Large Quotes - page 2

Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing. (Ralph Richardson)
Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large. View quote
Plutarch
By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class. View quote
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
External nature is only internal nature writ large. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers. View quote
Bill Gates
It is in the gift for employing all the vicissitudes of life to one's own advantage and to that of one's craft that a large part of genius consists. View quote
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Few women care to be laughed at and men not at all, except for large sums of money. View quote
Alan Ayckbourn
Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy. View quote
Winston Churchill
We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world. View quote
Hugo Chávez
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence. (Sigmund Freud)
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour. View quote
Macaulay Culkin
A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders. View quote
Lord Dunsany
From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the beginnings of the mental life date from as far back as the beginnings of life at large. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world. View quote
Etty Hillesum
Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them. View quote
George Eliot
I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures. It is not inhibited by flourish. It is a rhetorical society. It is a society of physical performance. It is a society of style. View quote
Derek Walcott
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many in shallows and in miseries, are the decrees of a large, farseeing be. View quote
Herbert Spencer
Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell. (Simone Weil)
Our object should be peace within, and peace without. We want to live peacefully and maintain cordial friendly relations with our immediate neighbours and with the world at large. View quote
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The solution to adult problems tomorrow depends on large measure upon how our children grow up today. View quote
Margaret Mead
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. View quote
Samuel Johnson