Quotes of: Great-extent Keyword

The great pagan sadness of modern man is largely due to his premonition of ultimate disaster.

The Menace Of The Herd: Or, Procrustes At Large

There’s a great drought in my village. People are dying. The price of rice and pulses has rocketed. There is no water anywhere. And here, people are complaining about the rain...

Monsoon Memories

Thus suffering completely fills the human soul and conscious mind, no matter whether the suffering is great or little. Therefore the 'size' of human suffering is absolutely relative".

Man's Search for Meaning

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers

I will not talk of my own happiness,' said he, 'great as it is, for I think only of yours. Compared with you, who has the right to be happy?

Mansfield Park

I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge.

Mansfield Park

In following your inclinations and moving toward mastery, you make a great contribution to society, enriching it with discoveries and insights, and making the most of the diversity in nature and among human society.

Mastery

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

The Misanthrope

Great style and posture go hand in hand.

My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

Great posture never goes out of style.

My Style, My Way: Top Experts Reveal How to Create Yours Today

Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and ideas.

Margaret Thatcher

This is England," he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.

The Madness Underneath

I should have known that having "end of the world" sex wouldn't solve our problems. Though, it was pretty great and I highly recommend it.

Married with Zombies

The name of a great writer is usually bigger than the title of his book. Both literally and figuratively.

N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups

The greatest temptations are not those that solicit our consent to obvious sin, but those that offer us great evils masking as the greatest goods.

No Man Is an Island

Those who will never be fooled can never be delighted, because without self-forgetfulness there can be no delight, and this is a great and grievous loss.

The Narnian: The Life and Imagination of C. S. Lewis

The water moves on, a little faster than before, yet still the great river flows. It is as fluid and unpredictable in its moods as it has ever been, but it meanders within familiar banks.

Nine Lives

She was endowed with great beauty for all those attributes that were outside her control, but it was said that in all characteristics for which she herself was responsible, she was utterly wicked

Njal's Saga

I recall when this place was a good 'n honest community hall with a great sense of place and pride but now it's just a hall and fuck the community.

The Nobody Show

Can we swim?" Sky asks, resting her chin on my shoulder. "Did you bring a suit?" Please say no, please say no... "Yeah." Crap. "Great.

Night Sky