Large Quotes
3297 Large quotes by 2305 unique authors
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If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the…
— Mark Twain
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"... he had understood, better than anyone ... the beauty that grew out of the simple knowledge that everything, no matter how small or large…
— Charles de Lint
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When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay…
— Fred Rogers
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A leaf that is destined to grow large is full of grooves and wrinkles at the start. Now if one has no patience and wants…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since…
— Albert Einstein
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A large group of us were crowded into the Gestapo hall, and at that moment the circumstances of all our lives were the same. All…
— Etty Hillesum
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There can be no compromise with war; it cannot be reformed or controlled; cannot be disciplined into decency or codified into common sense; for war…
— Jeannette Rankin
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All large political doctrines are rich in difficult problems - problems that are quite above the average citizen's reach. And that is not strange, since…
— Mark Twain
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This victory is in large part due to the Internet... For the first time, a coalition of NGOs has had an influence on the security…
— Jody Williams
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It is far better that we admitted a thousand devils to roam at large than that we permitted one such imposter and monster as Moses,…
— Thomas Paine
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Are you never afraid of God's judgement in denying him? Most certainly not. I also deny Zeus and Jupiter and Odin and Brahma, but this…
— Bertrand Russell
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Never trust anything you read in a travel article. Travel articles appear in publications that sell large, expensive advertisements to tourism-related industries, and these industries…
— Dave Barry
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A society committed to the search for truth must give protection to, and set a high value upon, the independent and original mind, however angular,…
— Caryl Parker Haskins
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By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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Our jobs determine to a large extent what our lives are like. Is what you do for a living making you ill? Does it keep…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The whole music business in the United States is based on numbers, based on unit sales and not on quality. It's not based on beauty,…
— Frank Zappa
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Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out.
— John P. Kotter
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The [Great] Actor is able to approach in himself a cosmic dread as large as life. He is able to go from his dread to…
— Unknown Author
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Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.
— Ralph Richardson
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While General Howe with a Large Armament is advancing towards New York, our Congress resolved to Declare the United Colonies free and Independent States. A…
— Abraham Clark
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