Largely Quotes
701 quotes by 574 authors
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He existed a step or two to one side of the common world, largely out of sight, a shadow, all but invisible. Whatever he owned,…
— James Sallis
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To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is…
— Dalai Lama
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Gradually the awful truth dawns on you: that Santa Claus was just the tip of the iceberg - that your future will not be the…
— Paul Murray
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In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted.
— Rex Stout
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People tend to assess the relative importance of issues by the ease with which they are retrieved from memory—and this is largely determined by the…
— Daniel Kahneman
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To say nothing of what you lose, lose, lose, are losing, man. You fool, you stupid fool ... You've even been insulated from the responsibility…
— Malcolm Lowry
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Where utopianism is advanced through gradualism rather than revolution, albeit steady and persistent as in democratic societies, it can deceive and disarm an unsuspecting population,…
— Mark Levin
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Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom…
— A. S. Byatt
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We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be
— Holly Black
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I sat on a toilet watching the water run thinking what an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning…
— Bill Bryson
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If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions – if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious…
— C.S. Lewis
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England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.
— George Orwell
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LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women.
— Lauren Willig
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Colonel Otto, do you have a, perhaps, fuller and more detailed account than your preliminary one of why my Imperial Security building is now largely…
— Lois McMaster Bujold
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Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline.
— James C. Collins
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A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.
— Myles Munroe
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He had a tremendous propensity for getting lost when driving. This was largely because of his method of “Zen†navigation, which was simply to find…
— Douglas Adams
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For that again, is what all manner of religion essentially is: childish dependency. If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.…
— Albert Ellis
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A thirteen-year-old is a kaleidoscope of different personalities, if not in most ways a mere figment of her own imagination. At that age, what and…
— Jessica Mitford
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After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'.
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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