Heavyweights Full Quotes & Sayings

What I absorbed from autobiographies was not how to be great so much as the littleness of the great. — Miles Franklin

They climbed the wide stairways. Their footsteps echoed and echoed through the house. "What on earth will you be doing with something so large?" said Mum.
"I shall live in it with my servants, of course," said Mina. "Or I shall establish a school."
"A school, my lady?"
"Yes. A school for the writing of nonsense and the pursuit of extraordinary activities. — David Almond

I shall be but a shrimp of an author. — Thomas Gray

She walked along beneath a sky of bird's-egg blue, — Stephen R. Lawhead

I really connect with those moments of doing missionary work down there and just seeing the people that are dying from disease and hunger and malnutrition. — Deborah Cox

The war mentality represents an unfortunate confluence of ignorance, fear, prejudice, and profit ... The ignorance exists in its own right and is further perpetuated by government propaganda. The fear is that of ordinary people scared by misinformation but also that of leaders who may know better but are intimidated by the political costs of speaking out on such a heavily moralized and charged issue. The prejudice is evident in the contradiction that some harmful substances (alcohol, tobacco) are legal while others, less harmful in some ways, are contraband. This has less to do with the innate danger of the drugs than with which populations are publicly identified with using the drugs. The white and wealthier the population, the more acceptable is the substance. And profit. If you have fear, prejudice, and ignorance, there will be profit. — Gabor Mate

You've got to open on a Sunday, but at the end of the day, you've just lost a lot of money by opening on the Sunday, so it's very, very difficult to make money when you're paying unskilled people $42 per hour. — Gerry Harvey

Cockiness is a display of an empty lifestyle, humility is when you see yourself as a zero while others are making you their hero. — Michael Bassey Johnson

A silent street always welcome a good music! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Thou Shall Not Fear moving to a new city, because I'm leading you. Thou Shall Not Fear losing your job, for I am your employer. Thou Shall Not Fear hard times, for I will take care of you. Thou Shall Not Fear the future, because I am waiting for you there. Thou Shall Not Fear death, because I am eternal Life. — Kent Crockett