Size Quotes

No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it's his own. (Seneca)
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation. View quote
Norman Mailer
Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size. View quote
Virginia Woolf
By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door. View quote
Peter Ustinov
I look at an ant and see myself: a native South African, endowed with a strength much greater than my size, so I might cope with the weight of racism that crushes my spirit. View quote
Miriam Makeba
Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age. View quote
Morrissey
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki
You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less. (Bertrand Russell)
Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up. View quote
Max Beerbohm
Headlines twice the size of the events. View quote
John Galsworthy
The rhythm of relations of color and size makes the absolute appear in the relativity of time and space. View quote
Piet Mondrian
Everyone recognizes that's a joke because obviously the number and shape of the pieces doesn't affect the size of the pizza. And similarly, the stocks, bonds, warrants, etc., issued don't affect the aggregate value of the firm. View quote
Merton Miller
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. View quote
Kanye West
Contour refers to the pattern of musical pitch in a melody-the sequence of ups or downs that the melody takes-regardless of the size of the interval. View quote
Daniel Levitin
Why is it that so many men of small stature have more courage than men of size? View quote
John le Carré
How is it possible to find meaning in a finite world, given my waist and shirt size. View quote
Woody Allen
The mantra is forget your size discover your shape and transform yourself. View quote
Trinny Woodall
I found, one day in school, a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babiesthat's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. (Bertrand Russell)
The monumental pomp of age Was with this goodly personage A stature undepressed in size, Unbent, which rather seemed to rise In open victory o'er the weight Of seventy years, to loftier height. View quote
William Wordsworth
In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave. View quote
Vitruvius
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
The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson