Largeness Quotes

15 quotes by 14 authors

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young… — Doris Lessing
There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing… — George Eliot
Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites,… — William James
The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a… — Charles Stross
The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid… — Seth Low
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it… — Clifford Geertz
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of… — Ben Okri
Many people have found prayer impossible because they thought they should only pray for wonderful but remote needs they actually had little or no interest… — Dallas Willard
It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the… — Wendell Berry
In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take… — Barbara Kingsolver
Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round. — Edmund Waller
The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire.… — Gordon B. Hinckley
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect… — Cormac McCarthy
When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his… — August Wilson

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