Quotes of: Great-discovery Keyword

What’s that around your neck?” asked Emily. “It’s a golden star.” Said Reed. “What did you get it for?” “Chemistry class.” “What’s the star for?” the shadow asked, Usually stars represent a straight A student. “You get it fo...

Rumi Antoinette

Yoda: I am wondering, why are you here? Luke: I'm looking for someone. Yoda: Looking? Found someone, you have, I would say, hmmm? Luke: Right... Yoda: Help you I can. Yes, mmmm. Luke: I don't think so. I'm looking for a great warrior. Yoda: Ohhh. Gre...

Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

P.L. Travers: The rumor is that this is to be your Mr. Van Dyke, is it? Richard Sherman: We hope so. P.L. Travers: Hmm. We'll see about that, he's totally wrong. Totally and utterly. Robert Sherman: Dick is one of the greats! P.L. Travers: Dick Van D...

Saving Mr. Banks

It is true that a great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them. But it is a great mistake to suppose that he will do this better for being ignorant of the traditions.

Considerations on Representative Government

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

Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance

(The psuedoscience of planning seems almost neurotic in its determination to imitate empiric failure and ignore empiric success.)

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

the greatest asset one may be able to possess is a great mind

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

I have lost and loved and won and cried myself to the person I am today.

Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps

The great thing about Ayurveda is that its treatments always yield side benefits, not side effects.

Essential Ayurveda: What It Is and What It Can Do for You

Hi, I’m at the Speedway at Eighty-sixth and Ditch, and I need an ambulance. The great love of my life has a malfunctioning G-tube.

The Fault in Our Stars

Again, we find that the space standards of twenty-first century luxury are below the required minimum for dockworkers in 1962.

A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain

I'm sorry, Gemma. But we can't live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.

A Great and Terrible Beauty

By reading older books we get a taste of the conversation of Heaven.

The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization

Even the worst humans in the history of the world didn’t grow up thinking, "I hope I slaughter an entire race of people when I’m an adult".

The Great Deceiver

Why do humans exist? A major part of the answer: because Pikaia Gracilens survived the Burgess decimation.

God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

Agile retrospectives are a great way to continuously improve the way of working.

Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives - A Toolbox of Retrospective Exercises

If I told you, you might be forced to lie about it. Not that you aren't really good at it, but why put an old man in that position?

The Great Escape

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

The Great Gatsby

...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires

The Great Gatsby

Medeniyet yok oluyor" diye bağırdı Tom öfkeyle, "Ben artık bu konuda karamsarım. Şu Goddard denen adamın yazdığı The Rise of the Coloured Empires adlı kitabı okudun mu?

The Great Gatsby

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

The Great Gatsby