The clan is nothing more than a larger family, with its patriarchal chief as the natural head, and the union of several clans by intermarriage and voluntary connection constitutes the tribe.
Super-Earths are how we call a family of planets... up to two times larger and about ten times more massive than the Earth.
The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.
The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.
For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
I have tried very hard as a novelist to say, 'Novels are about individuals and especially larger than life individuals.'
You think of George Washington, this man who was larger than life, and in some ways he was. But at the same time, he's just a person.
Poker is a charismatic game. People who are larger than life play poker and make their living from playing games and hustling.
When you take the small roads you see the life that goes on there, and this makes your own life larger.
May your dreams be larger than mountains and may you have the courage to scale their summits.
Tragedy is one of the larger prices we pay for being alive. No one ever sidesteps tragedy. It is always there, shadowing us.
I'm a creature of habit, so I like going to boutiques, rather than larger stores, where I know I'll find something that suits me every time.
A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.
I think having nature be a part of people's lives helps all of us see ourselves as part of something larger.
These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.
In the society, where people are just parts in a larger machine, individuals are unable to develop fully.
Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes.
I always loved as a kid reading 'Spider-Man,' and the 'Fantastic Four' would show up... it was all about that larger universe.
Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.
War is chaotic and when you start having a larger scale film and you have a lot of safety protocols and choreography, I would imagine it becomes more difficult.
