Large Quotes
3297 quotes by 2305 authors
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By and large, the Healing Dream is not the defender of our waking goals-material achievement, perfect romance, a modest niche in history-but an advocate-general for…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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Large newspapers are routinely censored by legal costs. It is time this stopped. It is time a country said, enough is enough, justice must be…
— Julian Assange
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... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to…
— Jerry Garcia
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Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django…
— Charlie Byrd
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...the people at large absolutely gave James Brown respect. He was an original like a Rembrandt or a Picasso
— Aretha Franklin
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If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it…
— Frank Moore Colby
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I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want…
— James Frey
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Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of…
— John D. MacDonald
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Visitation Street is urban opera writ large. Gritty and magical, filled with mystery, poetry and pain, Ivy Pochoda’s voice recalls Richard Price, Junot Diaz, and…
— Dennis Lehane
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The close relationship between politics and economics is neither neutral nor coincidental. Large governments evolve through history in order to protect large accumulations of property…
— Michael Parenti
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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
— Maggie Gallagher
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By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress…
— Jenny Shipley
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It requires courage to make a frontal attack on nature through the broad planes and the large lines and it is cowardly to do it…
— Edgar Degas
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It is useless for large companies of believers to spend long hours begging God to send revival. Unless we intend to reform we may as…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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In ten years [i.e., 1980] all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because…
— Paul R. Ehrlich
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Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible…
— Marsha Blackburn
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The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore. True, you can sit outside in…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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There are twenty-seven specific complaints against the British Crown set forth in the Declaration of Independence. To modern ears they still sound reasonable...in large part,…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The study of an idea is, of necessity, the story of many things. Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source. Just as the…
— Willy Ley
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Ideas, like large rivers, never have just one source.
— Willy Ley
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