Large Quotes
3297 Large quotes by 2305 unique authors
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Why do you give me cars?" "It's fun," Ranger said."And it keeps you safe. Do you want to know why keeping you safe is important…
— Janet Evanovich
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I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy.…
— Ayn Rand
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That's not precisely what I had in mind." Jamie, I had found out by accident a few days previously, had never mastered the art of…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving…
— Howard Zinn
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It was the second time that day that I stood looking at a space where a large thing wasn't where it was supposed to be.
— Craig Johnston
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What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful rituals…
— John O'Donohue
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He had had a severe shock some weeks earlier, when, having narrowly failed to capture a large grey-brown hare for his dinner, it had stopped…
— Neil Gaiman
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As Jack began to climb the stairs, Fiona looked up at her new home. Five stories of stately mansion rose above her head. Heavy molding…
— Karen Hawkins
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Next to fat babies, midgets are my favorite things to hold. I love them so much, and I want to help them to do adult…
— Chelsea Handler
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I preferred my brand of beauty where Norah was more beautiful than any bimbette, and Mom was beautiful whether sized extra-small or extra-large. Where Peony…
— Justina Chen
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Clove!" Cato's voice is much nearer now. I can tell by the pain in it that he sees her on the ground. "You better run…
— Suzanne Collins
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I did not know that my entire personality, my entire being, could be discarded as the byproduct of my anatomy. What if I really am…
— Veronica Roth
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Some people have a large circle of friends while others have only friends that they like.
— Woodrow Wilson
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A family can be the bane of one's existence. A family can also be most of the meaning of one's existence. I don't know whether…
— Keri Hulme
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Children learn what they live. Put kids in a class and they will live out their lives in an invisible cage, isolated from their chance…
— John Taylor Gatto
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I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.
— Terry Pratchett
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In each of my friends there is something that only some other friend can fully bring out. By myself I am not large enough to…
— C.S. Lewis
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We therefore work, not for the work's sake, but for money—and money is supposed to get us what we really want in our hours of…
— Alan Watts
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She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak herb…
— Alice Munro
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Unless and until we have peace deep within us, we can never hope to have peace in the outer world. You and I create the…
— Sri Chinmoy
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People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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When politicians start talking about large groups of their fellow Americans as 'enemies,' it's time for a quiet stir of alertness. Polarizing people is a…
— Molly Ivins
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Even though you try to put people under control, it is impossible. You cannot do it. The best way to control people is to encourage…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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In the time between the two wars, a British colonial officer said that with the invention of the airplane the world has no secrets left.…
— Heinrich Harrer
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