Top 100 Larger Than Quotes
#2. The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed centre.
Hartley Coleridge
#3. If there's a will, there's a way!
I feel larger than LIFE
and look up to the stars who shine down on me and have become my own personal cheerleaders ... as my fingers tap on my computer late into the night..
Donna Scrima-Black
#4. For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.
Richard Attias
#5. You are much larger than anything you encounter while you sleep. Everything that happens in dream takes place on a small stage in a corner of your mind.
J. Aleksandr Wootton
#6. Romance ... affection ... these are what give our lives value. They justify all the suffering of life. My goal is to always reinvent heroic romances and present larger-than-life characters that will inspire readers to fall in love and expand their own lives.
Chuck Palahniuk
#7. An actor should never be larger than the film he's in.
Christian Bale
#8. There are a lot of very flamboyant and outlandish people and attention-seekers in L.A., and I think that's what makes L.A. appealing. A lot of people are attracted to come here to do things and make things happen and the city seems to attract larger-than-life characters.
Roman Coppola
#9. I'm mostly a historical romance reader, but I never miss a Susan Elizabeth Phillips book. Her characters are larger than life and heartbreakingly real at the same time. I don't know how she does it.
Julia Quinn
#10. They just want to be part of the moment. A moment that's much larger than them, and even larger than us.
Goldy Moldavsky
#11. Larger than life ... I've never understood that expression. What's larger than life?
Nicole Krauss
#12. Often an idea has impact far larger than the person who originated it.
Ramez Naam
#13. We'd end up with a mole planet slightly larger than the Moon.
Randall Munroe
#14. If the thickness is larger than the critical value I can produce an explosion.
Leo Szilard
#15. A.I.G. was even larger than Lehman, with a substantial presence in derivatives and debt markets, as well as in insurance markets.
Ben Bernanke
#16. I'm hardly digging trenches for a living. I'm getting to tap into my boyhood fantasies of being a larger-than-life character.
Joel Edgerton
#17. The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.
Stanislaw Lem
#18. I think I'm comfortable making myself, or my speaker, larger than life if I can then cut myself off at the ankles. The way, in "My Major Prize," the speaker does this drippy performance of sadness and poetry for some unnamed prize committee, only he lets us know that it's all a wry game.
Randall Mann
#19. The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices and behaviors of its members.
Rushworth Kidder
#20. Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
Gregory Maguire
#22. I like the rock documentaries that make it seem real. Some rock documentaries are meant to make the bands look larger than life.
Dave Grohl
#23. 1,000 out of the world's 6,000 languages, crammed into an area only slightly larger than that of Texas,
Jared Diamond
#24. Once I opened my mind to the concept of a greater power, I never struggled with it. Everywhere I went, I felt and saw the existence of a creative intelligence in this universe, of a loving power larger than myself in nature, in people, everywhere.
Anthony Kiedis
#25. I guess I'm larger than life. That's my problem.
Bette Davis
#26. The great thing I like about the sci-fi genre is there's a lot of different latitude for a lot of different kinds of behavior. You can be a very larger-than-life villain, or a very naturalistic villain, and all of it seems to fit.
Mark Pellegrino
#27. America, 5 years after this brutal attack, is testament that a Nation conceived in liberty and equality will endure. It is a triumph of millions of Americans but it is also the triumph of an idea larger than any one person, larger than any one nation.
Nick Rahall
#29. We've been wrong about what our job is in medicine. We think our job is to ensure health and survival. But really it is larger than that. It is to enable well-being.
Atul Gawande
#30. Miss Pringle was not much larger than the handheld personal assistants of his own age, and usually lived, like the Old West's Colt 45, in a quick-draw holster at his waist.
Arthur C. Clarke
#31. The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us
Diana Nyad
#32. When I'm working in the real world with real women and we're shopping, we find that fashion seems to end when you get any larger than a size 12. How ridiculous is that?
Tim Gunn
#33. A new regulation for the publishing industry: The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.
Calvin Trillin
#34. You get to bring your own sound system when you play an arena, all the lights and visual stuff, which I think is really cool. There's something about those old arenas, where it feels larger than life.
Dan Auerbach
#35. The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.
Kristin Gore
#36. I'm hoping what all sentient beings hope ... that somehow I'm part of something larger than myself, in which I play a role, an actual role that is somehow intended and meaningful.
Anne Rice
#37. In order to be truly happy, you must live along with, and you must stand for something larger than yourself.
Oprah Winfrey
#38. Afraid of damn near everything. But I refuse to let it paralyze me. I won't be the woman who cowers behind four walls, never taking chances. I want to die like I've lived. I always wanted to be larger than life.
Ann Aguirre
#39. I always feel, I guess being a product of the movies of the 40s where movies were the greatest things and screens were big and palaces were palaces and stars were larger than life that reality was so much inferior to what we felt was conceivably possible from what we had seen in the movies.
Woody Allen
#40. Dedicate (donate, give all) your life to something larger than yourself and pleasure - to the largest thing you can: to God, to relieving suffering, to contributing to knowledge, to adding to literature, or something else. Happiness lies this way, and it beats pleasure hollow.
Annie Dillard
#41. Sometimes, photographs live in our hearts as unborn ghosts and we survive not because their shadows find permanence there, but because that thing that is larger than us, larger than the things we can point to, remember and claim, escorts us from dark into light ...
Laurel Nakadate
#42. Thunderstorms were rare in California, but when they came they were, like most things in California, larger than life.
Helen McCloy
#43. The secret of success is to realize that the crisis on our planet is much larger than just deciding what to do with your own life.
Marianne Williamson
#44. George Oppen wasn't a larger than life personality, but I'm not either. And he lived a long time, so he was happy. Going down in flames is fine, too.
Stephen Malkmus
#45. For what does it mean to be a hero? It requires you to be
prepared to deal with forces larger than yourself.
Norman Mailer
#46. You can't get any movement larger than five people without including at least one fucking idiot.
Kim Stanley Robinson
#47. The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.
Raymond E. Feist
#48. People have found inner peace by losing themselves in a cause larger than themselves. Finding inner peace means coming from the self-centered life into the life centered.
Peace Pilgrim
#49. I would not be surprised if elephants are more intelligent than human beings. After all, their heads are larger than ours, and the fact that they do not speak might well be an indication of superiority.
Gore Vidal
#50. You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing.
Joan Osborne
#51. Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.
Philibert Joseph Roux
#52. Writing provides no guarantees. And writers who stay with writing do it for reasons that are larger than self.
Jayne Anne Phillips
#53. We play some smaller songs larger than they are the record, and vice versa. It took me a while to get used to playing live.
Iron & Wine
#54. The best things aren't perfectly constructed. They aren't illusions. they aren't larger than life. They are life.
Nina LaCour
#55. Cowardice shuts the eyes till the sky is not larger than a calf-skin: shuts the eyes so that we cannot see the horse that is running away with us; worse, shuts the eyes of the mind and chills the heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#56. 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
#58. I crocheted a blanket larger than a king-size bed. I just kept going.
Brooke Elliott
#59. I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'
Bharati Mukherjee
#60. Real love opens doors to something larger than oneself.
Phyllis Theroux
#61. Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.
Paulo Coelho
#62. The psychedelic universe, whatever it is, is the major datum of experience. It's larger than this planet. Nobody knows how large it is. The further in you go the bigger it gets. We don't know what to make of something like that. It's the reverse of our expectations.
Terence McKenna
#63. On land, every animal larger than a cat seems to have died out.
Elizabeth Kolbert
#64. No matter what a man does, he is not fully sane or human unless there is a spirit of freedom in him, a soul unconfined by purpose and larger than the practicable world.
Charles Horton Cooley
#65. Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea.
Stephen Crane
#66. In our human imagination, we so often perceive our Heroes to be something larger than life. We exalt them in ways that do them a disservice ... we convince ourselves that they are or were something essentially different than the rest of us.
Ravi Zacharias
#67. Direct popular government of a state larger than a city state had already failed therefore in Italy, because as yet there was no public education, no press, and no representative system; it had failed though these mere mechanical difficulties, before the first Punic War.
H.G.Wells
#68. All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.
Robert Darnton
#69. Our social and political tasks, if we take them seriously, loom larger than life. Yet infinite responsibility destroys a human being because he is only a man and not god." ~ p.23
Jurgen Moltmann
#70. Well, the next attack in the United States will be larger than 9/11. And there's no doubt that if they have a weapon of mass destruction, they'll use it.
Michael Scheuer
#71. The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths
but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path.
C.S. Lewis
#72. I also readily admit that there are animals, taken in the ordinary sense, that are incomparably larger than those we know of, and I have sometimes said in jest that there might be a system like ours which is the pocketwatch of some enormous giant.
Gottfried Leibniz
#73. Today, the gap between productivity and compensation for the typical worker is larger than at any time since World War II.
David Rolf
#74. Myth is necessary because reality is so much larger than rationality ... man is fundamentally mythic ... His real health depends upon his knowing and living his metaphysical totality.
Clyde S. Kilby
#75. I think A Midsummer Night's Dream would be terrific because of the transformations that occur. Or The Tempest, things like that. Extraordinary larger than life or supernatural element.
Kenneth Branagh
#76. The courage to go deeper is found by letting your desire grow larger than your fear.
Oriah Dreamer
#77. I liked being in a smaller theater. I love doing shows of all sizes, but sometimes it's nice to be in a smaller space and to strip away some of the music so that you can be a little less than larger-than-life; you can be a little more naturalistic.
Max Von Essen
#78. When I use the word spirituality, I don't necessarily mean religion; I mean whatever it is that helps you feel connected to something that is larger than yourself.
Dean Ornish
#79. I have been raised to believe in freedom of thought and speech. If a minority wishes to accept that position it's their right. What I fear is that this minority may seem to be larger than it truly is. What is strange is that there are still people who believe the world is not a globe.
Richard Leakey
#80. They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like ... smaller than real gods, but larger than apartment gods?
Rick Riordan
#81. To find a cause that's larger than yourself and then to give your life to it.
Shimon Peres
#82. Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.
Grace Slick
#83. Was just very compact, not much larger than a standard wardrobe. But it was a marvel of ergonomics. It included
Bill Bryson
#84. The problem is that string theory is defined at an energy scale that is about ten million billion times larger than those we can experimentally explore with our current instruments.
Lisa Randall
#85. I do like my rock stars to be a little larger than life. I don't mind the earnest ones at all, but I do like a bit of individuality.
Elton John
#86. Climate change is a result of the greatest market failure the world has seen ... We risk damages on a scale larger than the two world wars of the last century.
Nicholas Stern
#87. The federal government is far larger than the Founding Fathers ever intended it to be. We have racked up over $16 trillion of debt through wasteful spending, and it is time that we cut that waste and start reducing the size of our government.
Matt Salmon
#88. Businesses are not just local or even national anymore - good ideas are immediately global. So the market opportunities are much larger than we've ever imagined or seen.
Alfred Lin
#89. People like Jefferson, Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony and M. L. K. are larger than life to me. I find myself staring at photographs of Lincoln almost in disbelief that he was a man who walked the earth and not merely some fiction writer's creation.
Henry Rollins
#90. Piety is a discipline of the will through respect. It admits the right to exist of things larger than the ego, of things different from the ego.
Richard M. Weaver
#91. Everything has style, everything's a little bit larger than life and done with mischief
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#92. He extends a hand, larger than a dinner plate, and I have no choice but to shake it. I think I can feel my metacarpals shattering. Julian jumps to summon our waitress again, mostly to avoid shaking hands with this Goliath. "And a pitcher of mimosas, as soon as humanly possible.
Kristopher Jansma
#93. It is then he realises that certain things loom larger than forgiveness and reconciliation: memory, for one, and history, bloody history.
Omar Musa
#94. Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.
John McCain
#95. Some people are larger than life. Hitler is larger than death.
Don DeLillo
#96. Something happen inside me as I looked out into the vast universe. Through that telescope, the world was closer and larger than I'd ever imagined. And it was all so beautiful and overwhelming and- I don't know- it make me aware that there was something inside of me that mattered.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#97. Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans, lakes of methane, worldlets that swap places ... and that's just at Saturn.
Phil Plait
#99. We have reached a profound point in economic history where the truth is unpalatable to the political class - and that truth is that the scale and magnitude of the problem is larger than their ability to respond - and it terrifies them.
Hugh Hendry
#100. The Hoff has become larger than life, so I can't do anything small any more. If I mess up, it becomes big no matter what it is, so if I do something positive, it has to be equally big.
David Hasselhoff
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