Unusually Large Quotes

#1. There are terrible jerks, and there are an unusually large concentration of them in the workplace. And that means that you do have to make some changes in your behavior, but there is absolutely no need for you to give them power over your happiness.

Srikumar Rao

#2. In China, inaugurations are frequent affairs, though they have nothing to do with presidents. A news cycle rarely passes without some fanfare over the inaugural ride on a new subway line or the inaugural trip across an unusually large bridge.

Evan Osnos

#3. Spurn not a seeming error, but dig below its surface for the truth.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

#4. She's not extravagant or greedy, she tells herself: all she ever wanted was to be protected by layer upon layer of kind, soft, insulating money, so that nobody and nothing could get close enough to harm her.

Margaret Atwood

#5. Allowance, by convention, and because it is felt to be the right and proper thing to love them. And in the sect - fairly large and yet unusually choice of Austenians or Janites, there would

Jane Austen

#6. One thing I have learned in my painful career as a gambler is that bragging when you get lucky and win a few games will plunge you into gloom and unacceptable beatings very soon. It happens every time.

Hunter S. Thompson

#7. Forever was something we all took for granted, but the problem with forever was that it really didn't exist.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#8. I've seen this before."
"A golden brick that turned into a deadly, rampaging puddle of molten metal?" I asked.

Richelle Mead

#9. If I allow my gaze to travel higher-which I won't-I'll see the solid gold basketball charm on a chain that my mother gave him for his eighteenth birthday nestled in his coarse, whorled chest hair.
My front teeth throb as the memory of the charm bangs against them.

Laura Wiess

#10. After all, no relationship could function or survive under the burden of total honesty.

John Connolly

#11. There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be a first step in the direction of a moralization, a first assumption of responsibility,

Pope Benedict XVI

#12. a healthy fear of death drives a person to continue creating until the very end, but with that fear must come the acceptance that even your life's work will, in some ways, remain unfinished.

Jeff Goins

#13. How can such a disproportionately large number of people have a definite, and unusually positive relationship to Mozart?

Wolfgang Hildesheimer

#14. Just start. A small business can take you to the level of empire.

Ehab Atalla

#15. The only important statistic is the final score.

Bill Russell