Top 100 Large Small Quotes
#1. The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never disappear in the way we think they should, but maybe they don't need to. Trauma is an ineradicable aspect of life. We are human as a result of it, not in spite of it.
Mark Epstein
#2. To our natural and human reason, I say that these terms 'large,' 'small,' 'immense,' 'minute,' etc. are not absolute but relative; the same thing in comparison with various others may be called at one time 'immense' and at another 'imperceptible.
Galileo Galilei
#3. That for them, that war won't ever be over. I don't think any real war ever is - large, small, between countries, between people. Even the wars inside ourselves. Something always remains.
Nancy Jensen
#4. The only thing crueler than a cage so
small that a bird can't fly is a cage so
large that a bird thinks it can fly.
Caroline Kepnes
#5. Like most such tasks, cooking vegetables involves investing large amounts of time in deep thought and procrastination and a relatively small amount of time actually doing the job.
Richard David Feinman
#6. If you decide on having an alcoholic at your party, make sure it's a large gathering. This way, until the alcoholic begins removing their clothes or dangling the cat out the window, they can sort of blend in. An alcoholic at a small gathering is called an intervention.
Amy Sedaris
#7. Dorrigo glimpsed a complex mud of intimacies normally invisible to the world - the shared sleep, scents, sounds, the habits endearing and frustrating, the pleasures and sadnesses, small and large - the plain mortar that finally renders two as one. Her hair was pulled back
Richard Flanagan
#8. Scepticism is effortful and costly. It is better to be sceptical about matters of large consequences, and be imperfect, foolish and human in the small and the aesthetic.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#9. A small tree with large roots will last longer than a large tree with small roots.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#10. Think of Shakespeare and Melville and you think of thunder, lightning, wind. They all knew the joy of creating in large or small forms, on unlimited or restricted canvases. These are the children of the gods.
Ray Bradbury
#11. When you have the chance to right a wrong, in whatever small or large way, you have a duty to step up and do it.
Steven D. Wolf
#12. Fears locked in small brains are much too large to pass through the orifice of the mouth.
Stephen King
#13. I suppose the biggest thing I learned is that I'm in it for the right reasons. I love my job as much now as when I first began. I still feel fully invested in every audition, every job - large or small, every appearance, every meeting with every fan.
Steven Blum
#14. It was a small church. No large cathedral towers overshadowed the purpose of the house of worship. It was a monument to faith rather than a monument to man's triumph over nature.
Richard W. Kelly
#15. I've worked with many large and small publishers, and nearly all of them love the value that Instapaper provides to their readers.
Marco Arment
#16. I enjoy playing with a big band occasionally, but it's too restricting; you really don't have a chance to stretch out and do what you want to do. Getting that thing of relating to a large band is great experience; I relate much better, though, if it's a small band.
Art Pepper
#17. Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
Aristotle.
#18. No problem too large, no creature too small.
Alice Bach
#19. The sacrifices ordinary American men and women from communities large and small have been willing to make, often before they were past their teenage years, have secured our nation unprecedented freedoms and made us the world's bulwark of liberty.
Steve Buyer
#20. Life is a sum of all your choices, wrote Albert Camus. Large or small, our actions forge our futures, hopefully inspiring others along the way.
Howard Schultz
#21. We all do things in a certain individual way, according to our temperaments.
Every human act - no matter how large or how small - is a direct expression of
a man's personality, and bears the inevitable impress of his nature.
S. S. Van Dine
#22. There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence.
Stephen Covey
#23. Most of my recorded material has been in small group configurations. I have not released large orchestral works as recordings because it hasn't been within the realm of possibility.
Bill Dixon
#24. The democratic process will always favor small, well-organized groups at the expense of large, diffuse groups.
Charles Wheelan
#25. History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town ...
Gladys Taber
#26. No tax in any amount, large or small, can be levied to support any religious activities or institutions, whatever they may be called, or whatever form they may adopt to teach or practice religion.
Hugo Black
#27. Ah yet, ere I descend to the grave, May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books, both true, both wise and both delightful too.
Abraham Cowley
#28. If one finds the strength to deal with small things, one finds it to deal with the large ones as well.
Etty Hillesum
#29. Such a small question, little mouse. Why. Yet, such a large answer. Suffice it to say that the gods are at war. And when the gods make war, it's we little mice who pay the price."
~Dal Durvaas, The Living Gods
W.M. Driscoll
#30. Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and signals.
Sun Tzu
#31. By and large, the poor do not want some small life. They don't want to game the system or eke out an existence; they want to thrive and contribute.
Matthew Desmond
#32. I preferred my brand of beauty where Norah was more beautiful than any bimbette, and Mom was beautiful whether sized extra-small or extra-large. Where Peony could look at herself in the mirror and murmur, wow, look at me. Just look at me.
Justina Chen
#33. To all companies large and small, I would say this: the British economy is fundamentally strong; we are highly competitive, and we are open for business.
George Osborne
#34. I'm sure the large part of me is Holden Caulfield, who is the main person in the book. The small part of me must be the Devil.
Mark David Chapman
#35. For a while, I could only wear sweat pants because I was that intermediate size that you're not a small, you're not a large.
Shakira
#36. TRUST, n. In American politics, a large corporation composed in greater part of thrifty working men, widows of small means, orphans in the care of guardians and the courts, with many similar malefactors and public enemies.
Ambrose Bierce
#37. I went to a mixed school and I can't remember being bullied at school, ever. I was quite large, in those days. Usually, if you're going to be a bully, you'll pick on someone who is small. I didn't bully anybody, and I don't remember being bullied.
Elton John
#38. I'd like to see every news organization, large and small, newspaper and blog, sponsor FOIA clubs in their communities to get scores, hundreds, thousands of citizens helping to open up data.
Jeff Jarvis
#39. Many newly public companies are able to post a year or two of strong sales growth off a small base, but their growth almost always slows over time, thanks to what investment professionals call 'the law of large numbers.'
Alex Berenson
#40. Deal with difficult tasks while they are easy. Act on large issues while they are small.
Laozi
#41. Pines and spruces can't be sheared like yew or hemlock, but they are stately in large landscapes, where their eventual size is a plus. (But they are a nightmare in small yards, where their eventual size is like having a brontosaurus nesting in the front yard.)
Cassandra Danz
#42. In truth, the world is now a seamless web from which no nation, large or small, young or old, can disassociate itself. Every attitude and every action of every nation can affect the welfare and security of every other nation around the globe.
Robert Kennedy
#43. Piglet noticed that even though he had a Very Small Heart, it could hold a rather large amount of Gratitude.
A.A. Milne
#44. The doing of something productive regardless of the outcome is an act of faith. The doing of a small something when a large something is too much for us is perhaps especially an act of faith. Faith means going forward by whatever means we can.
Julia Cameron
#45. Shutterstock has evolved from an image-based marketplace for small businesses to a much broader platform, with a large and expanding addressable market opportunity.
Jon Oringer
#46. Living in a small town ... is like living in a large family of rather uncongenial relations. Sometimes it's fun, and sometimes it's perfectly awful, but it's always good for you. People in large towns are like only-children.
Joyce Dennys
#48. It's time to level the playing field for small business owners and give them the same health care choices that large corporations have. Because they don't have as many employees, they have little ability to negotiate lower rates.
Jeff Merkley
#49. No one of you is insignificant, in part because you make the gospel of Jesus Christ what it is - a living reminder of His grace and mercy, a private but powerful manifestation in small villages and large cities of the good He did and the life He gave bringing peace and salvation to other people.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#50. Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#51. Authors, artists, and even philosophers are much better off having a very small number of fanatics behind them than a large number of people who appreciate their work. The number of persons who dislike the work don't count - there is no such thing as the opposite of buying your book,
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#52. When we are high up, everything looks very small.
Our glories and our sadnesses cease to be important.
We have left whatever we won or lost down below.
From the top of a mountain you can see
how large the world is and how wide the horizon.
Paulo Coelho
#53. Using a fisherman's net with large holes will only catch big fish; letting the smaller ones escape unharmed. It is a lot like life: focusing only on one golden opportunity lets the smaller ones slip away unnoticed. However, starting small will catch larger opportunities over time.
Adam Santo
#54. I'm not a big fan of my books going on cross-country road trips. They get arrogant and, next thing, start aspiring to become 'large-print' books. I say, let them stay home and be regular small-print books.
George Saunders
#55. Chiropractic is health insurance. Premiums small. Dividends large!
B. J. Palmer
#56. A strike is an incipient revolution. Many large revolutions have grown out of a small strike.
Bill Haywood
#57. We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, and we lie to ourselves about our largest life choices.
Cortney S. Warren
#58. I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way.
Mark Twain
#59. Without even thinking about it, my son uses technology in almost everything he does, large and small.
Christina Baker Kline
#60. Heroism doesn't always happen in a burst of glory. Sometimes small triumphs and large hearts change the course of history. Sometimes a chicken can save a man's life.
Mary Roach
#61. At the beginning of a dynasty, taxation yields a large revenue from small assessments. At the end of the dynasty, taxation yields a small revenue from large assessments.
Ibn Khaldun
#62. America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
Arnold Joseph Toynbee
#63. The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. Before long the world will be cloven with a war between the telescopists and the microscopists. The first study large things and live in a small world; the second study small things and live in a large world.
G.K. Chesterton
#64. Charles realized his Academy office was far too small to contain the five feet of green eyed fury in front of his desk. Although, in fairness, an airship hanger might not have been large enough.
Eric James Spannerman
#65. Injustice, large and small, was like sour, moldy bread. Consumed often enough, it brought on hunger for the meat of revenge.
B.V. Lawson
#66. Dream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.
Donald Wills Douglas
#67. At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large and murky room.
H.L. Mencken
#68. I write in an old-school paneled study in the middle of a large farmhouse in rural Iowa. I have pine floors, a big cherry desk, and a small window. The room is cluttered with papers and books and gifts from friends.
Dean Bakopoulos
#69. Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.
Mark Rothko
#70. Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones.
Gina Greenlee
#71. Well you'd see a very dramatic change in the perspective of small businesses, entrepreneurs, middle-size businesses, and perhaps even some large multinationals. They'd say, you know what, America looks like a good place to invest again, a good place to take risk, a good place to hire again.
Mitt Romney
#72. I think we're put out into the world to forge relationships with people. Those can be as small as buying coffee from someone or as large as a marriage. The important thing is that we try to make connections or have experiences with other humans. Otherwise what's the point of being on this earth?
Laurel Nakadate
#73. Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be instructed by their people in great truths.
Norman Cousins
#74. It had been well known for twenty years that the distribution of large and small earthquakes followed a particular mathematical pattern, precisely the same scaling pattern that seemed to govern the distribution of personal incomes in a free-market economy.
James Gleick
#75. Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large that which is small.
Leonardo Da Vinci
#76. Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
Tom Peters
#77. Social media technology creates a culture in which people turn into little brand managers, using Facebook, twitter, text messages to create a falsely upbeat, slightly overexuberant, external self that can be famous first in a small sphere and then, with luck, in a large one.
David Brooks
#78. In a small room one does not say what one would in a large room.
Louis Kahn
#80. Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large.
Anaxagoras
#81. Hey! My body may be small, but my soul is large. It's why I wear platforms. So I can reach the top of my soul.
Laini Taylor
#82. Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception. There is no reason why we should not rebel in a large way too.
Richard Dawkins
#83. Over the years, Charlie [Munger, Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman] and I have observed many accounting -based frauds of staggering size. Few of the perpetrators have been punished; many have not even been censured. It has been far safer to steal large sums with pen than small sums with a gun.
Warren Buffett
#84. Assembly, while extremely powerful, is simply too difficult to program large applications and hard to read or interpret in a logical way. C is a compiled language, which creates fast and efficient executable files. It is also a small "what you see is all you get" language:
Wiki Books
#85. Our names and titles are assigned randomly by a small monkey who has been fed an exceedingly large amount of gin.
Brandon Sanderson
#86. We weathered all things, large and small, with the same vigor.
Patti Smith
#87. You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller.
Kathryn Davis
#88. Our take was that if we are going to support our customers, we have to help them with video distribution, whether that is iPad, TV, small screen or large screen.
Hans Vestberg
#89. We do not believe in oversupplying the market. When you are a large company, you can afford to do it. When you are a small player, your flexibility gets reduced.
Lakshmi Mittal
#90. Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do
Charles Fillmore
#91. Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
Hesiod
#92. There have been discussions of doing 'The Demon Cycle' on both large and small screen scale, and while there is no project currently in development, I think the series has both the big imagery and complex character development to have legs either as a TV series or film franchise.
Peter V. Brett
#93. The first thing he saw in the small room was a large clock on the wall which already showed ten o'clock.
Franz Kafka
#94. I love theater work because of the immediate effect your performance has on the audience. And I love the repetition; I love getting on the same stage for more than a month and reciting the same lines, trying to make a small or large step towards an improvement in my acting.
Alfred Molina
#95. On the one hand, the falsest judgments, whether based on isolated facts or only on appearances, always embrace some truths whose sphere, whether large or small, affords room for a certain number of inferences, beyond which we fall into absurdity.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
#96. There is no act too small, no act too bold. The history of social change is the history of millions of actions, small and large, coming together at critical points to create a power that governments cannot suppress.
Howard Zinn
#97. Life is attention to both the large and the small, little brother. Pay heed to the sun, but watch your feet, or you'll fall ingloriously on your nose.
Mercedes Lackey
#98. Help each user personally. Sure that won't scale to a very large size, but when a startup is just starting out, it really helps you have an advantage as a small and nimble company.
John Collison
#99. It is not easy to be at peace in today's troubled world. Necessarily peace is a personal acquisition. ... It can be attained only through maintaining constantly a repentant attitude, seeking forgiveness of sins both large and small, and thus coming ever closer to God.
Spencer W. Kimball
#100. The world is large, dear Will, and we, no matter how much we would like to pretend otherwise, we are quite small.
Rick Yancey
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