Top 100 Quotes About Bigger Things
#1. The stories are there first, and they come from my experiences wandering around in the world. They will resonate into bigger things, forces sweeping the planet, themes and archetypes, but I'm not smart enough to have lucid integration of all that in my head as I'm writing.
Bob Shacochis
#2. I don't understand, Why do I stress the man, When there's so many bigger things at hand?
Amy Winehouse
#3. There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.
Peter Benchley
#4. till he'd tried it. You have to understand. There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't know fear. He might be cautious -
Peter Benchley
#5. We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity ...
Eleanor Roosevelt
#6. There are bigger things to worry about. Bigger things than unrequited love and false kisses.
Janet Gurtler
#7. Living a comfortable life can allow you the psychic space needed to focus on other, often bigger, things and when you treat your possessions as emblems of your hard work, they inherit a meaning that transcends the objects themselves.
Sophia Amoruso
#8. Dark witches do the bigger things," Chaston offered. "And our powers are a hell of a lot stronger. We can make barrier spells, and if we're really good, control the weather. We're also necromancers if
" "Whoa!" I held up my hand. "Necromancers? Like, power over dead things?
Rachel Hawkins
#10. In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.
Katherine Dunham
#11. Money and riches don't mean nothing to me. I don't care nothing about being no rich individual. I'm not living for glory or for fame; all this is doomed for destruction. You got it today, tomorrow it's gone. I got bigger things on my mind than that. I got Islam on my mind.
Muhammad Ali
#12. You know what i like about buttons? They're very small things that hold bigger things together. Awfully important, buttons - little but strong.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#13. There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration crises. It's weird to be self-absorbed in it.
Jim Shaw
#14. We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.
Hunter S. Thompson
#15. But yet I don't think I should be labeled just a black quarterback, because it's bigger things in this sport that need to be accomplished.
Cam Newton
#16. When there is a respect for small things, there will be an even greater respect towards the bigger things. When there is no respect for small things, then neither will there be for the bigger ones. This is how the Fathers maintained Tradition.
Elder Paisios Of Mount Athos
#17. Until we are ready to let go of some things, bigger things don't come to us.
Sunday Adelaja
#18. Writing sketches, you're also learning about a journey and characters, and you translate that to bigger things.
Jim Rash
#19. Bigger things than the State will fall, all religion will fall.
Henrik Ibsen
#20. Then of course there are bigger things that matter, like who do I see up there in the congregation? Do I see myself up there? Well, I don't.
Michael Emerson
#21. Australians are very provincial in many ways. If they feel that you've used them as a stepping stone to bigger things, they resent it.
Graham Russell
#22. There are bigger things than love.
Kiera Cass
#23. I found going to school when I was modeling very grounding. It's really kept my perspective on bigger things in my life.
Lily Cole
#24. People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.
Christo
#25. Realize that little things lead to bigger things.
Pete Seeger
#26. Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.
Herbert Kaufman
#27. Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.
Edward Abbey
#28. I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I want to do more. I want to do bigger things.
Nik Wallenda
#29. Yes, the party had been delightful, but there was more to the world than that. Bigger things, more beautiful things, more real things.
Sarah J. Maas
#30. If you will lie about the little things, before long you'll lie about bigger things.
Joel Osteen
#31. Be thankful when you find yourself worrying about the smallest things, for it often means there aren't any bigger things to truly worry about.
Joyce Rachelle
#32. It's not. There are bigger things than love.
Kiera Cass
#33. I just want to keep going for broke, making bigger and bigger things like 'Lord of the Rings' until they kick me out of Hollywood. I just want to do the biggest thing I can.
Evan Goldberg
#34. She was surprised at how tiny the school seemed now. She supposed it was just as big as it had ever been only her eyes had grown used to looking at bigger things.
Betty Smith
#36. The small things are the fuses to get the bigger things to explode.
Roseanne Cheng
#37. Dreams don't have deadlines. I'm thinking of doing bigger and better things and having more fun with it.
LL Cool J
#38. The budgets are much higher now, it costs more to make a movie and the kids that go to see them are into instant gratification. They want things bigger and bigger. I don't make those kind of movies. I make movies about relationships.
Jerry Weintraub
#39. Love required sacrifice and making hard choices and doing things that were bigger than just you. It wasn't something you asked for, or could control or change. It was something you accepted. Love was a force of nature.
Kimberly Derting
#40. I find with television, you have to play personality, whereas onstage, everyone talks about 'the character,' and what you do. It's a very different thing, because stage is much bigger, but on television, for things to come across to the public, I think you have to play a bit of your personality.
John Barrowman
#41. You're bigger than the toys. We are always bigger than the things we make. Put them away. Make something new with your life, with your own mind and hands.
Hannu Rajaniemi
#42. If you can think outside the box or you can think bigger than that, then that will keep you centered in this earth, in this planet. I think with me I always believed in God but after certain things happened to me that's when I knew without a doubt.
Ryan Montgomery
#43. Anything that is within you is a gift. To be able to take possession of that and say, "Whatever it is, I am bigger than it," is to learn to cherish even the hard and painful things.
John Darnielle
#44. I think there's no harm, sometimes, to feel on the edge of things. If you're on the margins you can see a bigger picture. And I actually quite like standing at a peculiar angle to the universe.
Dermot Bolger
#45. We have to be bigger than the things we suffer.
Shelly Crane
#46. What we miss is how unsustainable that is. Even bigger is the idea that we as a nation are not made up of businesses, banks, malls, markets, homes or things. Our greatest asset is ourselves: our lives and our people. The real investment should be there.
Brian Ulrich
#47. You are not a human being. You are not your body, you are not your mind, and you are not your soul. These are things that You have. The You that has these things - indeed, that has given your Self these things - is far bigger than any of them, and even all of them put together.
Neale Donald Walsch
#48. Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger - except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.
Warren St. John
#49. At the end of it all, what flashes before our eyes won't be all the things we did that were bigger than ourselves; they'll be all the moments when we made a difference by being true to ourselves.
Conari Press
#50. In the bigger scheme of things the universe is not asking us to do something, the universe is asking us to be something. And that's a whole different thing.
Lucille Clifton
#51. Things slow down, the ball seems a lot bigger and you feel like you have more time. Everything computes - you have options, but you always take the right one.
John McEnroe
#52. I feel that your ambitions should always exceed the budget. That no matter what budget you're doing, you should be dreaming bigger than the budget you have, and then it's a matter of reigning it in to the reality. You try to make things count.
Guillermo Del Toro
#53. Even though I had a rough life I always had my mind on bigger and better things.
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#54. Sometimes, when she's out here alone, she can feel the pulse of something bigger, as if all things animate were beating in unison, a glory and a connection that sweeps her out of herself, out of her consciousness, so that nothing has a name, not in Latin, not in English, not in any known language.
T.C. Boyle
#55. Money, for me, is just to create bigger and better things. A lot of guys in the deejaying world flaunt it, but I don't see any use in that. I don't need anything. I live in hotels. Most of my clothes I get for free. I like to invest in ideas. In people.
Diplo
#56. Fatigue is your friend. Through exhaustion and through people just being so depleted, the stuff around the nerve endings gets worn away and other things begin to emerge and you take way bigger risks.
Lorne Michaels
#57. If young people wished, they have it in their hands to make a bigger, more beautiful and better world, but that they occupy themselves with superficial things, without giving a thought to real beauty.
Anne Frank
#58. Go ahead and do things, the bigger the better, if your fundamentals are sound. Avoid procrastination. Do not quibble for an hour over things that might be decided in minutes. However, if the issue at stake is large, stay as long as the next man, but go ahead and do things.
John J. Raskob
#59. Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex ... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher
#60. We don't really want a huge house, but we want the house to be slightly bigger than our neighbors, and a car that is bigger than our neighbor's, and they're going on vacation that's slightly more expensive, and this escalation happens that things got out of hand.
Dan Ariely
#61. As writers, we feel things deeper than other people, we hurt more, we love bigger, we cry harder and we smile wider. This is the essence, the fuel, to what we do.
H.D. Gordon
#62. Every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world, it's doing a couple things: it's empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it's also making the statement that we are all bigger than this; we're a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that.
Lizzo
#63. I think almost all manic depressives exhibit some kind of criminal behaviour, even if it's something as minimal as shoplifting, but then they often go on to bigger and better things - in my case, it was fraud.
Andy Behrman
#64. I think there's an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.
Meg Ryan
#65. There is a special mystique to Texas. Texans represent many things to the uninitiated: We are bigger than life in our boots and Stetsons, rugged individualists whose two-steppin' has achieved world-wide acclaim, and we were the first to define hospitality.
Ann Richards
#66. Cause hearts are amazing things. They get lots bigger to make room for new people to love alongside the old people you love. -Simi
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#67. I think it's important to look at the world as a bigger place than just the bubble that we live in. It's so easy to get caught up in things of a trivial nature.
Pete Wentz
#68. My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.
Kevin Hart
#69. Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
Raf Simons
#70. It's easier not to make a particular joke in case it offends. But every joke will offend someone, and I've always believed that the audience is bigger than one person. The danger is that things will become bland.
David Walliams
#71. It sometimes happens that you just know ... You have a feeling that things are coinciding, and that they operate and work on a number of levels - obviously visual aesthetics, but also content and narrative in terms of the bigger picture. When document and metaphor come together.
Paolo Pellegrin
#72. My first world title gave me the confidence to go and do bigger and better things.
Ricky Hatton
#73. The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.
Steven Johnson
#74. I've written a lot about drugs and alcohol. I wouldn't say it's because we've gotten bigger or anything, but I kind of feel a little bit done with it. There are other things to talk about.
Craig Finn
#75. Even if things were the same, people's perception of them might have been very different back then. The darkness of night was probably deeper then, so the moon must have been that much bigger and brighter.
Haruki Murakami
#76. America provided things that form the foundation of who we used to be: the prospect and potential of hope, mercy, and freedom for strangers who came carrying not much more than a determination to survive in a big country with a bigger heart.
Mike Barnicle
#77. I've been through my highs, I've been through my lows; I've been through the gamut of all things in this business. Being too thin. Being bigger. I've been criticized for being on both sides of the scale. It's noise I block out automatically. I love my body.
Christina Aguilera
#78. Few things will pay you bigger dividends in life than the time and trouble you take to understand people and build relationships. As
John C. Maxwell
#79. I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.
Jeffrey Donovan
#80. Whispers, that's what she calls them. They're signs, small sounds, or little reminders, letting you know that there's something bigger than us out there. That there's a force working hard to make things right in the universe.
Renee Carlino
#81. I find that the more willing I am to be grateful for the small things in life, the bigger stuff just seems to show up from unexpected sources, and I am constantly looking forward to each day with all the surprises that keep coming my way!
Louise Hay
#82. Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is.
Terry Pratchett
#83. Psychology is much bigger than just medicine, or fixing unhealthy things. It's about education, work, marriage - it's even about sports. What I want to do is see psychologists working to help people build strengths in all these domains.
Martin Seligman
#84. Some things are bigger than your happiness.
Brent Weeks
#85. So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things.
Peter Carey
#86. We never reach our ideals, whether of mental or moral improvement, but the thought of them shows us our deficiencies, and spurs us on to higher and better things.
Tryon Edwards
#87. One of the things I regret is that magazines now are so lifestyle-orientated that the opportunity to do bigger projects is gone. This is a serious misjudgment on the part of magazine editors.
Martin Parr
#88. You can't change in your own power. If you feel overwhelmed by something bigger than you, let the one who is bigger than all things be the power you need in your weakness.
Craig Groeschel
#89. Guys. It's three things with you. My dick is bigger than yours, I make more money than you and I can beat the fuck outta you."
Add in I can outdrink you, outdrive you and whip your ass at cards and that's the brain of a man.
Lorelei James
#90. I am Merc and there are three things you should know about me. Number one. You might be bigger, but I will last longer. Number two. If you fuck me, I fuck everything you ever loved. And number three. I never lose. My victory is only delayed.
J.A. Huss
#91. Resistance, in the form of opposition or lack of support from others is often a sign telling you to move forward and on to bigger and better things.
Miya Yamanouchi
#92. We are all on a collision course with ourselves. Inevitably, our existing habits will be counter-productive to achieving our bigger picture goals. To avoid the crash, we need to regularly review how we are doing things and make adjustments as needed.
John Fairclough
#93. The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things ... the trivial pleasure like cooking, one's home, little poems especially sad ones, solitary walks, funny things seen and overheard.
Barbara Pym
#94. Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).
Tony Hsieh
#95. I do the things I like to do. It's sort of a bigger version of having more than one hobby.
Harry Connick Jr.
#96. Even if it's got a bigger problem, he's an engineer!" Dialing, he added, "Fixing things is his job!
Andy Weir
#97. I think it's always good to take on things that at first seem bigger than you. Then you just try and surmount them.
Cate Blanchett
#98. It would have been really easy to spiral down into drugs or alcohol that year, for both of us. But instead we were there, together. We'd taken all the bad things that had happened to us and turned them around into something good and bigger than the two of us.
Keary Taylor
#99. Fantasy isn't about escape; it's a survival mechanism. It's a way to deal with things that are so much bigger than you are. So I think fantasy is special, something to be cherished and protected because it's a very fragile thing and without it, we're so defenseless, we're paralyzed.
The Martian Child David Gerrold
#100. A lot of people agree that tidying is connected to how we live, and even though, outside of Japan, houses might be bigger, people have more things than they need.
Marie Kondo
