Large Quotes - page 4

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? (Walt Whitman)
Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination. View quote
Walt Whitman
The feeling of satiety, almost inseparable from large possessions, is a surer cause of misery than ungratified desires. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. View quote
Henry Ford
... very often the laws derived by physicists from a large number of observations are not rigorous, but approximate. View quote
Augustin Louis Cauchy
Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. View quote
C. S. Lewis
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. View quote
Albert Einstein
For a large class of cases -- though not for all -- in which we employ the word ''meaning'' it can be defined thus the meaning of a word is its use in the language. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
In the world at large, people are rewarded or punished in ways that are often utterly random. In the garden, cause and effect, labor and reward, are re-coupled. Gardening makes sense in a senseless world. By extension, then, the more gardens in the world, the more justice, the more sense is created. View quote
Andrew Weil
Technological progress becomes even more exciting when it enters into the service of the social idea which demands that not only a small elite but humanity at large should profit by it. View quote
Rudolf Christoph Eucken
Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people. (Thom Mayne)
There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
Homesickness hits hardest in the middle of a crowd in a large, alien city. View quote
Christos Tsiolkas
I grew up in a business-inspired environment, and over the years have started and run several businesses and philanthropic organizations. Understanding how large corporations work, by having hands-on and board experience, I apply that knowledge to the benefit of all that I do. View quote
Shari Arison
There can be no peace in the world so long as a large proportion of the population lack the necessities of life and believe that a change of the political and economic system will make them available. World peace must be based on world plenty. View quote
John Boyd Orr
Slowly, Anna put up a hand to his muzzle and began to scratch that spot behind the ear where large dogs keep their souls. View quote
Eva Ibbotson
Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life. View quote
Wilhelm Wundt
Following the Second World War, we are a country of one ethnicity. After the moving of the borders, after the tragedy of the Holocaust and the murder of Polish Jews, we don't have large minority groups. View quote
Aleksander Kwasniewski
And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture. View quote
Arne Jacobsen
I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record. View quote
Adrian Belew
As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box. (Adrian Belew)
We can no longer let the threat of an early frost send a chill of fear throughout a large portion of our workforce. Diversification is the only answer. View quote
Alan Autry
So I have the classic amateur's technique; I know some very tricky bits and I have large gaping holes. View quote
Bill Bruford
If a catastrophic event wipes out a large portion of House members, America needs to know this body, elected by the people, will be quickly and legally reconstituted and will continue to function. View quote
Charles W. Pickering
Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real. View quote
Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.