Massive Quotes - Page 2

• Some people think that it [Brexit] is the end of the world. It's not. On the contrary, it's a massive opportunity for this country.

  Boris Johnson

  Country, Opportunity, Thinking

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• Just plain logic says that the war on drugs does not work. It absolutely does not work. We have this highly addictive legal drug called tobacco which has never resulted in people being sent to prison, but there has been a massive reduction in its consumption simply because responsible adults looking at their own bodies have said they don't want to do that to themselves.

  Graham Hancock

  War, People, Drug

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• I have spent forty-five years teasing out the universal principles of success that are necessary to create massive breakthroughs. I am committed to teaching and disseminating those around the world. I also believe that most transformational leaders are focusing too much on outer techniques and overlooking the important inner qualities of beingness and presence that are required to create real and lasting transformation in the world.

  Jack Canfield

  Real, Teaching, Believe

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• I have never thought of a scenario where international football was not a massive part of our [England] game.

  Michael Owen

  Football, Games, England

  "Michael Owen on the English team, Wayne Rooney and the goals record". Interview with Kevin Palmer, www.espn.co.uk. June 12, 2015.

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• There is a massive call for more lightworkers, and now is our time to rise up and bring more positivity to the world.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Positivity, World, Our Time

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• I won Michigan in a massive landslide. Remember, I beat Kasich. Remember, [John] Kasich was gonna win Michigan? There was only one problem.

  Donald Trump

  Winning, Michigan, Remember

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• If you consider risk versus benefit, I mean, what is the risk of meditating? You just spend twenty minutes meditating. It's one of the things you can say is pretty much zero risk and there is the potential for massive benefit. Even if it's just minimal benefit, who wouldn't want that?

  Jennifer Ashton

  Zero, Mean, Risk

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• In fact, on a side note, after the success of the first record, I got asked to write for some pop artists, as everybody does, and I did a couple songs for some of these massive stars and the review that I got back was, "This artist likes the song but it's too POP-y for them." I was like, "What do you mean, I thought I was writing for a pop star."

  Aaron Bruno

  Song, Stars, Couple

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• I see massive potential for entertainment to create wide sweeping change.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Entertainment, Sweeping, Wide

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.

  Studs Terkel

  Phones, Government, Gone

  "More NSA Legal Actions", www.wired.com. May 22, 2006.

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• I’m about to enter a national ass-kicking contest. With no legs. And a massive ass.

  Julia Louis-Dreyfus

  Kicking, Legs, Ass

  "Crass Roots" by Emily Nussbaum, www.newyorker.com. May 6, 2013.

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• You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  Inspiration, Doe, Pieces

  "Jamie Campbell Bower Is Our New Class' 'Next Johnny Depp'". Interview with Josh Horowitz, www.mtv.com. September 26, 2011.

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• One mistake, one brief lapse of my new found judgement-that's all it took to unravel everything. What a massive responsibility, being a moral creature.

  Isaac Marion

  Mistake, Responsibility, Judgement

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• This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Giving, Upheaval, Revolution

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.98, Beacon Press

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• Even his hair was bigger—a massive globe of blue-black frizz so thick that his lobster-claw horns appeared to be drowning as they tried to swim their way to the surface. “Is that why they named you Aphros?” Leo asked as they glided down the path from the cave. “Because of the Afro?” Aphros scowled. “What do you mean?” “Nothing,” Leo said quickly.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Hair, Blue

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• You teach combat, I guess.” Aphros threw up his hands in exasperation. “Why does everyone assume that?” Leo glanced at the massive sword on the fish-guy’s back. “Uh, I don’t know.

  Rick Riordan

  Hands, Guy, Doe

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• Oh land of farms and green hills mild Once formed by giants rough and wild With massive paws they gripped and tore With one great rip they formed the shore Where heavy boots left prints so deep Blue lakes remain 'tween summits steep The giants fought beneath our skies And from their bones our mountains rise

  Shannon Hale

  Rip, Lakes, Blue

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• I planted a seed of hatred in my heart. I swore it would grow to be a massive tree whose roots would strangle them all.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Heart, Roots, Hatred

  Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.47, Penguin

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• She would try picturing him in his underwear, but that was even more disturbing since all it did was make her hot and even more nervous… He had to be the only man alive who could pull off intimidating in his tighty-whities. God, what if all that massive hotness was commando?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Men, What If, Trying

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Acheron: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.475, Macmillan

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• I’m going to lie this one right on the line, right here, right now: I’m pro big pants. Strident feminism NEEDS big pants. Really big. I’m currently wearing a pair that could have been used as a fire blanket to put out the Great Fire of London at any point during the first 48 hours or so. They extend from the top of my thigh to my belly button, and effectively double up as a second property that I can escape to at weekends. If I were going to run for parliament, it would be solely on a platform of ‘Get Women In Massive Grundie’s’.

  Caitlin Moran

  Running, Lying, Weekend

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• [Tyson] looked him over with that massive baby-brown eye. “You are not dead. I like it when you are not dead.” Ella fluttered to the ground and began preening her feathers. “Ella found a dog,” she announced. “A large dog. And a Cyclops.” Was she blushing? Before Percy could decide, his black mastiff pounced on him, knocking Percy to the ground and barking so loudly that even Arion backed up. “Hey, Mrs. O'Leary,” Percy said. “Yeah, I love you, too, girl. Good dog.” Hazel squeaked. “You have a hellhound named Mrs. O'Leary?” “Long story.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Dog, Baby

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• Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative quest for survival, is surely a malady that pervades the human soul.

  Lawrence Anthony

  Thinking, Soul, Survival

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• Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be charming and wonderful and quite unalarming after all.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Names, Intellectual

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• I stabbed you. With a massive sword. You caught on fire." His lips twitched, almost imperceptibly. "Okay, so maybe our problems aren't like other couples.

  Cassandra Clare

  Couple, Fire, Lips

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• The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.

  D. A. Carson

  Encouragement, Teaching, Effort

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