We have a great life here in Alaska,
and we're never going back to America again!
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
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Just because I don't care,
doesn't mean I don't understand.
- Matt Groening's TV series The Simpsons.
Hey, Marge. Isn't it great being married
to someone who's recklessly impulsive?
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
There's a couple of things they don't teach you
in Harvard Business School,
one is how to cope with defeat,
the other is how to handle a shotgun.
- The Simpsons Movie (2007)
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Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu
Where there is great love,
there are always miracles.
- Willa Cather
The essence of life is not in
the great victories and grand failures,
but in the simple joys.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The magic words for a great relationship are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To lead a great life:
Dream, Take Action, Repeat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
There are trivial truths and there are great truths.
The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false.
The opposite of a great truth is also true.
- Niels Bohr
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
To the young child, all life is a great adventure -
when did we grow so dull and brittle.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop,
striped and dotted with continents and islands,
flying through space with other stars
all singing and shining together as one,
the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty.
- John Muir
You are important. You are the star -
the only star - of your own life show.
Everyone else is a bit player in the great drama of your life.
Be of service to humanity, but never be anyone's doormat.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If (s)he's an apple and you're an orange,
celebrate your differences -
make a great fruit salad.
Love isn't about being the same -
it's about being sweet with each other.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Small opportunities are often
the beginning of great enterprises.
- Demosthenes
No great thing is created suddenly.
- Epictetus
I am a great believer in luck
and I find that the harder
I work the more I have of it.
- Thomas Jefferson
The Universe is one great kindergarten for man.
Everything that exists has brought
with it its own peculiar lesson.
- Orison Swett Marden
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw
About leadership: No person can be a great leader
unless he takes genuine joy
in the successes of those under him.
- W. A. Nance
Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
- Samuel Johnson
Keep courage. Whatever you do,
do not feel sorry for yourself.
You will win in a great age of opportunity.
- Richard L. Evans
The choice is to work alone to be a little
more successful than the next person,
or to work together for the great betterment of humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I welcome change as a great adventure.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Enthusiasm is the mother of effort,
and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
How do we measure a great leader?
By how he treats the least of these.
- Jesse Jackson
Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
- Albert Einstein
To the philosopher,
death is but the next great adventure.
- J. K. Rowling
To be great is to be misunderstood.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You will become as small as your controlling desire;
as great as your dominant aspiration.
- James Allen
If the misery of the poor be caused
not by the laws of nature,
but by our institutions,
great is our sin.
- Charles Darwin
The water in a vessel is sparkling;
the water in the sea is dark.
The small truth has words which are clear;
the great truth has great silence.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Because of a great love, one is courageous.
- Lao Tzu
It is an act of great Courage to forsake all Blame.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You're off to Great Places!
Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting,
So... get on your way!
- Dr. Seuss
Until you'll willing to look foolish,
you'll never have the possibility of being great.
- Cher
Character is higher than intellect.
A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks
in great and honorable courses
with a sure hope and trust in itself.
- Marcus Tullius Cicero
The great pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do.
- Walter Bagehot
To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France
Love is the great miracle cure.
Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.
- Louise L. Hay
Half a truth is often a great lie.
- Benjamin Franklin
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
The really great secret - Happiness is free.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
These are not dark days -
these are great days.
- Winston Churchill
Dare to dream of your great success.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
Little strokes,
Fell great oaks.
- Benjamin Franklin
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Great leadership is not the visit of an unexpected fate
but rather a flame which is kept burning
in spite of the winds of risk and opposition.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The only good luck many great men ever had was
being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
- Channing Pollock
The wicked leader is he who the people despise.
The good leader is he who the people revere.
The great leader is he who the people say, "We did it ourselves."
- Lao Tzu
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.
- Francois de la Rochefoucauld
As many raindrops join to form a great river of water,
many souls join their highest intent to form
the river of evolved consciousness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces
that incessantly draw great events.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great and good are seldom the same man.
- Winston Churchill
The Two Great Lessons of Life: Choose Love & Trust God.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great opportunities to help others seldom come,
but small ones surround us every day.
- Sally Koch
Great minds have purposes others have wishes.
- Washington Irving
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies,
but even more to stand up to your friends.
- J.K. Rowling
To be oneself is a rare thing, and a great one.
- Ursula K. Le Guin
Great people are those who make others feel
that they, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great works are performed not by strength,
but by perseverance.
- Samuel Johnson
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,
adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. -
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
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