Immense Quotes

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The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things. — Charles Baudelaire
There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we… — Saul Bellow
The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes… — Steve Buyer
Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs. — Andrew Carnegie
Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something… — Nick Cave
Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development. — Kofi Annan
I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which… — Bernard Moitessier
Unlike any other business in the United States, sports must preserve an illusion of perfect innocence. The mounting of this illusion defines the purpose and… — Lewis H. Lapham
The immense and ever increasing sums which the state wrings from the people are never enough for it; it mortgages the income of future generations,… — Peter Kropotkin
The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without end, without restraint,… — Joseph de Maistre
What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen. — Leo Tolstoy
This very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect… — David Hume
Islam in its origins is just as shady and approximate as those from which it took its borrowings. It makes immense claims for itself, invokes… — Christopher Hitchens
The number of possible "on-off" patterns of neuronal firing is immense, estimated as a staggering ten times ten one million times (ten to the millionth… — Daniel J. Siegel
The bare earth, plantless, waterless, is an immense puzzle. In the forests or beside rivers everything speaks to humans. The desert does not speak. I… — Pablo Neruda
The truth is that the fall of Napoleon is the hardest blow that our taxing system ever felt. It is now impossible to make people… — William Cobbett
The only hope of preserving what is best, lies in the practice of an immense charity, a wide tolerance, a sincere respect for opinions that… — Philip Gilbert Hamerton
I picture the vast realm of the sciences as an immense landscape scattered with patches of dark and light. The goal towards which we must… — Denis Diderot
The universe, that vast assemblage of every thing that exists, presents only matter and motion: the whole offers to our contemplation, nothing but an immense,… — Baron d'Holbach

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