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When you are in a larger space you can allow your...

When you are in a larger space you can allow your emotions to grow even larger and those expanding emotions give amazing depth.

EQuote by Estelle Parsons about emotions, univers, contentment

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In...

There is always a heavy demand for fresh mediocrity. In every generation the least cultivated taste has the largest appetite.

Quote by Paul Gauguin about art, mediocrity

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a...

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Quote by Woody Allen about humor, bankers, name, god

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.

Quote by Charles Babbage about economy, use

I love writing Thieves' World, but I feel a responsibility, too, to the other authors. I've lost many nights' sleep worrying if I've made the sandbox too large, too small.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about thieves, sleep, writing, world, love

As far as a truly radical conscience, you have to take it as part of a larger thing, that it was sort of historical inevitability that with the coming of a leaguer society people would start to use drugs a lot more then they had before.

Quote by Lester Bangs about drugs, conscience, society, use, things, people, contentment

It is an honor to be awarded with such a high rating from an organization as well respected as the NAACP. I am pleased that the oldest and largest civil rights organization in the nation, has recognized my voting record.

Quote by Joe Baca about nation

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about ability, experience, need

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger...

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Quote by Francis Bacon about atheism, philosophy, god

I would have thought it possible to choose delegates for these larger conferences who, even if they could not speak the principal languages, could at least understand them or could have friends seated beside them who could keep them informed on...

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about essential, thinking

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I...

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive.

Quote by Scott Adams about obstacles, purpose, failure, success

There are those who believe we have need of more literature, of a large international publishing house, of a great peace newspaper, or the like. I am rather skeptical about this idea.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about literature, home, house, peace, idea, need, faith

If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, it could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year.

Quote by George W. Bush about commerce

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever...

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Quote by Jane Austen about happiness

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in...

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.

Quote by Jane Austen about wealth, man, world

I started to feel that I had a large problem: my comic book characters didn't exist, and none of my readers would have seen them. The Escapist existed only within the covers of this book.

Quote by Michael Chabon

I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.

I think I'll have a large order of prognosis negative.

Quote by Bette Davis about order

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable...

Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody.

Quote by Agatha Christie about money

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about violence, question, society, man

I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.

Quote by Joe Cocker about nation, contentment, people

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