Quotes About Large And Small

#1. Military force is irrelevant to many of the most urgent threats we face. If we are to solve our myriad domestic problems and revitalize our economy we need to be more selective about our involvement in foreign crises large and small.

William Hartung

#2. All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning

Paulo Coelho

#3. Aren't we running out of things to discover? The short answer is 'no'. The long answer is also 'no'. There's still plenty of things we don't know, both large and small.

Andrew Shaffer

#4. I had grown into a worrier, a girl on constant guard for catastrophes large and small, for the disappointments I now sensed were hidden all around us right in plain sight.

Karen Thompson Walker

#5. That's a maker," Isidore said. "That's the way they are. Creativity in large and small ways defines their nature in everything they do.

Terry Goodkind

#6. I tape my list of goals, both large and small, above my bed so I can see them when I wake up. This holds me accountable.

Chris Solinsky

#7. 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

#8. Great paintings have gradations, large and small ... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention.

Robert Genn

#9. 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

#10. We are both large and small, strong and weak, formidable and faint, reflecting the image of the divine, and formed from dust.

Rob Bell

#11. On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher

#12. In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather than decreasing.

Nick Clooney

#13. There were large and small ones too. And some quite in-between. But all of equal nastiness.
And smelliness and ghastliness.
For they would eat a fellow up, as one might fish and chips

Robert Rankin

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes wonder if we'll survive our own ingenuity.

Diane Ackerman

#17. The real difference of interests, lay not between large and small, but between the Northern and Southern states. The institution of slavery and its consequences formed a line of discrimination.

James Madison

#18. Life is full of challenges large and small - each an invitation to retire old ways of thinking and to stretch toward new and better solutions.

Keith McFarland

#19. I may have overmothered you and screwed you up in ways large and small, but I think it's time you took some measure of responsibility for where you choose to put your own penis.

Jonathan Tropper

#20. Everyone has a secret life. Perhaps yours is merely a gossamer web of thoughts and fantasies woven in the hidden furrows of your mind. Or furtive deeds performed on the sly or betrayals large and small that, if revealed, would change how you are perceived.
-Dracula in Love by Karen Essex

Karen Essex

#21. Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations.

Francine Prose

#22. The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large and small cities across the US.

Jerry A. Webman

#23. The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.

Mitt Romney

#24. Affirming others isn't 'flattering' them - it's when you genuinely and consistently acknowledge their efforts and accomplishments, both large and small. Make affirmation a habit and watch what happens!

Lee Ellis

#25. In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.

George Crumb

#26. When you put more money in the pockets of working families, they spend it on groceries, gas, school supplies, and other goods and services. And that helps businesses grow and create jobs. So many forward-looking employers, large and small, understand this.

Thomas Perez

#27. For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.

Rebecca Solnit

#28. Dedicated to book lovers and book bloggers everywhere, those large and small.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#29. Without even thinking about it, my son uses technology in almost everything he does, large and small.

Christina Baker Kline

#30. [at the Constitutional Convention] the States were divided into different interests not by their difference of size, but principally from their having or not having slaves. It did not lie between the large and small States: it lay between the Northern and Southern.

James Madison

#31. We were fifteen months apart in age which meant everything was a competition; who could read all the Disney books the fastest, ride their bike further or know all answers to the universe both large and small.

K.L. Randis

#32. Lying about things large and small has become so accepted by so many that they even lie about lying.

Neale Donald Walsch

#33. Injustice, large and small, was like sour, moldy bread. Consumed often enough, it brought on hunger for the meat of revenge.

B.V. Lawson

#34. When I was a child I did engage in an arduous struggle to pass: learning English, getting rid of my accent, becoming conversant with the culture in all its large and small aspects.

Luc Sante

#35. Everything today is "transient." Technology and its ability to empower actors large and small evolve so quickly that we have to get used to living in a world that exists in a more or less constant state of flux.

Ian Bremmer

#36. 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

#37. Everything has a consciousness. Every atom and molecule is conscious. Every virus and bacteria is conscious. Every tree, large and small animals are conscious, but each level of consciousness is different. All humans are conscious; the level of consciousness among humans also differs.

Debasish Mridha

#38. Relief organizations both large and small are coordinating deliveries of food, clothing, water, and other basic necessities to those impacted by Katrina.

Jo Bonner

#39. Every day in America, African Americans are reminded of their race in ways large and small. Every day.

Jennifer Granholm

#40. To have a spirit of excellence gives you the courage to accept large and small tasks and also strive to learn from our mistakes.

Euginia Herlihy

#41. We weathered all things, large and small, with the same vigor.

Patti Smith

#42. In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Albert Einstein

#43. Businesses large and small shouldn't have to check the expiration date of a tax provision to see if it's still good.

Michael Enzi

#44. 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

#45. 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

#46. Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#47. I am hard at work on the second draft ... Second draft is really a misnomer as there are a gazillion revisions, large and small, that go into the writing of a book.

Libba Bray

#48. The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.

Nikita Khrushchev

#49. My mother's gifts of courage to me were both large and small. The latter are woven so subtly into the fabric of my psyche that I can hardly distinguish where she stops and I begin.

Maya Angelou

#50. I've found it freeing these last few months to let go of some insecurities, large and small, or at least to put them on hold. One

Rachel Friedman

#51. It is the government's strong desire to empower this fabric, this social fabric of our society where faith-based programs large and small feel empowered, encouraged, and welcomed into changing lives.

George W. Bush

#52. In the blood of scales and days of kings,
Will come a boy to save us all.
Let us pray to the gods above, our voices large and small.
For all we fear in the shadows, will be destroyed with light.
Talonsphere will rise from the ground, and bring fire to the night.

Peter Koevari

#53. My Mothers Gift of Courage To Me Were Both Large and Small.

Maya Angelou

#54. In Ghazalia, Mr. Hussein showed his contempt for the majority Shiites in ways large and small. He refused to allow them even one mosque, while the Sunnis had nearly a dozen. To worship, the Shiites had to cross an inconveniently located bridge over the sewage canal to Shula.

Alex Berenson

#55. Calculate what man knows and it cannot compare to what he doesn't know. Calculate the time he is alive and it cannot compare to the time before he was born. Yet man takes something so small and tries to exhaust the dimensions of something so large!

Zhuangzi

#56. May came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.

E. E. Cummings

#57. I think every once in a while I feel the need to break my medium ... if I have been doing a very large painting I like to drop into something in small scale. It is a challenge to go into this size. It is just to hold my own interest, and then each media has its own conditions.

Lee Krasner

#58. A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.

Boyd K. Packer

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. The American people want us to stop spending. And so let's just give them some certainty. Let's extend the tax - the existing tax cuts. And then let's give some more tax breaks to small businesses and large. And then maybe the American people will have some confidence.

John McCain

#62. As a population, if a large number of people make even small moves to eat less meat and more plant-based foods, the livestock industry will shrink. Over time, farmers will find other crops to support their livelihoods. Through such collective awakening we can make a difference in our world.

Nhat Hanh

#63. Many kingdoms and empires were in truth little more than large protection rackets. The king was the capo di tutti capi who collected protection money, and in return made sure that neighbouring crime syndicates and local small fry did not harm those under his protection. He did little else.

Yuval Noah Harari

#64. The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.

James Gould Cozzens

#65. 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

#66. Sacredness and profanity and prayers and wishes: they're all held together by the broken limbs of this dead tree, raking the night sky with its blackened branches. We are so small, the two of us. The tree and sky are so large and grand. We could fail so easily, fall before we've begun to rise.

Elora Bishop

#67. 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

#68. The psychological profiling [of a programmer] is mostly the ability to shift levels of abstraction, from low level to high level. To see something in the small and to see something in the large.

Donald Knuth

#69. What's very important is that we build a space that matters in the world, one that operates according to democratic rules, and that small and large countries enjoy a good relationship.

Jean-Pierre Raffarin

#70. 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

#71. 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

#72. Enjoyment inflames love in some men, and extinguishes it in others: the wind that assists large vessels, upsets small ones.

Norm MacDonald

#73. This is how worship is connected to our ability to love. When we give our ultimate allegiance to any of the principalities and powers, large or small, we find ourselves perennially at war with anyone who places these things at risk. Idolatry breeds perpetual vigilance and violence.

Richard Beck

#74. The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them.

Sun Tzu

#75. In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#76. Small said, "But what about when we are dead and gone, will you love me then, does love go on?"
... Large (replied) "Look at the stars, how they shine and glow, some of the stars died a long time ago. Still they shine in the evening skies, for you see ... love like starlight never dies ...

Debi Gliori

#77. A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

Lord Dunsany

#78. I hug my knees, burying my face in my arms.
This room feels very large, and I feel very small.

Beth Revis

#79. There are many forms of magic in this world, High Lord. Some come in large packages, some in small. Some work with fire and strength of body and heard ... and some work with revelation.

Terry Brooks

#80. And when this grand canvas, our life, is finished, may the world in some small or large way be a better place.

Robert Regis Dvorak

#81. Privileged to share in the athletic power of a large and dangerous animal willing to be controlled by the small, frail strength of a mere human being.

Mary Doria Russell

#82. And there in the snow lay the pictures, like jewels bedded in white silk. They were paper-thin sheets of colored transparent isin glass of every size and shape, some round, some square, some damaged, some intact, some as large as church windows, others as small as snuffbox miniatures.

Michael Ende

#83. 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

#84. Societies that eat unrefined foods produce large stools and build small hospitals; societies that eat fiber-depleted foods produce small stools and build large hospitals.

Denis Parsons Burkitt

#85. Though the eye is small, the soul which sees through it is greater and vaster than all the things which it perceives. In fact, it is so great that it includes all objects, however large or numerous, within itself. For it is not so much that you are within the cosmos as that the cosmos is within you.

Meher Baba

#86. Small aberrations in doctrinal teaching can lead to large and evil falsehoods.

Gordon B. Hinckley

#87. When spontaneous demoralizing thoughts seep into your conscience, don't trip ... allowing them to fester. These are random tests of your conviction and determination. Large or small, your reaction to such intrusions is a defining moment for which no one else, but you, can mitigate.

T.F. Hodge

#88. 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.

#89. In the end, a man turns into what he thinks he is, however large or small. It is the reason why certain people are prone to colds and catastrophe. And why others can dance on water.

Marisha Pessl

#90. You realize the futility of worry. You learn to hate the small and the little. Life is a pie which you cut in large slices, not grudgingly, not sparingly. You know your limitations and proceed to eliminate them; your abilities, and proceed to develop them. You are free.

Alice Foote MacDougall

#91. Brianna peered through the large window into the sea of plexiglass cradles. Each infant, so small and precious, belonged to someone. Someone who cared for them. Someone who loved them. Brianna sniffled and turned away, unable to bear the thought that she had no one.

J.E.B. Spredemann

#92. Winston Churchill quote, the one where he says, Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never - in nothing, great or small, large or petty - never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense?

Brad Meltzer

#93. A rare objectivity and insight can be imparted regarding this world's struggle for spiritual integrity. In the land of Faerie, the reader may see his small battles writ large in the wars of titans or elves and understand for the first time, his own worth.

Michael D. O'Brien

#94. As I wrote 'The Christmas Lamp' I realized that tradition is priceless, whether you have a small family, a large family, or no family.
Tradition doesn't have to be logical; it only has to emphasize the light of Christ and his everlasting love.

Lori Copeland

#95. 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

#96. What can be as small as a pea or as large as the sky and is not owned by the person who purchases it? it asked.

Chris Colfer

#97. Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time ... Only thus can a weaker country cope with a stronger; it must make up in activity what it lacks in strength.

Stonewall Jackson

#98. I wanted to try every style available to me - large productions, small productions, studio films, low-budget. You just can't sit around and wait for every big-budget film to come along.

Daniel Wu

#99. Small conspiracies fail and large conspiracies are betrayed.

W. Clark Boutwell

#100. Acts of violence
Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death
and the meaninglessness of killing.

Dag Hammarskjold