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3297 Large quotes by 2305 unique authors

One should be a painter. As a writer, I feel the beauty, which is almost entirely colour, very subtle, very changeable, running over my pen,… — Virginia Woolf
Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable… — Margaret Thatcher
And," he continued, his strange smile gleaming, "as I see it, our hearts are not so different in size. I murdered my father. You murdered… — Kristin Cashore
Most everybody had made at least one bad, drunken decision in their lives. Called an ex at two in the morning. Or perhaps has a… — Augusten Burroughs
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups. — George Carlin
This liberal doxy must be impaled on the member of a particularly large stallion! — John Kennedy Toole
It is our task, both in science and in society at large, to prove the conventional wisdom wrong and to make our unpredictable dreams come… — Freeman Dyson
The Amoeba?" she asked Aiden. "The gang," he said, tossing his hand to indicate all around. "My people. A large amorphous mass that keeps on… — Annette Curtis Klause
As incisively pointed out in the documentary Food Inc.," an overwhelmingly large percentage of "new," healthy," and "organic" alternative food products are actually owned by… — Anthony Bourdain
It's a large as life and twice as natural — Lewis Carroll
He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart… — Jean-Paul Sartre
The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification,… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick. — Terry Pratchett
Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity… — Jack London
The man walked past me and stopped, observing the blood running down my neck. "Your injury. Let us tend to it." He looked out through… — David Wong
She laughed at him then, because he sounded like a small boy, not like a very large grown-up Beast with a voice so deep it… — Robin McKinley
The first thing to understand about nutritionism is that it is not the same thing as nutrition. As the "-ism" suggests, it is not a… — Michael Pollan
Sorry, Bex," Jason said "You don't have the recognizable facial characteristics - such as a huge chin, or a large amount of real estate between… — Meg Cabot
She wasn't the only one to be physically morphed by reader expectation. Miss Havisham was now elderly whether she liked it or not, and Sherlock… — Jasper Fforde
On December 8, 1921, when the Leopoldina set sail for Europe, we were on board. Our life together had finally begun. We held on to… — Paula McLain
It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and… — Neil Gaiman
Something has happened, hasn't it? ... It's like being up close to something so large you don't even see it. Even now, I'm not sure… — Ian Mcewan
Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much. — John Newton
if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

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