Large Quotes
3297 Large quotes by 2305 unique authors
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Do you see the consequences of the way we have chosen to think about success? Because we so profoundly personalize success, we miss opportunities to…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long— PEOPLE. No matter how big the idea they all stand under,…
— Warren Ellis
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In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Eastern Rim of the Galaxy, the Hitch-Hiker's Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopaedia Galactica…
— Douglas Adams
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I kept running around it in large or small circles, always looking for someone or something able to convince me of my Belovedness. Self-rejection is…
— Henri Nouwen
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Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can…
— George R. R. Martin
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If friends disappoint you over and over, that's in large part your own fault. Once someone has shown a tendency to be self-centered, you need…
— Oprah Winfrey
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A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the…
— Susan Sontag
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She had only to open a door, nothing but a door between the words,just large enough for her and Farid to pass through....
— Cornelia Funke
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It’s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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It seemed that we loved each other better when there were large swaths of two continents between us. The daily work of love was often…
— Aleksandar Hemon
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The Lord has set no limits on what He is willing to teach us and give us. We are the only ones who set limits--through…
— Sheri L. Dew
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It is better to be small, colorful, sexy, careless, and peaceful, like the flowers, than large, conservative, repressed, fearful, and aggressive, like the thunder lizards;…
— Tom Robbins
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A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
— Boyd K. Packer
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Well, you missed out on some important protocol, Ella. You can't stand between a Texan and his power tools. We like them. Big ones that…
— Lisa Kleypas
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I sometimes hold it half a sin To put in words the grief I feel For words, like nature, half reveal And half conceal the…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he was young, he…
— Nancy Farmer
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She respected her husband in the same way as she respected the General Post Office, as something large, secure and fixed: and though she knew…
— James Joyce
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The low ceiling that was water stained and boasting spiders so large she half expected Frodo and Sam to appear and fight them off.
— Alexandra Ivy
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Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up…
— John Stuart Mill
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