Immense Quotes

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Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as they did ten… — Robert Green Ingersoll
We make boundaries so that we can feel separate and move coherently through the world: it's part of our necessary natural growth to do that.… — Julie Henderson
The best proof that Christ has risen is that he is still alive. And for the immense majority of our contemporaries, the only way of… — Louis Evely
The man who partakes in the breaking of the bread dares to build his house on the very core of love. He becomes, as it… — Francois Mauriac
Constant muscular activity was natural for the child, and, therefore, the immense effort of the drillmaster teachers to make children sit still was harmful and… — G. Stanley Hall
Immense deposits of kimmeridge clay, containing the oil-bearing bands or seams, stretch across England from Dorsetshire to Lincolnshire. [An early political recognition of the native… — Winston Churchill
Nuclear terrorism is one of the most serious threats of our time. Even one such attack could inflict mass casualties and create immense suffering and… — Ban Ki-moon
...the first casualty (of this crisis) had been the United Nations. It would need an immense effort, an almost superhuman effort, to restore the prestige… — Alec Douglas-Home
The interventionists do not approach the study of economic matters with scientific disinterestedness. Most of them are driven by an envious resentment against those whose… — Ludwig von Mises
If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly… — Nikola Tesla
By adoption of these principles, the long-felt want for a uniform medium will be satisfied. The taxpayers will be saved immense sums of interest, discounts,… — Abraham Lincoln
Did a Magdalene, a Paul, a Constantine, an Augustine become mountains of ice after their conversion? Quite the contrary. We should never have had these… — Frances Xavier Cabrini
You must realise now, more clearly than ever, that God is calling you to serve Him in and from the ordinary, secular and civil activities… — Josemaria Escriva
O Jesus, if I but considered attentively your immense solicitude for me, how greatly should I not excel in every virtue? Pardon me, O Jesus,… — Gemma Galgani
But somewhere, beyond Space and Time, is wetter water, slimier slime! And there (they trust) there swimmeth one who swam ere rivers were begun, immense… — Rupert Brooke
Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light,… — Edgar Mitchell
A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests, rivers and lakes,… — Robert Muller
William James describes a man who got the experience from laughing-gas; whenever he was under its influence, he knew the secret of the universe, but… — Bertrand Russell
We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of its truth and organ of its activity. When we discern justice, when… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the… — Joseph Story

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