Large Quotes
3297 Large quotes by 2305 unique authors
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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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There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care…
— Samuel Johnson
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The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is…
— Julia Cameron
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They were small, brightly coloured, happy little creatures who secreted some of the nastiest toxins in the world, which is why the job of looking…
— Terry Pratchett
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There is no choice more intensely personal, after all, than whom you choose to marry; that choice tells us, to a large extent, who you…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Jane was wearing a charcoal shift dress. The black dipped into a love V accented with a large black chiffon bow. A layer of delicate…
— Lauren Conrad
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Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large.…
— Daniel Goleman
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The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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The next day, Greg is so large that he cannot even ride the car to school because he can't fit in the car. His parents…
— R L Stine
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Imagine you are walking down a leafy path…The sun is receding, and you are walking alone, caressed by the breezy light of the late afternoon.…
— Azar Nafisi
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A panda walks into a cafe. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air. "Why?" asks…
— Lynne Truss
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We can do anything. It’s not because our hearts are large, they’re not, it’s what we struggle with. The attempt to say Come over. Bring…
— Richard Siken
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I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I am easily moved to tears and rarely survive a visit to the cinema without shedding them, racked, as I am, by the most perfunctory,…
— Martin Amis
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Tiny Cooper is not the world's gayest person, and he is not the world's largest person, but I believe he may be the world's largest…
— John Green
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Never before had she seen such creatures, though they looked much live very large, very shaggy white goats. Thin black horns punctuated the top of…
— Tamora Pierce
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