(1543 quotes found)
“If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.”
William Howard Taft
“Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures.”
Henry Anatole Grunwald
“No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace or insure it victory in time of war”
Calvin Coolidge
“The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.”
Jean Baudrillard
“Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.”
Edmund Waller
“Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.”
William Rose Benet
“A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.”
Walter Lippmann
“The world is large, when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small, when your enemy is loose on the other side”
John Boyle O'Reilly
“Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.”
Mark Rothko
“We have come to realize that a large hedge fund like Quantum Fund is no longer the best way to manage money, ... Markets have become extremely unstable and historical measures of value at risk no longer apply.”
George Soros
