Bigger Quotes - Page 10

• You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Winning, Race, People

  "Lullaby". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2002.

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• I'm not that complicated, Haven. The truth is, I've wanted you ever since I met you in that damned wine cellar. Because I got a bigger charge out of that five minutes than I have with any woman before or since.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Wine, Complicated, Truth Is

  Lisa Kleypas (2015). “The Travis Family Series, Books 1-3: Blue-Eyed Devil, Smooth Taking Stranger and Sugar Daddy”, p.95, St. Martin's Press

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• I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Eye, Wind, Understanding

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• I might be confused sometimes in my head but it is not something you need to talk about. Before you can talk you have to line it all up in order and I had rather just let it swirl around until I am too tired to think. You just let the motion in your head wear you out. Never think about it. You just make a bigger mess that way.

  Kaye Gibbons

  Confused, Tired, Thinking

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• Last week we went to the museum. A whole whale is hanging from the ceiling. Bigger than big! OK, have you seen a Volkswagon car that's like a bug? Um huh, you know what I'm talking about. That's how big the heart of a blue whale is. I know it's not possible, but if that heart was in me, could I love more?...I would like to.

  Sapphire

  Heart, Museums, Blue

  Sapphire (1996). “Push: A Novel”, Vintage

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• Then you're a bigger fool than I thought. Since when has any man ever been worthy of the woman he loved? It's only by God's grace that they love us in spite of ourselves.

  Teresa Medeiros

  Men, Grace, Fool

  Teresa Medeiros (2008). “The Bride and the Beast”, p.311, Bantam

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• When you set down the path to create art, whatever sort of art it is, understand that the path is neither short not easy. That means you must determine if the route is worth the effort. If it's not, dream bigger.

  Seth Godin

  Dream, Art, Mean

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• The city was bigger than its buildings, bigger than its inhabitants too. It had its own nuances. It accepted whatever came its way, the crime and the violence and the little shocks of good that crawled out from underneath the everyday.

  Colum McCann

  Cities, Everyday, Littles

  Colum McCann (2009). “Let The Great World Spin”, p.214, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' (748)

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Country, Strong, Powerful

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• There never was a moment in my life, when I felt so in the Presence, as I do now. I feel as if the Almighty were so real, and so near, that I could reach out and touch Him, as I could this wonderful work of His, if I dared. I feel like saying to Him: 'To the extent of my brain power I realize Your presence, and all it is in me to comprehend of Your power. Help me to learn, even this late, the lessons of Your wonderful creations. Help me to unshackle and expand my soul to the fullest realization of Your wonders. Almighty God, make me bigger, make me broader!

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Real, Soul, Brain

  Gene Stratton-Porter (2006). “A Girl of the Limberlost”, p.208, Applewood Books

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• A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power.

  Marianne Williamson

  Beautiful, Wise, Queens

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• My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.

  Haruki Murakami

  Years, Faults, Born

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “A Wild Sheep Chase”, p.64, Random House

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• Phoney: Here's your problem Fone Bone! We're off the map! Get a bigger map!

  Jeff Smith

  Maps, Problem, Bones

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• Causes have a way of tainting your reason until a person takes much bigger risks than sanity would otherwise allow.

  Brandon Mull

  Risk, Way, Causes

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• no matter how big you think your problems are, someone else's problems could always be bigger, which makes yours relatively small!

  Brenda Jackson

  Thinking, Matter, Problem

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• The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy offers this definition of the word "Infinite". Infinite: Bigger than the biggest thing ever and then some. Much bigger than that in fact, really amazingly immense, a totally stunning size, "wow, that's big", time. Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy. Gigantic multiplied by colossal multiplied by staggeringly huge is the sort of concept we're trying to get across here.

  Douglas Adams

  Trying, Facts, Infinity

  Douglas Adams (2008). “The Restaurant at the End of the Universe”, p.142, Del Rey

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• You do what you have to do or a bigger demon eats out your liver and uses your spine to pick its teeth. (Caleb)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Teeth, Use, Demon

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.281, St. Martin's Griffin

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• Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they’re real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.' - Chang Bibi to Anita

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Real, Monsters, Way

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• Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lot in it, stored up, high in miles of hidden shelving. Remember that she was the woman with the instrument strapped to her body in the long, moon-slit night.

  Markus Zusak

  Mistake, Heart, Moon

  Markus Zusak (2008). “The Book Thief”, p.536, Random House

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• What were you thinking about? When I came in?" "Being Sam," I said. "What a nice thing to be," Grace said. And then she smiled, bigger and bigger, until I felt my expression mirror hers, our noses touching.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Nice, Thinking, Mirrors

  Maggie Stiefvater (2014). “Shiver Series (Shiver, Linger, Forever, Sinner)”, p.368, Scholastic Inc.

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• In this story, the sun moves. In this story, every night meets a dawn and burns away in the bright morning. In this story, Winter can never hold back the Spring... He is the best of all possible audiences, the only Audience to see every scene, the Author who became a Character and heaped every shadow on Himself. The Greeks were right. Live in fear of a grinding end and a dank hereafter. Unless you know a bigger God, or better yet, are related to Him by blood.

  N.D. Wilson

  Morning, Spring, Moving

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• Fireheart tensed, waiting for whatever had hunted down these apprentices to emerge from the trees and attack, but nothing stirred. Feeling as if his legs hardly belonged to him, he sprang down and stumbled across to Swiftpaw. The apprentice lay on his side, his legs splayed out. His black-and-white fur was torn, and his body was covered with dreadful wounds, ripped by teeth far bigger than any cat's. His jaws still snarled and his eyes glared. He was dead, and Fireheart could see that he had died fighting.

  Erin Hunter

  Cat, Eye, Fighting

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• I thought about the relentless thought-processing, soul-devouring machine that is my brain, and wondered how on earth I was ever going to master it. Then I remembered that line from Jaws and couldn't help smiling: 'We're gonna need a bigger boat.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Soul, Brain, Mind

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.144, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.

  Charles de Lint

  Way, Sometimes, Bigger Picture

  Tanith Lee, Kara Dalkey, Charles De Lint, Pamela Dean (2006). “Firebirds Rising: An Anthology of Original Science Fiction and Fantasy”, p.133, Penguin

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• We have bigger things to brood on and enormous reasons for wallowing in terminal craziness until we finally hit bottom.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Reason, Craziness, Enormous

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.23, Pan Macmillan

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