#great thing

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. ↗

— Marjorie Holmes

#anchor #direction #drift #find #great

That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them. ↗

— Lars von Trier

#convent #entering #great #great thing #simply

The great thing I think when you do independents is that people are really there for the same reason. They're not there because they got a lot of money and they want to just go home and get it over with. They're there because they believe in the script or the director or the cast or whatever it is, and they want to make it work. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#believe #cast #director #get #go

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#duty #expressed #freedom #great things #honor

Expect great things from God, attempt great things for God. ↗

— William Carey

#expect #god #great #great things #things

The great thing about film is you start and finish. It's a journey that lasts so long, TV lasts a long time. ↗

— Melissa George

#film #finish #great #great thing #journey

I have known great things and wonderful persons, and I have known homage. ↗

— Lillie Langtry

#great things #homage #i #known #persons

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. ↗

— James Russell Lowell

#great #great things #himself #man #produce

People will love something very much or hate something very much. But the great thing about a sketch show is that if something comes along that you don't like, something else will come along in a minute that hopefully you might like that. ↗

— Matt Lucas

#along #come #comes #else #great

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#fashion #great #great things #silence #themselves