Largesse Quotes

#1. Government has really been growing, a lot of largesse, but the people in the real world aren't. And that's what has to change. Government has no conformity at all with the real world.

Michele Bachmann

#2. I had begun to write novels because of a fierce, self-serving impulse in my own heart. I had not considered the potential in a book for felt communion, the bright largesse of intimately participating in the lives of other people.

Sue Monk Kidd

#3. As I watch government at all levels daily eat away at our freedom, I keep thinking how prosperity and government largesse have combined to make most of us fat and lazy and indifferent to, or actually in favor of, the limits being placed on that freedom.

Lyn Nofziger

#4. To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

Charles Williams

#5. None of us find yoga. We are not that smart. Yoga finds us. We are taken up by it. It is nothing more than pure grace. We don't make this happen. We are the very fortunate recipients of this divine largesse.

Chris Kilham

#6. There is something gratuitous about creation, an unnecessary abundance of beauty, and through its blossoms and pleasures we can revel in the sheer largesse of the Father.

Michael Reeves

#7. Without that assured American largesse Israel would have been obliged to come to an accommodation with her neighbours.

Mary Douglas

#8. The dignity of the individual demands that he be not reduced to vassalage by the largesse of others.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#9. The problem we are faced with is that the meteorological establishment and the global warming lobby research bodies which receive large funding are now apparently so corrupted by the largesse they receive that the scientists in them have sold their integrity.

Piers Corbyn

#10. Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

Gary Bauer

#11. No republic has long outlived the discovery by a majority of its people that they could vote themselves largesse from the public treasury.

Alexander Fraser Tytler

#12. I shake my head at his largesse, and I frown as a scene from Tess crosses my mind: the strawberry scene. It evokes my dream. To hell with Dr. Flynn - Freud would have a field day - and then he'd probably die trying to deal with Fifty Shades.

E.L. James

#13. I do not know much. But there are certain advantages in not knowing. Like virgin territory, the mind is free of preconceptions. Everything I do not know forms the greater part of me: This is my largesse. And with this I understand everything. The things I do not know constitute my truth.

Clarice Lispector

#14. Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars

Holless Wilbur Allen

#15. Art daunts us with its cold exacting dullness, kitsch gratifies us (with cosy democratic largesse).

Mike Curran

#16. Ignored Truslow, trusting instead in the Colonel's largesse.

Bernard Cornwell

#17. Poverty is less a matter of income than of prospects. While the incomes of the poor have steadily risen through Great Society largesse, their prospects have plummeted as families have broken into dependent fragments.

George Gilder

#18. Our Founders warned against this. They said don't ... that your liberty is only as secure as the people are. Because once they, um, get the ability to vote themselves entitlements from the largesse of the government, liberty is done; freedom is over with. We were warned. We are there.

Sharron Angle

#19. You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.

Alexander Skarsgard

#20. The duty that we owe to the Universe is our religion.

Krishnananda Saraswati

#21. When I'm winning, winning, winning with a certain way why would I mess with that? When I realised there was lot to be gained from failing in some people's eyes, it made it all the more interesting!

Bob Mould

#22. We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.

Dave Eggers

#23. My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn't think I would make it.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#24. If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school.

Don Van Vliet

#25. That looks bad. Your ear is as red as a boiled lobster. I guess the Toutain's have diversified their portfolio of geeks to pick on this year. That's wise considering the geekonomic times we're living in now.

Joel T. McGrath

#26. War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

Alfred Hermann Fried

#27. Listen, you impossible creature," he said, "I'm a century and more older than
"
"Oh, be quiet," I said impatiently.

Naomi Novik

#28. I started understanding William Blake and George Orwell more and more. It's amazing how we go to school when we're so young, read all of these books, just trying to memorize them. When you start to live, you don't have to memorize anything.

Benjamin Clementine

#29. Evolution has weaved the fabric of life into a blanket of many colours.

Matt Egner