Quotes of: Great-enemy Keyword

Those who don't take themselves too seriously have marriages that seem to just be better.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

Making love is not equivalent to love. But not making love is most certainly a waste. We didn't want to be wasteful.

Happy Wives Club: One Woman's Worldwide Search for the Secrets of a Great Marriage

Hundreds of young barefoot, long-haired, newly converted believers flocked to the church, and they brought their guitars with them.

The Story of Our Songs: Drawing Strength from the Great Hymns of Our Faith

We know we are a species obsessed with itself and its own past and origins. We know we are capable of removing from the sanctuary of the earth shards and fragments, and gently placing them in museums. Great museums in great cities—the hallmarks of ...

Sightlines

Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, a...

Middlemarch

You talk as if a god had made the Machine," cried the other. "I believe that you pray to it when you are unhappy. Men made it, do not forget that. Great men, but men. The Machine is much, but not everything.

The Machine Stops

No, I don't admire the genius. But I admire and love the result of the genius's activity in the world, of which the great man is only the poor necessary tool, only, so to speak, the paltry awl to bore with.

Mysteries

An oldtimer is a person who's had many interesting experiences, some of them true.

One man's Montana: Bob Gilluly's best newspaper yarns, Great Falls Tribune, 1983-1999

A legalist is not someone who places divine law above all else. A legalist is someone who places human law above all else.

Limited Church: Unlimited Kingdom: Uniting Church and Family in the Great Commission

The myosin in our own skeletal muscles is more closely related to the myosin driving the flight muscles of that irritating housefly buzzing around your head than it is to the myosin in the muscles of your own sphincters

Life Ascending: The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution

All the great words, it seemed to Connie were cancelled, for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now and dying from day to day.

Lady Chatterley's Lover

Every now and then the city shook its soul out. It assailed you with an image, or a day, or a crime, or a terror, or a beauty so difficult to wrapy your mind around that you had to shake your head in disbelief.

Let the Great World Spin

Rather he consoled himself with the fact that, in the real world, when he looked closely into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a little light all the same.

Let the Great World Spin

They told me Corrigan smashed all the bones in his chest when he hit the steering wheel. I thought, Well at least in heaven his Spanish chick'll be able to reach in and grab his heart.

Let the Great World Spin

Don't you sometimes feel bewildered when you think of the millions of things that put life together?' ... 'I;m not bewildered. I'm filled with the deepest awe and wonder. The miracle is that in its complexity it all works.

The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles

Vision is the foresight or forecast or insight into the future. Vision is the picture of one's destiny or accomplishment, or simply what a person is meant to do or become.

Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers

Power is defined as an ability to do qualitative work with a quantitative passion, backed by a compelling conviction, directed by a propelling purpose, fulfilling a divine destiny. That is power!

Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers

One person with a divine purpose, passion and power is better than 99 people who are merely interested. Passion is stronger than interest.

Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers

The dunamis power of God equipes you to unleash your visions and that is your responsibility. You can't be responsible for what you are not equipped to do

Michelangelo | Beethoven | Shakespeare: 15 Things Common to Great Achievers

A bad day for your ego is a great day for your soul.

Master Your Metabolism: The 3 Diet Secrets to Naturally Balancing Your Hormones for a Hot and Healthy Body!

. . .sometimes reading the same page over and over, until one sleepy afternoon something clicked, like a lock unlocking, and she saw those printed doors swing open on a vast house of words.

Sometimes a Great Notion