Immense Quotes

551 Immense quotes by 445 unique authors

It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas… — Edward E. Barnard
An empire is an immense egotism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension. — Winston Churchill
Sleeping in a bed -- it is, apparently, of immense importance. Against those who sleep, from choice or necessity, elsewhere society feels righteously hostile. It… — Rose Macaulay
The value of moments, when cast up, is immense, if well employed; if thrown away, their loss is irrevocable. — Lord Chesterfield
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession. — George Bernard Shaw
My father provided; he gathered things to himself and let them fall upon the world; my clothes, my food, my luxurious hopes had fallen to… — John Updike
Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a beggar. Without conquering… — Rajneesh
I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense… — Thomas Huxley
That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns… — Philibert Joseph Roux
If thou covetest riches, ask not but for contentment, which is an immense treasure. — Saadi
In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes. — Henry Van Dyke
...since social relationships are always ambiguous, since my thought is only a unit, since my thoughts create rifts as much as they unite, since my… — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Enthusiastic partisans of the idea of progress are in danger of failing to recognize... the immense riches accumulated by the human race. By underrating the… — Claude Levi-Strauss
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward
It is the Revolution, the magical word, the word that is going to change everything, that is going to bring us immense delight and a… — Octavio Paz
Like grain in a time of famine, the immense resources which the nation does in fact possess go not to the child in the greatest… — Jonathan Kozol
I shall devote all my efforts to bring light into the immense obscurity that today reigns in Analysis. It so lacks any plan or system,… — Niels Henrik Abel
When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice. — Gabourey Sidibe
I think there is an immense charm and humanity about the Bollywood structure, probably in the way there was about Hollywood film in the '30s… — Julian Sands
God and I have built an immense fire together. We keep each other happy and warm. — Hafez
Not to say that corporations are perfect today, but even grand corporations like Dupont have made immense progress in translating some of their past environmentally… — Maurice Strong
People would do well to ask themselves how many of their ambitions and aspirations derive from the type of economic system they inhabit and the… — Tony Benn
It is easier for one to take risks and to chase his dreams with a mindset that he has nothing to lose. In this lies… — Criss Jami
Ten years ago I was not heavily involved in the film world but on reflection it was a boom time with the mineral boom happening,… — Ann Macbeth

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