Bigs Quote by Brendan Gill Download Open image “Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run.” — Brendan Gill ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bigs Democracy Election Inspirational life Long Long run Long runs Matter Running War
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again. — Pete du Pont Copy Share Image
I can't think of an election that is more important, certainly in my lifetime. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Elections matter, but how much they matter depends entirely on how free, open and fair they are. — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
It seems that elections today are more popularity than they are substantial issues. — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
In the later nineteenth century, the tops of skyscrapers often took the shape of domes, surmounted by jaunty gilded lanterns; later came ziggurats, mausoleums,… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
We must all face the fact that in a single lifetime we lead several simultaneous lives; our intention should be to make them reinforce… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
I will try to cram these paragraphs full of facts and give them a weight and shape no greater than that of a cloud… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale… — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
Obscenity is a notable enhancer of life and is suppressed at grave peril to the arts. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
The ingenuities we practice in order to appear admirable to ourselves would suffice to invent the telephone twice over on a rainy summer morning. — Brendan Gill Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The biggest change for me as a mom was realizing I needed to put someone else before me. Now the hardest part about the… — Kim Alexis Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a… — Kenny Wormald Copy Share Image
The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before… — Gerry Cooney Copy Share Image
It goes to show you how we in the press so often miss the big stories that are right under our noses. There is… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
Okay, so I'll admit I'm curious. Big deal. We both know what that leads to. Dead cat. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips Copy Share Image
I don't want this to be a distraction. This has been distracting enough. I'm not going to rehash this going forward. I'm sure other… — Jayson Werth Copy Share Image
I didn't get how big it was until I went home, turned on the television and saw it on all the news, and later… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing — Gene Baur Copy Share Image