Immense Quotes · Page 8

How immense God is, that He is able to sweep into His purposes even foolish requests and bad motivations.

— Alistair Begg

You can experience true delight on the Sabbath from family history work...Finding family members...can bring immense joy.

— Russell M. Nelson

You can never deny the immense talent, rock credibility and iconic historical contribution that Van Halen made.

— Steve Vai

Each match I approach like a new one. The work is so immense that you don't have time to sit and ponder.

— Viswanathan Anand

“The more you recognize the immense good within you, the more you magnetize immense around you.”

— Alan Cohen

I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot…

— Alex Haley

Speaking of August Rodin: He raised his world above us in an immense arc, and made it a part of nature.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

— Andrew Carnegie

Why could not advantage be taken of a time of relative calm and quiet to investigate and try to solve a question…

— Henry Dunant

“Hygge is our awareness of the scale of our existence in contrast to the immensity of life. It is our sense of…

— Louisa Thomsen Brits

If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such…

— Thomas Berry

I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any…

— Niels Henrik Abel

Israel must never be expected to jeopardize her security: if she was ever foolish enough to do so, and then suffered for…

— Margaret Thatcher

My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative…

— Jasper Fforde

The sheer volume of evidence for survival after death is so immense that to ignore it is like standing at the foot…

— Colin Wilson

The paradox is that I have no love for myself as a human being, but I have immense pride in the music…

— Anonymous

An immense and ever-increasing wealth of knowledge is scattered about the world today; knowledge that would probably suffice to solve all the…

— H. G. Wells

Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines…

— Lewis H. Lapham

above this race of men stands an immense and tutelary power, which takes upon itself alone to secure their gratifications, and to…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Elvis Presley's death deprives our country of a part of itself. He was unique, irreplaceable. More than twenty years ago, he burst…

— Jimmy Carter

We make boundaries so that we can feel separate and move coherently through the world: it's part of our necessary natural growth…

— Julie Henderson

By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums…

— Abraham Lincoln

EDUCATION, n. The bringing up, as of a child; instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline…

— Noah Webster

His sumptuous tents, and those of his satraps, afforded an immense booty to the conqueror; and an incident is mentioned which proves…

— Edward Gibbon

I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes.

— Abraham Lincoln

Bobby Fischer has an enormous knowledge of chess and his familiarity with the chess literature of the USSR is immense.

— Boris Spassky

At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century.

— Albert Camus

Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our…

— Hugh Prather

O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven-of silk-worm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon!

— Marianne Moore

Much of the uncertainty of law is not an unfortunate accident: it is of immense social value.

— Sonia Sotomayor

If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with…

— Joy Harjo

I believe that 99 percent of successful TV shows change an immense amount from the pilot to the tenth or twelfth episode.

— Bill Lawrence

Cats of great personality are always found in association with sensitive, cat-conscious people; it is a two-way process of immense mutual benefit.

— Patricia Moyes

People with really weak characters cause an immense amount of suffering in the world. They destroy whole civilisations.

— Bessie Head

Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow.

— Richard H. Davis

We are so unconscious about our actions that we don't even realize the immense suffering we are causing to animals, the planet,…

— Sharon Gannon

Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I am. I am just nothing…

— Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

At our coming into the world we contract an immense debt to our country, which we can never discharge.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense…

— Alan Moore

Only since the turn of the century has abstraction again become recognized as an artistic means of representation. It was then that…

— Sigfried Giedion