Larger Quotes
1178 quotes by 984 authors
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In larger things we are convivial; what causes trouble is the trivial.
— Richard Armour
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger…
— Karen Armstrong
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I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.
— Chinua Achebe
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In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes…
— Charles Babbage
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
— Francis Bacon
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American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.
— James A. Baldwin
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Voyagers discover that the world can never be larger than the person that is in the world; but it is impossible to foresee this, it…
— James A. Baldwin
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An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.
— Christian Bale
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My whole career has been fulfilling my childhood fantasies, playing characters that are larger than life, getting to play a knight, an elf, a prince,…
— Orlando Bloom
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People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on a much larger scale, a much more horrific scale.
— John Bolton
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The Italians and Spanish, the Chinese and Vietnamese see food as part of a larger, more essential and pleasurable part of daily life. Not as…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing -…
— Phillips Brooks
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Believe in something larger than yourself... get involved in the big ideas of your time.
— Barbara Bush
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But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your…
— Jeb Bush
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Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
— Samuel Butler
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Idris Elba is a grand actor. He's very larger than life; he's bigger than life.
— Nicolas Cage
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The Democrats co-opted the credit for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But if you go back and look at the history, a larger percentage…
— Herman Cain
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In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns:…
— Christopher Alexander
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In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger?…
— David Cameron
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Poorer students take out larger loans and will have to contribute more to the cost of higher education.
— Anne Campbell
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