Large Quotes - page 5

But that's not enough: To maintain energy security, one needs a supply system that provides a buffer against shocks. It needs large, flexible markets. And it's important to acknowledge the fact that the entire energy supply chain needs to be protected. (Daniel Yergin)
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas. View quote
Dave Reichert
I was always a mean and lean athlete - not tall - not large. View quote
Edwin Moses
A large part of crime is economics - if people are working and and have a home and family to support, then I believe you can reduce the crime rate. View quote
Frank Vincent
In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music. View quote
George Crumb
Rewriting is a large part of the whole job. And get rid of stuff that's not working. Just pare it down until it's a beautiful thing you can hand in, probably late, to your editor. View quote
Kurt Loder
I am firmly convinced that, in future years, China and India will join hands in playing a more active role in maintaining peace and stability in the region and the world at large and make due contribution to the cause of human progress and development. View quote
Li Peng
When Stevie and I joined the band, we were in the midst of breaking up, as were John and Christine. By the time Rumours was being recorded, things got worse in terms of psychology and drug use. It was a large exercise in denial - in order for me to get work done. View quote
Lindsey Buckingham
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. View quote
Maggie Gallagher
I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day. View quote
Mary MacLane
The president has been a true friend of the ag industry, because he continues to invest large amounts of money at a time when savings is really the goal of the federal government to deal with the deficit. (Mike Johanns)
For over ten years or so game music has developed into a very large market. View quote
Nobuo Uematsu
One of the very nice things about investing in the stock market is that you learn about all different aspects of the economy. It's your window into a very large world. View quote
Ron Chernow
Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible. View quote
Yuan T. Lee
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song. View quote
Rachel Carson
The correct relationship between the higher and lower classes, the appropriate mutual interaction between the two is, as such, the true underlying support on which the improvement of the human species rests. The higher classes constitute the mind of the single large whole of humanity; the lower classes constitute its limbs; the former are the thinking and designing [Entwerfende] part, the latter the executive part. View quote
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species. View quote
Charles Darwin
What the newer landscape artists see in a circle of a hundred degrees in Nature they press together unmercifully into an angle of vision of only forty-five degrees. And furthermore, what is in Nature separated by large spaces, is compressed into a cramped space and overfills and oversatiates the eye, creating an unfavorable and disquieting effect on the viewer. View quote
Caspar David Friedrich
I must go to Nature disarmed of perspective and stretch myself like a large transparent canvas upon her in the hope that, my submission being perfect, the imprint of a beautiful and useful truth would be taken. View quote
John Updike
For a very long time, and among a large number of peoples, political power has belonged to the owners of the land. View quote
Vilfredo Pareto
He ["the male"] is trapped in a twilight zone halfway between humans and apes, and is far worse off than apes, because he is, first of all, capable of a large array of negative feelings that the apes aren't - hate, jealousy, contempt, disgust, guilt, shame, disgrace, doubt - and, secondly, he is aware of what he is and isn't. (Valerie Solanas)
But America is a great, unwieldy Body. Its Progress must be slow. It is like a large Fleet sailing under Convoy. The fleetest Sailors must wait for the dullest and slowest. Like a Coach and six-the swiftest Horses must be slackened and the slowest quickened, that all may keep an even Pace. View quote
John Adams
Life will always be to a large extent what we ourselves make it. View quote
Samuel Smiles
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
Fine, large, meaningless, general terms like romance and business can always be related. They take the place of thinking, and are highly useful to optimists and lecturers. View quote
Sinclair Lewis