Enormous Quotes - Page 40

• You're only as good as your last collection, which is an enormous pressure.

  John Galliano

  Lasts, Pressure, Collections

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• The world is like an enormous set of scales. When evil begins to outweigh good, angels cram themselves in on the lighter side. You can't see them, but there they are, restoring the balance.

  Ivan Klíma

  Angel, Evil, Balance

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• In proportion to the mental energy he spent, the man who creates a new invention receives but a small percentage of his value in terms of material payment, no matter what fortune he makes, no matter what millions he earns. But the man who works as a janitor in the factory producing that invention, receives an enormous payment in proportion to the mental effort that his job requires of him. And the same is true of all men between, on all levels of ambition and ability.

  Ayn Rand

  Jobs, Ambition, Men

  Ayn Rand (2005). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.1005, Penguin

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• I have always believed that art should be a deep pleasure...ther e is always, everywhere, an enormous amount of suffering. But I believe my duty as an artist is to overcome and alleviate the sterility of despair...New ways of seeing mean new ways of feeling... I do believe that painting can change the world.

  David Hockney

  Art, Believe, Mean

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• We have this enormous connection to the living world that is reflected in our language...

  Jean Berko Gleason

  Connections, World, Language

  "Unfolding Language, Unfolding Life". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. November 3, 2011.

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• We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity and fairness in the British people - this is our characteristic. There's not a strand of equity and fairness in Europe - they're out to get as much as they can. That's one of those enormous differences. So I tackled it on that basis.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Europe, Differences, People

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• Enormous amounts of money are spent for publicity. As a result, large quantities of alimentary and pharmaceutical products, at the least useless, and often harmful, have become a necessity for civilized men.

  Alexis Carrel

  Dark, Men, Age

  Alexis Carrel (1939). “Man the Unknown”

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• ...That genius is a rare exception (:) It's not true. Talent and genius have been wasted on enormous scale throughout our history; this is all I know for sure.

  Eric Hoffer

  Dark, Age, Genius

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• Quantum physics tells us that nothing that is observed is unaffected by the observer. That statement, from science, holds an enormous and powerful insight. It means that everyone sees a different truth because everyone is creating what they see.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Positive, Powerful, Mean

  Neale Donald Walsch (2010). “When Everything Changes, Change Everything: In a time of turmoil, a pathway to peace”, p.129, Hachette UK

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• I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable.

  Albert Camus

  New York, Real, Blow

  Albert Camus (1987). “American journals”

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• Yes, I could see these enormous elephants, whose trunks were tearing down large boughs, and working in and out the trees like a legion of serpents. I could hear the sounds of the mighty tusks uprooting huge trees!

  Jules Verne

  Elephants, Tree, Sound

  Jules Verne (2015). “Journey to Center of the Earth”, p.209, Xist Publishing

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• We think the managed security services opportunity is enormous and so we have been an active participant and probably the largest firm in this space outside of an IBM or EDS, which does large outsourcing contracts.

  John W. Thompson

  Opportunity, Thinking, Space

  "Interview: Symantec's John Thompson talks about big picture security". Interview with Ed Scannell, www.infoworld.com. June 16, 2004.

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• Well we have a good working relationship with Microsoft at the development level. But let's not kid ourselves, this is a company with enormous resources and talented people, and there is a certain pride that comes along with that for them and for us.

  John W. Thompson

  Relationship, Kids, Pride

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• Now it's been fifteen years, nine games, and an enormous blast to undertake. If it were my choice, I would do this role forever. To hear anyone else's voice coming from Snake's battered throat, makes me a little ill, to be honest.

  David Hayter

  Games, Snakes, Voice

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• It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale as ever, in a cell with such doors as Paris never had for gates. The cell is the shape of a tall coffin, with an enormous dusty vaulting, a small window... Bach, my scrawls and waste paper - silence - you could scream - there would still be silence. Indeed, I write to you from a strange place.

  Frederic Chopin

  Writing, Paris, White

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• The force of a death should be enormous but how can you know what kind of man you've killed or who was the braver and stronger if you have to peer through layers of glass that deliver the image but obscure the meaning of the act? War has a conscience or it's ordinary murder.

  Don DeLillo

  War, Men, Glasses

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• By all means attend to your duties. Action, in which you are not emotionally involved and which is beneficial and does not cause suffering will not bind you. You may be engaged in several directions and work with enormous zest, yet remain inwardly free and quiet, with a mirror like mind, which reflects all, without being affected.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Freedom, Mean, Mirrors

  "I Am That" by Nisargadatta Maharaj, p. 50, 1973.

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• We are all trophies of God's grace, some more dramatically than others; Jesus came for the sick and not the well, for the sinner and not the righteous. He came to redeem and transform, to make all things new. May you go forth more committed than ever to nourish the souls who you touch, those tender lives who have sustained the enormous assaults of the universe. (pp.88)

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Sick, Grace

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Jul 09, 2012

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• But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves a shape distinct from others, is broken, and there is left of all these wrinkles and roughnesses a central oyster of perceptiveness, an enormous eye. How beautiful a street is in winter!

  Virginia Woolf

  Beautiful, Eye, Winter

  Virginia Woolf (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.303, OUP Oxford

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• Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never hangs because you got enormous storage capacity.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Add, Analogies

  The Straits Times, April 22, 2007.

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• I'm as poor as a church mouse, that's just had an enormous tax bill on the very day his wife ran off with another mouse, taking all the cheese.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Funny, Money, Wife

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• Very few people realize the enormous bulk of contemporary mathematics. Probably it would be easier to learn all the languanges of the world than to master all mathematics at present known.

  W. W. Sawyer

  Math, People, Would Be

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• The configuration of the ocean-floor is of great interest to seismologists studying the movements of the Earth's crust. Oceanographers are also able to explain certain peculiarities of ocean currents by the contour of the ocean-bed. But enormous areas are still unexplored.

  Paul J. H. Schoemaker

  Ocean, Bed, Movement

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• Deep beneath the surface of the Sun, enormous forces were gathering. At any moment, the energies of a million hydrogen bombs might burst forth in the awesome explosion.... Climbing at millions of miles per hour, an invisible fireball many times the size of Earth would leap from the Sun and head out across space.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Space, Climbing, Hydrogen Bomb

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• I look up at the ceiling, tracing the foliage of the wreath. Today it makes me think of a hat, the large-brimmed hats women used to wear at some period during the old days: hats like enormous halos, festooned with fruit and flowers, and the feathers of exotic birds; hats like an idea of paradise, floating just above the head, a thought solidified.

  Margaret Atwood

  Flower, Thinking, Ideas

  Margaret Atwood (1986). “The Handmaid's Tale”, p.128, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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