Large Quotes
3297 Large quotes by 2305 unique authors
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Only yesterday I was no different than them, yet I was saved. I am explaining to you the way of life of a people who…
— Khalil Gibran
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Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that a lone amateur built the Ark. A large group of professionals built the Titanic.
— Dave Barry
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Watching a dog try to chew a large piece of toffee is a pastime fit for gods. Mr. Fusspot's mixed ancestry had given him a…
— Terry Pratchett
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If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours.
— Shannon Hale
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The devil knows that if the elders of Israel should ever wake up, they could step forth and help preserve freedom and extend the gospel.…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy.
— Scott O'Dell
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The critical opinions of a writer should always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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And a refrigerator may hold a basket of strawberries, which would be important if a maniac said to you, "If you don't give me a…
— Daniel Handler
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A desk, some pads, a pencil, and a large basket -- to hold all of mu mistakes.
— Albert Einstein
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They wanted the real mother, the blood mother, the great womb, mother of fierce compassion, a woman large enough to hold all the pain, to…
— Janet Fitch
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Sometimes I have the urge to conquer large parts of Europe.
— Patricia Briggs
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I'm for open-mindedness and tolerance. I'm against any form of fanaticism, fundamentalism or zealotry, and this certainty of 'We have the truth.' The truth is…
— Philip Pullman
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There is a charge For the eyeing of my scars, there is a charge For the hearing of my heart - It really goes. And…
— Sylvia Plath
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For Tommy, on that hot and empty afternoon, was in a state of mind in which grown-up people go away and write books about their…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Power consists to a large extent in deciding what stories will be told.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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Conversing with children is a fine art.... An art form that demands large amounts of both honesty and misdirection. Or maybe discretion is a better…
— Miriam Toews
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Want is a thing that unfurls unbidden like fungus, opening large upon itself, stopless, filling the sky. But needs, from one day to the next,…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The most notable thing about Time is that it is so purely relative. A large amount of reminiscence is, by common consent, conceded to the…
— O. Henry
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Sometimes small things can become very large, indeed.
— Rick Riordan
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The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.
— Stanislaw Lem
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The bad news was that the yard contained a dog. A very, very large dog, wide and hairy, like a cross between a rottweiler and…
— Dave Barry
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Dear America, I suppose we should introduce ourselves: We're South Louisiana...You probably already know that we talk funny and listen to strange music and eat…
— Chris Rose
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There are plenty of good reasons for fighting...but no good reason to ever hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty hates with you, too.…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so…
— Alfred Hitchcock
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A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect…
— Cormac McCarthy
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