Quotes of: Right-things Keyword

Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.

Terry McAuliffe

We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things.

Neil Cavuto

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Vincent Van Gogh

The human tendency to regard little things as important has produced very many great things.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Things don’t happen for a reason, things give you reasons to make things happen.

Jon R.

If you're not content with the small things, then you won't be content with the big things.

Anthony Liccione

Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film.

Jonathan Nolan

History is boring, unless you see it from the right perspective. perspective is important. Corn growing in a field appears orderless, till one turns the corner and sees the rows line up. a pixelized photo is unrecognizable, till one zooms out. All th...

Change to Chains-The 6,000 Year Quest for Control -Volume I-Rise of the Republic

The “pursuit of happiness” is such a key element of the “American (ideological) dream” that one tends to forget the contingent origin of this phrase: “We holds these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are e...

In Defense of Lost Causes

Listening to the debates about public schools on the Christian Right, one hears plenty of opposing opinions and a great deal of confusion. Some want to change the schools, others want to leave them. But the smart money seems to know what it is doing....

The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America’s Children

It is said that when a person is experiencing death, and when shards of life begins to disintegrate from his mortal body, he starts getting a flashback of his entire life right in front of his eyes, like a reverie – a dream, or sometimes even a nig...

The Infinite Equinox

Man has risen, not fallen. He can choose to develop his capacities as the highest animal and to try to rise still farther, or he can choose otherwise. The choice is his responsibility, and his alone. There is no automatism that will carry him upward ...

The Meaning of Evolution: A Study of the History of Life and of Its Significance for Man, Revised Edition

The state does not oppose the freedom of people to express their particular cultural attachments, but nor does it nurture such expression—rather [...] it responds with 'benign neglect' [....] The members of ethnic and national groups are protected ...

Multicultural Citizenship: A Liberal Theory of Minority Rights

One of the most astounding dynamics in human relationships is how the unconscious intuition of our brain's right hemisphere is able to act as radar to find us just the right person to provoke and recreate our childhood attachment relationship ...I've...

Peace in the Heart and Home: A Down-to-Earth Guide to Creating a Better Life for You and Your Loved Ones

Right before you head out running, it can be hard to remember exactly why you're doing it. You often have to override a nagging sense of futility, lacing up your shoes, telling yourslef that no matter how unlikely it seems right now, after you finish...

Running with the Kenyans: Passion, Adventure, and the Secrets of the Fastest People on Earth

The search for liberty is simply part of the greater search for a world where respect for the rule of law and human rights is universal—a world free of dictators, terrorists, warmongers and fanatics, where men and women of all nationalities, races,...

Mario Vargas Llosa

His mouth opened, nudging her lips apart, and she let him in. He tangled his tongue with hers and made it impossible for her to breathe without him. The kiss took turns at tender, hot, relentless. She loved them all. She could kiss him all night, the...

Keeping Mr. Right Now

So go ahead. Do it—open the book. See? You see me, right? And I see you. See? I am reading your face, your eyes, your lips. I know the sufferdust on your brow. I can see you reading and I can tell, too, when you are here, when you’re absent, what...

Christopher Boucher

[Harry is getting a dressing-down for his most recent arrest] District Attorney Rothko: You're lucky I'm not indicting you for assault with intent to commit murder. Harry Callahan: What? District Attorney Rothko: Where the hell does it say that you'v...

Dirty Harry

Clementine: Let me show you something... come on... Joel: I think I heard a crack. Clementine: It's not gonna crack, or break, or... it's so thick!... Show me which constellations you know. Joel: Um... oh... I don't... know any. Clementine: Show me w...

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Hodel: We only have one Rabbi, and he only has one son. Why shouldn't I want the best? Tzeitel: Because you're a girl from a poor family. So whatever Yente brings, you'll take. Right? Of course, right! [sings, mimicking Yente] Tzeitel: Hodel! Oh Hode...

Fiddler on the Roof