Large Quotes
3297 quotes by 2379 authors
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I sought excitement and, taking chances, I was all ready to fail in order to achieve something large.
— Raymond Loewy
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their combs and nests; and Mr.…
— Charles Darwin
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Every country must have its own devil. Welshland its own, and France its own. Our German devil will be a good wind-pipe, and must be…
— Martin Luther
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We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at a…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Let us remember the large numbers of citizens who, day in and day out, through acts of volunteerism large and small, bring hope to so…
— Kofi Annan
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Doing nothing for others is the undoing of one's self. We must be purposely kind and generous, or we miss the best part of existence.…
— Horace Mann
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Jealousy was plainly exhibited when I fondled a large doll, and when I weighed his infant sister, he being then 15? months old. Seeing how…
— Charles Darwin
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Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and leading on so many tributary…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I studied the Quran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction that by and large there have been few religions…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less than 1% of…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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Think of a single problem confronting the world today. Disease, poverty, global warming... If the problem is going to be solved, it is science that…
— Bill Bryson
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It is certain that there may be extraordinary mental activity with an extremely small absolute mass of nervous matter: thus the wonderfully diversified instincts, mental…
— Charles Darwin
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A man with so large a brain must have something in it.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I'd been an expert at taking beatings. Then I had a lucky break where I did a bully in, by total sheer luck. ... One…
— Keith Richards
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Take all the robes of all the good judges that have ever lived on the face of the earth, and they would not be large…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Laws are like spiders webs which, if anything small falls into them they ensnare it, but large things break through and escape.
— Solon
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She was a large woman who seemed not so much dressed as upholstered.
— James M. Barrie
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Develop the winning edge; small differences in your performance can lead to large differences in your results.
— Brian Tracy
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A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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