Largeness Quotes

#1. The Sunflow'r, thinking 'twas for him foul shame To nap by daylight, strove t' excuse the blame; It was not sleep that made him nod, he said, But too great weight and largeness of his head.

Abraham Cowley

#2. It is only by understanding the cultural complexity and largeness of the concept of agriculture that we can see the threatening diminishments implied by the term 'agribusiness.'

Wendell Berry

#3. The gate is narrow but not the life. The gate opens out into largeness of life.

Elisabeth Elliot

#4. They all - Malcolm with his houses, Willem with his girlfriends, JB with his paints, he with his razors - sought comfort, something that was theirs alone, something to hold off the terrifying largeness, the impossibility, of the world, of the relentlessness of its minutes, its hours, its days.

Hanya Yanagihara

#5. Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

Edmund Waller

#6. Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,
balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.

Jeremy Collier

#7. His largeness lorded over his chair like a giant unripened pumpkin rolling onto an egg cup.

Jack Flanagan

#8. If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the world you can see and touch - the everyday world that is too easily dismissed as everyday - you see largeness, generosity, hope, change for the better. It's always small, but it's real.

Richard Flanagan

#9. There is a largeness about mathematics that transcends race and time; mathematics may humbly help in the market-place, but it also reaches to the stars.

Robert Turnbull

#10. People who live with largeness of soul are occupied by large problems.

John Ortberg

#11. Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

William James

#12. There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness.

George Eliot

#13. Largeness is a lifelong matter - sometimes a conscious goal, sometimes not. You enlarge yourself because that is the kind of individual you are. You grow because you are not content not to.

Wallace Stegner

#14. When the sins of our fathers visit us
We do not have to play host.
We can banish them with forgiveness
As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.

August Wilson

#15. Greatness is not always largeness.

Maud Lindsay

#16. They seemed to share the kindliness and largeness of John Thornton.

Jack London

#17. Largeness is a lifelong matter. You grow because you are not content not to. You are like a beaver that chews constantly because if it doesn't, it's teeth grow long and lock. You grow because you are a grower; you're large because you can't stand to be small.

Wallace Stegner

#18. Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians.

Ben Okri

#19. How we forgive narrowness of mind, when it accompanies largeness of heart. Yet no breadth of intellect exonerates want of feeling.

Graham Swift

#20. In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.

Barbara Kingsolver

#21. The real world is devoid of narratives, after all. Narratives are just a thing that our brains do with facts in order to draw a line around the incomprehensible largeness of reality and wrestle it into something learnable and manipulable. Existence is devoid of plot, theme, and most of all moral.

Charles Stross

#22. We must be equal to the largeness of things.

Don DeLillo

#23. Smallness is subversive, because smallness can creep into smaller places and wreak transformation at the most vulnerable, cellular level. In a time when largeness is threatening to topple us, I wish to remember and praise the beauty of smallness, in order to banish the Goliath of loneliness.

Sarah Ruhl

#24. How fickle it is, memory - preferring some days to others, granting first a blue sky, offering next the sound of laughter, swelling our remembrances until a largeness seeps into the grain of things and memory itself becomes billowed and flapping.

Sonja Livingston

#25. The personal ego identifies with a very limited part of the self and prevents you from recognizing the largeness of who you really are. When you let go of your ego and selfishness, you realize you are both part and all of everything.

Russell Anthony Gibbs

#26. She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

Doris Lessing

#27. All great people are humble because great people have great work and are humbled by the largeness of their dreams.

May Sarton

#28. God's love is meteoric, his loyalty astronomic, His purpose titanic, his verdicts oceanic. Yet in his largeness nothing gets lost; Not a man, not a mouse, slips through the cracks.

Anonymous

#29. The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man's increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.

Seth Low

#30. As Plato: We become more worthy the more we bend our minds to the impersonal. We become better as we take in the universe, thinking more about the largeness that it is and laugh about the smallness that is us.

Rebecca Goldstein

#31. The serenity of truth and the peace of death can be only secured through a largeness of contempt embracing all the profitable servitudes of life. He

Joseph Conrad

#32. The muscularity in my paintings is only an expression of the spirit within. When I paint Nephi, I'm painting the interior, the greatness, the largeness of spirit. Who knows what he looked like? I'm painting a man who looks like he could actually do what Nephi did.

Arnold Friberg