Size Quotes - Page 40

• It would be difficult, indeed, to overestimate the transcendent importance of the part the railroad has played in making the Nation what it is to-day. Perhaps it would be within bounds to say that without railroads to bind the States into one homogeneous whole, the Nation never could have attained its present size and importance.

  Charles Frederick Carter

  Would Be, Railroads, States

  Charles Frederick Carter (1909). “When railroads were new”

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• My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Ambition, Jeans, Life Is

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• Growth is not merely a harmonious increase in size, but a transformation.

  Maria Montessori

  Growth, Transformation, Increase

  Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.70, Ravenio Books

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• Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! Parents first season us; then schoolmasters deliver us to laws; they send us bound to rules of reason, holy messengers, pulpits and Sundays, sorrow dogging sin, afflictions sorted, anguish of all sizes, fine nets and stratagems to catch us in, bibles laid open, millions of surprises, blessings beforehand, ties of gratefulness, the sound of glory ringing in our ears: without, our shame; within, our consciences; angels and grace, eternal hopes and fears. Yet all these fences and their whole array one cunning bosom-sin blows quite away.

  George Herbert

  Angel, Sunday, Blessing

  George Herbert (1853). “The works of the Rev. George Herbert: with remarks on his writings, and a sketch of his life”, p.47

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• The first commandment of economics is: Grow. Grow forever. Companies get bigger. National economies need to swell by a certain percent each year. People should want more, make more, earn more, spend more - ever more.
  The first commandment of the Earth is: enough. Just so much and no more. Just so much soil. Just so much water. Just so much sunshine. Everything born of the Earth grows to its appropriate size and then stops.

  Donella Meadows

  Sunshine, Years, People

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• The content people have no clue. I mean, no clue. The cost of bandwidth is going down to nothing. And the size of hard drives is getting so big, and they're so cheap, that pretty soon you'll have every song you own on one hard drive. The content distribution industry is going to evaporate.

  Bram Cohen

  Song, Mean, People

  "The BitTorrent Effect" by Clive Thompson, www.wired.com. January 01, 2005.

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• Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size.

  Ronnie Coleman

  Bodybuilding, Pull Ups, Underestimate

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• Some people's joints articulate in a manner that allows them to benefit greatly from squats; others may not benefit at all. If you're not too tall and have short limbs, it may be the best exercise for you, but if you're tall with long legs, it might be both ineffective and dangerous.I was stubbornly faithful to squats for years until I finally realized they were not well-suited for my body structure. After I switched tomore muscle-intensive movements, my gains in leg size were astounding.

  Dorian Yates

  Exercise, Years, Long

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• It took thirty-eight years before 50 million people gained access to radios. It took television thirteen years to earn an audience that size. It took Instagram a year and a half.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Eight, Years, People

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2013). “Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• But typically for a project like the Mac, the size we had was pretty good. And it has different stages. The team grows as you have to write manuals and do testing... though the Mac had no formal testing.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Team, Writing, Different

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• I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth

  Peter Steele

  Feet, Mouths, Fifteen

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• The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.

  Howard Tayler

  Paychecks, Likelihood, Surviving

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• The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.

  Pete Carroll

  Football, Moving, Player

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• Broken wings fit more easily in standard-size boxes.

  Mikhail Turovsky

  Wings, Broken, Fit

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• The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Fighting, Army, Organization

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• Capping the size of American banks won't eliminate the needs of big businesses; it will force them to turn to foreign banks that won't face the same restrictions.

  Jamie Dimon

  Needs, Faces, Restriction

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• Size without shape is grotesque.

  Vince Gironda

  Shapes, Grotesque

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• There’s no need to glamorize one body type and slam another. We need to stop this absurd hatred towards bodies for being different sizes. It doesn’t help anyone and it’s getting old.

  Jennie Runk

  Hatred, Being Different, Body Types

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• The truth is I couldn’t care less about needing a supposed 'thigh gap.' It’s just another tool of manipulation that other people are trying to use to keep me from loving my body. Why would I want to starve and weaken my natural body size? I’m not saying women who have it naturally are unattractive. But I would have to change my entire frame just to achieve something that seems so trivial.

  Robyn Lawley

  People, Trying, Tools

  "Why The Dangerous ‘Thigh Gap’ Trend Makes Me Mad" by Robyn Lawley, www.thedailybeast.com. October 28, 2013.

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• Since there is an assumption that a lot of models ‘starve themselves’ to stay thin, I always find it both funny and shocking when people ask me if I ‘overeat’ or am ‘fed better’ on photo shoots to help me stay a ‘larger size.’ While I may be a total foodie and enjoy cooking, I simply eat when I’m hungry and finish just before I’m full.

  Robyn Lawley

  People, Cooking, May

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• A healthy body isn't defined by weight or size. It's about so much more.

  Robyn Lawley

  Healthy, Weight, Body

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• I've got big hips and a big body. I'm double, triple the size of other models - and I embrace that - I own it.

  Robyn Lawley

  Body, Hips, Embrace

  "Robyn Lawley’s GQ Australia Spread Is The Fashion Shoot We’ve Been Waiting For". www.huffingtonpost.com. October 15, 2013.

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• I saw also the relationship between the two popes I saw how baleful (evil; harmful) would be the consequences of this false church. I saw it increase in size; heretics of every kind came into the city (of Rome) Once more I saw the Church of Peter was undermined by a plan evolved by the secret sect (Masonry), while storms were damaging it.

  Anne Catherine Emmerich

  Rome, Cities, Two

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• Intrinsic value is not measured by how much money you make,
  it's measured by the size of the problem you solve.

  Joe Jordan

  Problem, Intrinsic Value, Solve

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• I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I'd never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.

  John Fogerty

  Cheating, Cutting, Thinking

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