Large Quotes - page 3

The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. (Samuel Johnson)
The large print giveth and the small print taketh away. View quote
Tom Waits
At present the national budget plays a very large role in the whole financial policy of our country. View quote
Ragnar Frisch
If I had a large amount of money I should found a hospital for those whose grip upon the world is so tenuous that they can be severely offended by words and phrases yet remain all unoffended by the injustice, violence and oppression that howls daily. View quote
Stephen Fry
I have a large seashell collection which I keep scattered on the beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen it. View quote
Steven Wright
But the reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand. And the fight we are in here, make no mistake about it, is a fight of individualism versus collectivism. View quote
Paul Ryan
Let true Christians then, with becoming earnestness, strive in all things to recommend their profession, and to put to silence the vain scoffs of ignorant objectors. Let them boldly assert the cause of Christ in an age when so many, who bear the name of Christians, are ashamed of Him: and let them consider as devolved on Them the important duty of suspending for a while the fall of their country, and, perhaps, of performing a still more extensive service to society at large; not by busy interference in politics, in which it cannot but be confessed there is much uncertainty; but rather by that sure and radical benefit of restoring the influence of Religion, and of raising the standard of morality. View quote
William Wilberforce
Always mystify, mislead, and surprise the enemy, if possible; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up in the pursuit so long as your men have strength to follow; for an army routed, if hotly pursued, becomes panic-stricken, and can then be destroyed by half their number. The other rule is, never fight against heavy odds, if by any possible maneuvering you can hurl your own force on only a part, and that the weakest part, of your enemy and crush it. Such tactics will win every time, and a small army may thus destroy a large one in detail, and repeated victory will make it invincible. View quote
Stonewall Jackson
By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself, but to have it affirmed by others is of utmost importance. Writing is, after all, a form of communication. View quote
Ralph Ellison
we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
What TV is extremely good at - and realize that this is "all it does" - is discerning what large numbers of people think they want, and supplying it. (David Foster Wallace)
For God's sake, bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country. View quote
Reginald Maudling
Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much. View quote
John Newton
A small debt produces a debtor; a large one, an enemy. View quote
Publilius Syrus
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works. View quote
Virginia Woolf
Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy. View quote
Sarah Palin
Women began their inner emancipation by their access to literature, by access to the world through books; an access they could not have socially or politically, or of course economically, in the world at large. View quote
George Steiner
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement. View quote
Patricia Hill Collins
At Jaffa in Syria and among the Nomads in Arabia, are lakes of enormous size that yield very large masses of asphalt, which are carried off by the inhabitants thereabouts. View quote
Vitruvius
What the insurance companies have done is to reverse the business so that the public at large insures the insurance companies. View quote
Gerry Spence
Anything you build on a large scale or with intense passion invites chaos. (Francis Ford Coppola)
My library; Was dukedom large enough. View quote
William Shakespeare
My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire. I longed to kindle one It seemed not so wild a dream . . . View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
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. View quote
Winston Churchill