Largely Quotes

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Tibby sat on the outside of a group of kids in the film program. There was a lot of dark clothing and heavy footwear, and… — Ann Brashares
I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the… — Piers Anthony
I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise… — Patrick O'Brian
Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth — Bertrand Russell
Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a… — David James Duncan
Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential… — Norman Vincent Peale
I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic — J. G. Ballard
All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction. — P.D. James
I feel with some passion that what we truly are is private, and almost infinitely complex, and ambiguous, and both external and internal, and double-… — Philip Pullman
Today is such a time, when the project of interpretation is largely reactionary, stifling. Like the fumes of the automobile and of heavy industry which… — Susan Sontag
The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not. - pg. 41 — William S. Burroughs
Everything Iâ€™ve ever gotten in life is largely due to the fact that I was born in this country, America, at this time with these… — Thomas Friedman
Gruff,â€ I said, â€œI find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to… — Jim Butcher
All human behavior, all human motivations, all manâ€™s hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankindâ€™s tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of… — Robert A. Heinlein
We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be. That's why habits are so hard to break. If we know ourselves to be liars, we… — Holly Black
The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients… — Elizabeth Gilbert
The history of the church has been largely a history of "believers" refusing to believe in the way of the crucified Nazarene and instead giving… — Shane Claiborne
All good things require effort. That which is worth having will cost part of your physical being, your intellectual power and your soul power. Let… — David O. McKay
Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she… — John Irving
Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent… — Charlotte Bronte

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