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The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows; it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Of all the delectable islands the Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure… — James M. Barrie
I've never created a riot before. I did cause a brawl at the last formal. A large number of young women there actually arrived with… — Ilona Andrews
Judges... are picked out from the most dextrous lawyers, who are grown old or lazy, and having been biased all their lives against truth or… — Jonathan Swift
Over the last decade our country has lost an average of 300 farms a week. Large or small, each of those was the lifes work… — Barbara Kingsolver
What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry. — Oscar Wilde
Mr. Brown had thought of nothing but numbers. He should have known that the kingdom of God did not depend on large crowds. Our Lord… — Chinua Achebe
Regardless of the overall state of the economy, there is now a large enough elite made up of new multi-millionaires and billionaires for Wall Street… — Naomi Klein
So you see that the process of education, taken in a large way, may be described as nothing but the process of acquiring ideas or… — William James
How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards. — Mary Karr
The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that is rejected by… — Naomi Klein
He was so very large and so very gruff that he rather terrified her, but he always behaved correctly in public, and there was a… — Gail Carriger
She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are… — Jeffery Deaver
The fruitfulness of our lives depends in large measure in our ability to doubt our own words and to question the value of our own… — Thomas Merton
Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else. — Lucy Grealy
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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