Too Big Quotes

#1. Most people would trade everything they know, everyone they know- they'd trade it all to know they've been seen, and acknowledged, that they might even be remembered. We all know the world is too big for us to be significant. So all we have is the hope of being seen, or heard, even for a moment.

Dave Eggers

#2. I am too big and too small and too much and not enough and too frightened to change and too sad to stay the same.

Nancy Tucker

#3. We're a me-me-me generation. We're borrowing the savings of every nation in the world. We're ... piling up a big tab. Now, I may think we're too big to have a run on us. You may think that. But it's possible that God does not.

Paul Samuelson

#4. Aspirations are useless, because to aspire, is to reach. Dream, they say, but not too big. Laugh, they say, but not too loudly. Love, they say, but not too hard.

Logan Keys

#5. I am not perfect! When I was a little girl I thought I was ugly. My nose was too big for my face.

Kelly Rowland

#6. I was such a dork. I was too big. I was really gangly.

Kristen Johnston

#7. I'm too big of a fan of sin and debauchery to be a Christian.

J.C. Wickhart

#8. My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.

Dan Blocker

#9. Unless you're God, you are never too "big" to be a fan.

Behdad Sami

#10. Impossible is just the shit nobody's tried yet," Beckett shot back. "My balls are way too big not to hope for the best.

Debra Anastasia

#11. I feel like he's the ocean and I've fallen in and the waves are too big; like I'm in over my head. I'm not even sure which way is up anymore.

Anonymous

#12. I'm more of a homebody. I'm constantly asked: 'Why don't we see you out?' But that's not what drives me. I prefer to have people over - which I do a lot, because I bought a house that's way too big for me, and four of my friends live there.

Kristen Bell

#13. I always knew it would come down to you and the big blue school boy. Planet's too big for the BOTH of you. When it all comes down, I want a piece of him. A small piece, will do? For OLD TIMES, sake, you know..it still hurts when its cold.

Frank Miller

#14. P.S. If it's not a secret, will you tell me how you got my dollhouse inside our living room last Christmas? I know its too big to fit down the chimney. I measured.

Joanne Fluke

#15. Creativity's too big a pill; the truth's too hard to swallow. Sprinkle sugar in a straight line and we'll all inhale and follow.

Kelby Losack

#16. The reality is: sometimes you lose. And you're never too good to lose. You're never too big to lose. You're never too smart to lose. It happens.

Beyonce Knowles

#17. You can stretch to your fullest in this land, Emma, and not touch any edges. There's no dream too big for the wilderness. I'd hate to see it tamed and carved up into little fiefdoms.

Alice Valdal

#18. When the Americans advance, we harass and retreat, fire from new positions and then retreat again. If the attacking force is too big, we call for support.

Muqtada Al Sadr

#19. Every hero needs a hero of their own. This is too big for one person.

Shona Perrett

#20. If a bank's too big so that it can't fail without hurting our economy, well then, it's too big.

Martin O'Malley

#21. suppose, if you had to call it something, you could say that that was our civil war. It was too big a thing, too tied up in moral certainties to be called a mutiny, too small and ultimately futile to be called a revolution.

Frank Tayell

#22. Whenever you think that you are getting too big for the people around you, remember all that separates you from the guy sitting next to you is a little piece of gristle in your throat.

Marilyn Horne

#23. A cold realisation washed over me. From now on, my master would not always be there to protect and counsel me.
'This is big. Too big,' I said. 'What do I do?'
'You follow your destiny,' Ryoko said. 'As we all do. With honour and courage.

Alison Goodman

#24. I tried to shake some water off. "I got a message from Angel,"i said, scanning the tunnel."She says there's massive danger down here,something too big for us to fix or deal with."
"So of course you immediately came down.

James Patterson

#25. Too many coaches have too big a mouth and not big enough ears.

John Kessel

#26. There is no Great American Novel," she said absently. "This nation is too big and too diverse to produce only one great book. We've got lots of them and there will be more written in the future. Art doesn't stand still.

Jayne Ann Krentz

#27. The big problem, again, wasn't insanity, but that people's brains were much too big and untruthful to be practical.

Kurt Vonnegut

#28. Like most of the connections that explain the pain in our hearts, he couldn't bring it to mind. He couldn't see the truth because it was too big and it was right in front of him.

Keith Ablow

#29. Sometimes the Goliath in front of me looks too big & impossible to defeat. Then, God puts his hands on my shoulder, hands me 3 pebbles & a sling shot and I know it'll be okay.

Mark Oliver

#30. If your sin feels "too big," your vision of God is too small.

Mark Hart

#31. Our status as a land of equal opportunity has made us a rich and powerful nation, but it has also transformed lives. It has given people like me the chance to grow up knowing that no dream was too big and no goal out of reach.

Marco Rubio

#32. We're still under the weight of this impression that the ocean is too big to fail, that the planet is too big to fail.

Sylvia Earle

#33. The United States is too big and we are too involved with too many people for any president to be able to take actions that will be universally agreed to all day, every day and everywhere in the world.

William J. Clinton

#34. Harley studied his erection, lightly running her fingers over the smooth skin. His cock jumped at her touch. It was a pretty penis, she had to say. Good length, pleasing circumference. Not too big, not too small ... the Goldilocks of cocks. Just right.

Erin McCarthy

#35. If the crowd is too big, it's too much for me. I took my daughter down there, and all I did was spend all of my time worrying that she was going to get lost because you're caught between somebody with a sandwich in their hand and somebody in a costume. It's really crazy.

Lance Henriksen

#36. To introduce a whole new tax regime, that would be modern tax reform. But that's too big a task.

Chuck Schumer

#37. She was going to burst, or fall apart. Something. She couldn't keep feeling like this. The emptiness inside her was too big; it would swallow her whole.

Lili Wilkinson

#38. No sacrifice is too big; no action is too low if it leads you to defeat your enemy.

River Jordan

#39. I have plenty of information now, but I can't get it into words. I'm afraid it's too big a task for me. I wonder if I will find everything in life too big for my abilities. Well, time will tell. Theodore Roosevelt, writing in naval history in his spare time while in law school

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#40. Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world

Henry Kissinger

#41. Her eyes felt swollen, and she knew she looked a mess, but sometimes ... sometimes the emotions were just too big to hold.

Rachel Caine

#42. I support health care reform in this country, but the current bills we have before us are too big, too costly, and the people who send me to Washington to be their voice are opposed to them and this process.

Mike Ross

#43. I know the pain of somebody who's too thin and the pain of somebody that people say is too big.

Tyra Banks

#44. I think what happened there was just the budget would be too big to build these sets because nothing really exists here in New York of that period; you have to build it all.

Martin Scorsese

#45. If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.

Barry Ritholtz

#46. I might go visit it one day, but I couldn't do any more than just visit. I love it, don't get me wrong, but it's just too big. I'm going to be at a lot of other conventions this year, with the book and everything.

Lance Henriksen

#47. Sometimes, some rare times, a secret stays undiscovered because it is something too big for the mind to hold. It is too strange, too vast, too terrifying to contemplate. All of us have secrets in our lives. We're keepers or kept from, players or played.

Maggie Stiefvater

#48. She didn't want to be the human race. It sounded too big a responsibility.

Anne Corlett

#49. The city is just too big and too full of people to be alone.

Joe Meno

#50. Too bad for any parent who has become accustomed to ruling by force, because at some point the kids just get too big to slap around.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#51. It's just that life felt the right size in there ... not too big and not too small. Wasn't so hard to work up a bit of courage. It's got so bloody complicated since then.

Athol Fugard

#52. What happens when emotion is too big, when it fills the chest and the veins and the limbs? I imagine sunshine filling me until I shatter - leaving starburst-coated girl shrapnel strewn across this bed.

Christina Lauren

#53. If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses.

Julian Sands

#54. I often find myself writing about people taking care of each other, or trying to. And often seem to write about situations that are too big for the characters.

Kenneth Lonergan

#55. We're making far too big a deal out of our sexual preferences. It's just another form of narcissism, and I think it can be a big problem and a tremendous obstacle.

Andrew Cohen

#56. So much water. It just went on and on and on, a sight that squeezed the soul. He felt so damn small out here. And that felt good. Maybe that was strange, but it felt good. He was insignificant. The world was too big to care about his decisions. There was no weight here, no burden.

Michael Koryta

#57. The problem is just too big to solve. This life is much easier if we all just pretend to have a heart.

E.P. Shelky

#58. At all costs, avoid clothes that are too big. The more volume your clothes have, the more volume you appear to have.

Tim Gunn

#59. My plan for 'The New York Times,' if I get the deal, will be putting the paper on every newsstand across the country and making 'The Times' accessible to every Chinese household. China is such a big market and is too big to miss.

Chen Guangbiao

#60. I can't text. My fingers are too big.

Denis Leary

#61. When a situation becomes too uncomfortable for you, it's either it's way bigger than you can handle or you've become too big for it. The catch, though, is that you decide which is - To outgrow it or let it grow all over you.

Ufuoma Apoki

#62. One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.

Robert Harris

#63. For one thing, the penthouse was simply too big. Besides the seventy-one bedrooms, there were a number of living rooms, dining rooms, breakfast rooms, snack rooms, sitting rooms, standing rooms, ballrooms, bathrooms, kitchens, and an assortment of rooms that seem to have no purpose at all.

Lemony Snicket

#64. If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#65. I don't think anybody's too big to fail. I think the - I think if what you've got is sort of a large number of institutions who are going to fail, then that ends up affecting the system.

Marc Lasry

#66. What would the world be like if people said whatever they were thinking, all the time, whenever it came to them? How long would a blind date last? About 13 seconds, I think. Oh, sorry, your rear end is too big. That's ok, your breath stinks anyway. See you later.

Jerry Seinfeld

#67. I'm a Christian guy, and when it comes to my priorities, it's the utmost. For me, just to calm myself down, to keep my perspective when I'm playing, to not make too big a deal of it ... that's where I go to. The peace that comes with that allows me to play free golf.

Zach Johnson

#68. Too big for a youth, too small for a grown man,

Alexandre Dumas

#69. When [Servius Galba] was a commoner he seemed too big for his station, and had he never been emperor, no one would have doubted his ability to reign.

Tacitus

#70. Life is too short, the world is too big and God's love is too great to live ordinary.

Christine Caine

#71. I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.

Ingrid Bergman

#72. Most people wear clothing that is too big or too small for them. And "oversized" is the downfall for most of us. We have to be careful that we don't look like we're slipcovered!

Tim Gunn

#73. If a financial institution is too big to fail, it is too big to exist.

Bernie Sanders

#74. Life is too big for small dreams.

Debasish Mridha

#75. I love my body as it is. People in the industry have been telling me to lose weight for years but I like the way I look. I give credit to my mom for helping me feel good about my appearance - for making sure I never felt embarrassed about my body, because she was never worried about looking too big.

Christina Hendricks

#76. The past was only my cradle, and now it cannot hold me, because I am grown too big.

Mary Antin

#77. Sometimes, the big picture is too big to see from up close.

H.M. Ward

#78. I try to shove this whole confusing mess of emotions into the vault in my head. But either the vault is full or this bundle of emotions is too big or too stubborn or too thorny to shove into the vault.

Susan Ee

#79. Too big to cry too young to laugh...

Abraham Lincoln

#80. Your heart is too magnificent for a small hope; your mind is too big for a small dreams.

Debasish Mridha

#81. I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.

Maksim Chmerkovskiy

#82. Go and make yourself useful, since you are too big to be ornamental.

Louisa May Alcott

#83. I had to be naked [in Vinyl], but I was almost more nervous about having to be drunk. The director wasn't going to yell, "Too big!," during the nude scene. For the drunk scene, you can be bad drunk or good drunk. We'll see. My wife was not happy, hearing about it.

Ray Romano

#84. I am an enthusiastic Darwinian, but I think Darwinism is too big a theory to be confined to the narrow context of the gene.

Richard Dawkins

#85. Adam snorted as he pulled on a faded green t-shirt that said "I Heart Coyotes." Yet another sign that folding my clean clothes wasn't too big a price to pay to make him happy. He didn't have any "I Heart Christy " shirts or I would have burned them already.

Patricia Briggs

#86. For the record, someone will ALWAYS say that you are too big, too thin, too lean, too fat, too whatever. In my opinion, they are too conceited to think that their opinion is going to change our behavior. A person with confidence won't be deterred! Keep after it!

Jamie Eason

#87. What is the difference between happiness and contentment?"
"Well, happy is like when somebody gives you a big hunk of something wonderful and it's too big to hold. So you pull off a piece from time to time to hold in your hand. that's being contented. anyway, that's the way i look at it.

Betty Smith

#88. Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.

Carl Hubbell

#89. I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't play, so sometimes the palette feels too big.

Trent Reznor

#90. There's no such thing as an animal too big too kill, AND we're cornered by such animals every day.

Shane McCrae

#91. My face seems too square and my eyes too big, like I'm perpetually surprised, but there's nothing wrong with me that I can fix.

David Levithan

#92. Why did it happen? The big dog got fed. And when the big dog was fed, the little dog even got some meat in there, too. Big dog owns the domain, but the little dog can go wherever he wants.

Shaquille O'Neal

#93. Not to give too big of a spoiler, but I never find myself thinking, for example, Oh, remember that crazy time I stumbled on that closeted Republican candidate's sex tape?

Kathleen Rooney

#94. Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.

Kurt Godel

#95. God's covenant of grace in Scripture is one of those things that are too big to be easily seen, particularly when one's mind is programmed to look at something smaller.

J.I. Packer

#96. My hair was too big. And my head is big, and my hair is big, so my helmet gets too small. So I have to make a haircut.

Alexander Ovechkin

#97. If you try to carry everything around all the time, pretty soon you end up flat on your back in bed, too big to get up or even turn over.

Jennifer Niven

#98. Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.

Sarah Palin

#99. Why talk of the team when our Cricket Board is like an exclusive club with members being there for years on end? If they can stay on without performing, the players too feel they can stay in the team without too big a performance.

Sunil Gavaskar

#100. I swallowed all the doubt and all the disappointment and all the anger and they were almost too big, like vitamin pills that are difficult to get down even with water.

Annabel Pitcher