Quotes of: Large-numbers Keyword

Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide.

Henri Barbusse

He who knows all the answers, but none of the questions is like a large gobbling bird on Thanksgiving.

Jayce O'Neal

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

John Ruskin

By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.

Duke Ellington

Unemployment is due to the large import of goods from Britain and other countries. The Government haven't used the powers which they have for the benefit of the country.

Eamon de Valera

A lack of government oversight hasn't hindered the Internet. Quite the opposite. A hands-off approach is largely responsible for its fantastic growth and success.

Heather Brooke

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

H. L. Mencken

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

Neale Donald Walsch

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

Arnold J. Toynbee

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.

Alice Walker

Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.

John Grisham

Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words 'large' or 'size' with 'rear end.' Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me.

Tim Allen

In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

Albert Einstein

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Albert Einstein

Give tax breaks to large corporations, so that money can trickle down to the general public, in the form of extra jobs.

Andrew Mellon

Where there are large powers with little ambition... nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes.

Jonathan Swift

The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

Well, certainly one of the ironies of the success of affirmative action is that the middle class within the black community no longer lives within 'black community' by and large.

Henry Louis Gates

To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.

Major Taylor

I think music has the power to transform people, and in doing so, it has the power to transform situations - some large and some small.

Joan Baez

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

Ambrose Bierce