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Quotes About Large

Everything that is large and institutional should be distrusted, even though it may be the best around. The Internal Revenue Service doesn't trust me, so why should I trust them? It's a quid pro quo arrangement.
~ Wayne Rogers
But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever....
~ Stevie Smith
I legitimately wanted to know if Mayor Bloomberg was going to ban large margaritas that I cry over while on a date alone at Dallas BBQ as a part of his controversial soda ban.
~ Awkwafina
The gas-giant planets in our solar system all have large moons.
~ Debra Fischer
The world is fine and everything is normal and then, bang, you just get bowled over by the wrathful deities somehow. That happens in very small ways and happens in very large ways when you have a major conflagration in the world. It's another cycle of existence of human beings.
~ Bill Viola
The private sector is ill suited to taking on most of these large infrastructure investments: if the services are to be accessible, which they must be in order to be effective, the profit margins that attract private players simply aren't there.
~ Naomi Klein
Nothing could stop tragedy from visiting your home. The angel of death would not pass over, leaving you unscathed, no matter how large your house was.
~ Charlaine Harris
We have created a ministry of the family to work on fertility, nurseries, on a fiscal system which takes large families into account.
~ Matteo Salvini
When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
~ Calvin Coolidge
And broghte of myghty ale a large quart.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
An arena large as Europe Silent waiting the contest
~ F. R. Scott
I've always been a deep sleeper; because I come from such a large family - there are 10 kids - I could sleep through anything. Even with my last day job, I'd sleep in later and later and start coming in an hour-and-a-half late. I got fired twice before I really got fired.
~ Kurt Vile
That's the reality in the Catholic Church today You don't want to build something that will be OK for now, when you know this large population is going to get bigger.
~ Mary Gauthier
It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
~ Voltaire
The logistic requirements for a large, elaborate mission to Mars are no greater that those for a minor military operation extending over a limited theatre of war.
~ Wernher von Braun
This kind of painting with its large frames is a bourgeois drawing-room art. It is an art dealer's art-and that came in after the civil wars following the French Revolution.
~ Edvard Munch
Think of England as a very large book. The Cotswolds would be an unfussy chapter in the middle somewhere where there is lots of limestone and even more sheep.
~ Susan Meissner
AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them.
~ Susan Sontag
We support regional generation, particularly for nuclear. It's just a large investment. We think it's something a community comes around to make those investments work, and South Carolina is very committed to nuclear generation.
~ Lynn Good
It would take an extremely large spacecraft to deflect a large asteroid that would be headed directly for the Earth.
~ Rusty Schweickart
Long as I live large, life will be luxury, Ladies in Lamborghinis...love is like luck to me.
~ Redman
The market is like a large movie theater with a small door. And the best way to detect a sucker is to see if his focus is on the size of the theater rather than that of the door.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
For the fragile, the cumulative effect of small shocks is smaller than the single effect of an equivalent single large shock.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Note a slight disagreement on my part that does not change the story by much: the world, rather, moves by large incremental random changes.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb