Top 600 Large Quotes

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
E. M. Forster
Your understanding of what you read and hear is, to a very large degree, determined by your vocabulary, so improve your vocabulary daily.
Zig Ziglar
I think it’s important for people to believe their elections are on the up and up and they aren’t being tampered with by anyone, and in this particular instance there’s a large body of evidence that at a minimum Russia tried to tamper with our election.
Charlie Baker
Me personally, I’ve had really great experiences. I’d be lying if I said it was all roses and perfect, but, by and large, the metal community is so incredibly supportive.
Nita Strauss
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Howard Zinn
We’re no longer a small business; we’re a large organization spread around the world. I can’t imagine Netscape growing as fast as it has if it weren’t for the way we use our products.
Jim Barksdale
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
Lord Dunsany
From another point of view, a new situation now seems to be arising in which Japan’s prosperity is going to be incorporated into the expanding potential power of both production and consumption in Asia at large.
Kenzaburo Oe
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
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Jane Austen
To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.
Jim Ryun
Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man’s head.
Ambrose Bierce
Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today.
George Noory
You look at the large problems that we face – that would be overpopulation, water shortages, global warming and AIDS, I suppose – all of that needs international cooperation to be solved.
Molly Ivins
I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I’m excited about it and I think it can even pass next year.
Harold Ford, Jr.
Chicago seems a big city instead of merely a large place.
A. J. Liebling
Many luckless people imagine that romance is dead: some, overcivilised, fondly suppose that there never was romance: a poet tells us that romance is unrecognised though really present: but scientists can meet him daily, walking at large and undisguised in the world.
Archibald Hill
The U.K. is one of the places that has always been an advocate of my music and I spend a lot of time touring here. I’ve got family and friends over here, but more than that, there’s a large Jamaican community and the Jamaican culture is very widespread in the U.K. which I love.
Damian Marley
Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
Douglas Adams
I was always a mean and lean athlete – not tall – not large.
Edwin Moses
As populations continue to increase, and the climate continues to deteriorate, and as people flock in ever increasing numbers to large, underdeveloped cities, the threat of multiple protracted mega-emergencies has become reality.
Antonio Guterres
‘Minecraft’ is to a large degree about having unique experiences that nobody else has had. The levels are randomly generated, and you can build anything you want to build yourself.
Markus Persson
When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage.
Simon Sinek
Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by the monasteries.
Herman Gorter
It’s populated by people who, by and large, have terrific communication skills. Every day is an extraordinary day. For me, it was just a great area for storytelling.
Aaron Sorkin
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
Hesiod
U.S. analysts estimate that Russian military expenditures have tripled during the Bush-Putin years, in large measure a predicted reaction to the Bush administration’s militancy and aggressiveness.
Noam Chomsky
The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.
Kelly Miller
My father was an electrical engineer. He’s presently 92 and still could be holding down a job. He had a very analytical way of looking at things, and I enjoyed that very much. I think that was a very large influence.
Vera Rubin
We would have been happy if we could have assigned just three categories, large, medium, and small; the point is, we wanted to avoid personal judgments. It actually turned out to be quite a finely tuned scale.
Charles Francis Richter
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
Swami Vivekananda
Small issues are really just large ones that haven't be

Small issues are really just large ones that haven’t been accorded the requisite attention.
Alain de Botton
I’m very wary of large groups of people getting together and trying to believe the same thing. It never seems to end well, whether it’s political or religious or whatever.
Peter Krause
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.
Jeannette Rankin
I think you have to learn that there’s a company behind every stock, and that there’s only one real reason why stocks go up. Companies go from doing poorly to doing well or small companies grow to large companies.
Peter Lynch
Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
A. N. Wilson
Players today are concerned about the money, but the large dollars only go to those players who are the best.
Lynn Swann
Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren’t they? They’re always telling us what’s going to happen, and we know they don’t know!
Tom Baker
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
If there’s a choice between tap water and bottled water, the consumer can make that choice. In a very large geography in the world, that choice does not exist.
Muhtar Kent
So it’s one of those things where we have to – our problem is pacing ourselves and still reaching a large enough number of our audience. Because we don’t want to burn the audience. And we don’t want to be excluding anybody.
Jerry Garcia
I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.
Kenzaburo Oe
People, by and large, would rather be talking than listening.
Mike Nichols
Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.
Charles Caleb Colton
That was the most exciting period, I think: at first, when you get the success on that really large scale.
Phil Collen
Israel remains a foreign body in this large area, and it always proved that it is unable to coexist with this environment, because the, the scope of the massacres that it has committed does not permit it to coexist.
Hassan Nasrallah
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
Fran Lebowitz
I come from a large family so you can count on the fact that I’m going to have more kids.
Benjamin Bratt
The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I’m doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
Ben Harper
Being a strongman is a real test of functional strength. What can you pick up, carry and how fast can you move it. It’s not a weight room strength, it takes brute strength and power to lift, carry and pull all types objects from fire engines, Mack trucks, transport planes and large stones.
Brian Shaw
The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.
Hernan Cortes
The world at large does not judge us by who we are and what we know; it judges us by what we have.
Joyce Brothers
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
John Ruskin
To bring a large audience to a piece of serious music and make it accessible does not mean reducing it in any way. And I’ve learned that if something is good, even if it is a little difficult, people will get that it is good.
Itzhak Perlman
I learned to make my mind large, as the universe is large, so that there is room for contradictions.
Maxine Hong Kingston
As life goes on, we accrue more and more loseable objects. Providence dictates that objects that are too large to lose, such as houses, always come with tiny little keys, specially designed to give you the slip.
Craig Brown