Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginning.

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• I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.

  

  A. Scott Berg
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  • School

• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

  

  Edmund Burke
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  • Nature
  • Law

• I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.

  

  Carl Paladino
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  • Kids

• Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.

  

  Tacitus
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  • Adversity

• I think that Richard Nixon is a great man and that he is very dedicated to what he does. I had the pleasure of meeting him when I attended the Republican National Convention in Miami. You can really tell that he is willing to go out of his way to help the American people.

  

  Laraine Day
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  • American

• My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.

  

  Laura Wasser
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  • Great
  • Family

• When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • People
  • Great
  • Joy

• Those who have accomplished great things in the world have been, as a rule, bold, aggressive, and self-confident. They dared to step out from the crowd and act in an original way. They were not afraid to be generals.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
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  • Step

• I used to love, and I still do, Lee Ann Womack. And Alison Krauss. I mean, how many Grammys does she have? She's just remained solid and true and great, and I respect that.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
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• Nice girls aren't always what they seem.

  

  Taylor Cole
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• Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

  

  Salma Hayek
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  • Women
  • Mother

• My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.

  

  Candace Bushnell
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  • Parents

• I've always worn earplugs, but I'm sure my hearing's not great.

  

  J Mascis
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• I have great energy and I have great tasks ahead of me.

  Garry Kasparov
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• There's so many great songs already written, it's kind of really wonderful you don't have to write your own.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
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  • True
  • Religion

• Many people who want to be great aren't willing to do the work to make it possible!

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• It takes a lot of courage, when everyone is asking you what you want to do, if you say that you want to be a musician or an actor; people can be very condescending and say, 'Oh, that's so sweet, good luck with that!' It can be very frustrating.

  

  James Norton
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  • Courage

• When I was running for speaker, people would go out of their way to point out why I wasn't going to win: 'You're a woman, you're too liberal, you're gay, you're from the West Side of Manhattan,' which in that context was an insult.

  

  Christine Quinn
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• As a U.S. Senator, I've tried my best to practice politics the way I think it's supposed to be practiced - always looking for common ground and truly enjoying the people I meet along the way.

  

  Amy Klobuchar
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• Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
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• I'm a bit of a romantic, to a fault. It's led me to some great things and also some sad things. It's made me a better person, to keep a good spirit about dating.

  

  Alexander Koch
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• Reserve the great matters till the end, and the small matters give at the beginning.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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