Enormous Quotes

• I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land.

  Jon Stewart

  Funny, Thanksgiving, Holiday

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• There are two ways to be rich: to have more or need less. It's estimated that we squander about 30 percent of our energy leaving the lights on, the refrigerator door open, and so on. Then there is the enormous amount of food that we expend huge amounts of energy to raise and then throw away.

  Bill Nye

  Light, Doors, Two

  "It's that Guy! An Interview with 2010 Humanist of the Year Bill Nye". Interview with Clay Farris Naff, thehumanist.com. November 21, 2014.

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• Live with it. You live with pleasure, don't you? Why don't you live with suffering completely? Can you live with it in the sense of not escaping from it? What takes place? Watch. The mind is very clear, sharp. It is faced with the fact. The very suffering transformed into passion is enormous. From that arises a mind that can never be hurt. Full stop. That is the secret.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Sad, Hurt, Passion

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• There's no huge mystery. If you dig up huge amounts of carbon, huge amounts of ancient biology, hundreds of millions of year's worth of ancient biology, and flush it into the atmosphere in a matter of decades, then it stands to reason that we're going to have enormous effects, and now we can see those effects all around us.

  Bill McKibben

  Years, Atmosphere, Matter

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Pick up a stone that feels good to you and is small enough to hold in one hand. Consider how long that stone has been around and what enormous pressure it has experienced. Draw strength from its long history.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Hands, Long, Feel Good

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• I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Inspirational, Strength

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• An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Experience, Mature Love, Mature

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• If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Thinking, Risk, Able

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• For a marriage relationship to flourish, there must be intimacy. It takes an enormous amount of courage to say to your spouse, 'This is me. I'm not proud of it - in fact, I'm a little embarrassed by it - but this is who I am.

  Bill Hybels

  Relationship, Who I Am, Proud

  Bill Hybels (2009). “Who You Are When No One's Looking: Choosing Consistency, Resisting Compromise”, p.23, InterVarsity Press

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• Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Sacrifice, Needs, World

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• The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

  Andy Goldsworthy

  Differences, Theatre, Energy

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

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• We're on the cusp, on the brink, of enormous change in this country.

  Jennifer Granholm

  Country, Cusp

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• Um, I have an enormous faith in God. I have an enormous support system that also has that same belief.

  Katey Sagal

  Faith, Support Systems, Belief

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• Voting is fundamental in our democracy. It has yielded enormous returns.

  Arlen Specter

  Voting, Democracy, Fundamentals

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• America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

  Gloria Steinem

  Cupcakes, America, People

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• Great champions have an enormous sense of pride. The people who excel are those who are driven to show the world and prove to themselves just how good they are.

  Nancy Lopez

  Success, Sports, Athlete

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• I think the potential for man is so enormous, if we can stay alive long enough, we're going to be seeing a lot of what Star Trek is projecting.

  Brent Spiner

  Stars, Men, Thinking

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• Hollywood has lost an enormous amount of quality.

  Claire Trevor

  Quality, Hollywood, Lost

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• The number of witches had everywhere become enormous.

  John Jewel

  Numbers, Witch

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• At the dawn of the 19th century, the country was awakening to its enormous scope and variety.

  David Lavender

  Country, Dawn, Awakening

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• It will be sufficient to point to the enormous burdens which armaments place on the economic, social, and intellectual resources of a nation, as well as on its budget and taxes.

  Ludwig Quidde

  Intellectual, Economic, Burden

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• Initially, the horrific images of September 11th triggered an enormous wave of solidarity.

  Ulrich Beck

  September 11, Wave, Solidarity

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• The world is an enormous injustice.

  Jules Romains

  World, Injustice

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• It's not a pretty face, I grant you. But underneath its flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

  Alan Jay Lerner

  Character, Faces, Pretty Face

  "Fictional character: Adam Cook". "An American in Paris", 1951.

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• Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

  Richard Gere

  Buddhism, Impact, Tibetan

  "Richard Gere: My Journey as a Buddhist". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.lionsroar.com. 1999.

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