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Great things are done when men and mountains meet. This is not done by jostling in the street.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
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Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime . Not failure, but low aim is crime.
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Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.
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Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those whose sole concern is not the truth.
Doctor Zhivago -
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.
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Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 130 -
Guys are playing fantasy football; some guys I think even play fantasy baseball. I don't get involved with it. I have five kids; I just don't have time. Not that anything's wrong with the fantasy, but I just don't have time for it with my lifestyle.
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Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only way more mysterious. The whole point is guys are not thinking much. They are just what they appear to be. Tragically.
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Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.
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Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Habits... the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction. You allow them to persist by not seeking any other, better form of satisfying the same needs. Every habit, good or bad, is acquired and learned in the same way - by finding that it is a means of satisfaction.
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Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my King, He would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies.
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