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Quotes About Large

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don't survive in solo careers.
~ Don Henley
Physiology and psychology cover, between them, the field of vital phenomena; they deal with the facts of life at large, and in particular with the facts of human life.
~ Wilhelm Wundt
I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.
~ Jesse Ball
In fact, if you have a very large volume of mass at constant density, then it is guaranteed to become a black hole if the volume is large enough — no matter how small the density! [13] This means that if we had a large volume of soft cotton wool, with a uniformly low density, it would collapse to form a black hole as long as the volume was large enough.
~ Andrew Thomas
It gave Boy 412 the impression that Aunt Zelda had walked into a large patchwork tent and had just, that very minute, poked her head out of the top to see what was going on.
~ Angie Sage
I don't go to regular music festivals because I tend to run in the opposite direction wherever there's big crowds.
~ Sheryl Lee
A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence.
~ Sigmund Freud
I'm a perfectionist. And that's served me very well in my career. It allows me to handle these large, complex problems without letting things fall through the cracks... That is the mentality you have to have to attack these complex problems of chip design, for example, when you're overwhelmed with complexity.
~ Henry Samueli
It is economically irrational to exclude large environmental costs from the balance sheets of the producers and the consumers. You are only kidding yourself if you export those costs on to society as a whole.
~ John Holdren
The main concern with a very large baby is difficulty in delivery.
~ Emily Oster
With Bolshoi technique, the movements are quite large, the jumps are big, and I'm a tall dancer, so I've learned to use my height more, to elongate my moves, jumps and positions. I'm physically using my body more to my advantage.
~ David Hallberg
Chinese companies - telecommunications and technology companies - are some of the best internationally. Taobao, WeChat, Huawei - not only are they large companies, but they're also very technologically advanced.
~ Lee Hsien Loong
Paradox is the only basket large enough to hold truth:
~ Robert Farrar Capon
Even in an uninjured state Strike tended to intimidate, given that he was large, dark, naturally surly-looking and sported a boxer's profile.
~ Robert Galbraith
The problem of doing better in the modern world, as I see it, is this: How can people perform better in, and be better served by, institutions—especially large ones?
~ Robert K. Greenleaf
While the modern medical name for the feeling produced by a new challenge or large goal is stress, for countless generations it went by the old, familiar name of fear.
~ Robert Maurer
The ease with which large producers can transfer their costs is the glaring abuse through which the market – otherwise one of the core values of conservatism – condemns itself.
~ Roger Scruton
What we have, in fact, is not a theory at all but a large collection of approximate calculations, together with a web of conjectures that, if true, point to the existence of a theory.
~ Lee Smolin
of the river, somewhat removed from Rombaden, are some forty or fifty medium to large estates belonging to the wealthy and upper crust of the area.
~ Leon Uris
belong to one of the doors of the hall; but, alas! either the locks were too large, or the key was too
~ Lewis Carroll
There were worlds within worlds, and each will have within its confines values and meaning. It may not really matter to the world at large, thought Isabel, that I should feel happy rather than sad, but it matters to me, and the fact that it matters matters.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
There were world within worlds, and each will have within its confines values and meanings. It may not really matter to the world at large, thought Isabel, that I should feel happy rather than sad, but it matters to me, and the fact that it matters matters.
~ Alexander McCall Smith
When we hear about a large forest fire, of course, we don't think that there must have been anything special about the spark that started it. Indeed, such an idea would be laughable. Yet when we see something special happen in the social world, we are instantly drawn to the idea that whoever started it must have been special also.
~ Duncan J. Watts
In a network of tens of millions of users, ten thousand retweets doesn't seem like that big a number, but what our data showed is that even that is almost impossible to achieve. For practical purposes, therefore, it may be better to forget about the large cascades altogether and instead try to generate lots of small ones. And for that purpose, ordinary influencers may work just fine.
~ Duncan J. Watts