Bigger Quotes - Page 9

• I smoked and looked down at the bottom of Pittsburgh for a little while, watching the kids playing tiny baseball, the distant figures of dogs snatching at a little passing car, a miniature housewife on her back porch shaking out a snippet of red rug, and I made a sudden, frightened vow never to become that small, and to devote myself to getting bigger and bigger and bigger.

  Michael Chabon

  Baseball, Dog, Kids

  Michael Chabon (2011). “The Mysteries of Pittsburgh”, p.48, Open Road Media

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• And even now she beats her head against the bars in the same old way and wonders if there is a bigger place the railroads run to from Chicago where maybe there is romance and big things and real dreams that never go smash.

  Carl Sandburg

  Running, Dream, Real

  Carl Sandburg (2012). “Chicago Poems: Unabridged”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• love is thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad and moonly and less it shall unbe than all the sea which only is deeper than the sea love is less always than to win less never than alive less bigger than the least begin less littler than forgive it is most sane and sunly and more it cannot die than all the sky which only is higher than the sky

  e. e. cummings

  Winning, Love Is, Sea

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.66, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We are human, and we suffer, and unlike the animals on the farm, we are self-aware, and we know that we suffer, and it doesn't hurt more or less if God caused it or could stop it, at least for me. I am definitely of the school that believes God has bigger stuff to worry about than me.

  Jon Katz

  Hurt, Believe, School

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• People think that alien spaceships would be solid and made of metal and have lights all over them and move slowly through the sky because that is how we would build a spaceship if we were able to build one that big. But aliens, if they exist, would probably be very different from us. They might look like big slugs, or be flat like reflections. Or they might be bigger than planets. Or they might not have bodies at all. They might just be information, like in a computer. And their spaceships might look like clouds, or be made up of unconnected objects like dust or leaves.

  Mark Haddon

  Moving, Reflection, Thinking

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• I don't think jealousy has much of a connection with real, objective conditions. Like if you're fortunate you're not jealous, but if life hasn't blessed you, you are jealous. Jealousy doesn't work that way. It's more like a tumor secretly growing inside us that gets bigger and bigger, beyond all reason. Even if you find out it's there, there's nothing you can do to stop it.

  Haruki Murakami

  Real, Blessed, Jealous

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• "Look," I said, "We knew Jason and Becky would be back, the break would end. This isn't a surprise, it's what's supposed to happen. It's what we wanted. Right?" "Is it?" he asked. "Is it what you want?" Whether he intended it to be or not, this was the final question, the last Truth. If I said what I really thought, I was opening myself up for a hurt bigger than I could even imagine. I didn't have it in me. We changed and altered so many rules, but it was this one, the only one when we'd started, that I would break. "Yes," I said.

  Sarah Dessen

  Hurt, Jason, Would Be

  "The Truth About Forever". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2004.

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• Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the outside - some have weirder lives than you. Six billion stories, every one an epic, full of tragedy and triumph, good and evil, despair and hope. You and me - we aren't so special, bro.

  Dean Koontz

  Epic, Order, Shoes

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.205, Bantam

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• There is so much darkness in Ember, Lina. It's not just outside, it's inside us, too. Everyone has some darkness inside. It's like a hungry creature. It wants and wants and wants with a terrible power. And the more you give it, the bigger and hungrier it gets.

  Jeanne DuPrau

  Life, Giving, Darkness

  Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.96, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• She was surprised at how tiny it seemed now. She supposed the school was just as big as it had ever been only her eyes had grown used to looking at bigger things.

  Betty Smith

  School, Eye, Tiny

  "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn".

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• The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual.

  Carl Jung

  Inspirational, Crowds, Individual

  Carl Gustav Jung (2013). “The Undiscovered Self”, p.10, Routledge

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• A small lie needs a bodyguard of bigger lies to protect it.

  Winston Churchill

  Lying, Needs, Protect

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• let it go -- the smashed word broken open vow or the oath cracked length wise -- let it go it was sworn to go let them go -- the truthful liars and the false fair friends and the boths and neithers -- you must let them go they were born to go let all go -- the big small middling tall bigger really the biggest and all things -- let all go dear so comes love

  e. e. cummings

  Wise, Liars, Broken

  e. e. cummings (2014). “100 Selected Poems”, p.79, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The larger crimes are apt to be the simpler, for the bigger the crime, the more obvious, as a rule, is the motive.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Crime, Obvious, Motive

  E. W. Hornung, Arthur Conan Doyle, John Kendrick Bangs (2016). “COLLECTOR’S EDITION – COMPLETE RAFFLES SERIES & SHERLOCK HOLMES ADVENTURES: 60+ Novels & Stories in One Volume (Mystery & Crime Classics): Including The Amateur Cracksman, The Black Mask, A Thief in the Night, Mr. Justice Raffles, Mrs. Raffles, R. Holmes & Co., and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.823, e-artnow

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• I have a face like a washrag. I sing love songs and carry steel. I would rather die than cry. I can't stand hounds can't live without them. I hang my head against the white refrigerator and want to scream like the last weeping of life forever but I am bigger than the mountains.

  Charles Bukowski

  Song, White, Forever

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• There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might bright about. Why pick up a pen or type on a keyboard if there's no imagination or wonder left to behold? I would hate to be in the position of hoping for nothing simply because my brain can no longer dream.

  Obert Skye

  Dream, Hate, Lying

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• i will follow it, though i know so well now the deep wounds i might find. for as long as i believe that i am walking the true road, if i am slain, then i die in the knowledge that for a brief time, at least, i was part of somethin bigger. this road has perils and i will surely die on it,but, i am not afraid to die.

  R. A. Salvatore

  Believe, Long, Deep Wounds

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• Bond always mistrusted short men. They grew up from childhood with an inferiority complex. All their lives they would strive to be big - bigger than the others who had teased them as a child. Napoleon had been short, and Hitler. It was the short men that caused all the trouble in the world.

  Ian Fleming

  Children, Men, Childhood

  Ian Fleming (1992). “Goldfinger”, Chivers North Amer

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• If you will lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.

  Joel Osteen

  Lying, Long, Littles

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• I can worship Nature, and that fulfills my need for miracles and beauty. Art gives a spiritual depth to existence -- I can find worlds bigger and deeper than my own in music, paintings, and books. And from my friends and family I receive the highest benediction, emotional contact, and personal affirmation. I can bow before the works of Man, from buildings to babies, and that fulfills my need for wonder. I can believe in the sanctity of Life, and that becomes the Revealed Word, to live my life as I believe it should be, not as I'm told to by self-appointed guides.

  Neil Peart

  Spiritual, Baby, Art

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• Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

  Ann Landers

  Courage, Eye, Looks

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• I lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People see the log and call it a twig. They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Eye, Blow, People

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.150, Penguin

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• Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Our World, Whole

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• He'd assumed that you went to school because you had to learn things, starting off with the easy stuff and moving on to the bigger issues, and once you'd learned them that was it, the way ahead opened up and thereafter life was simple and straightforward. What a joke. The older he got, the more complicated and obscure everything became.

  Mary Lawson

  Moving, School, Simple

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• Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

  August Wilson

  Belief, Disbelief, Belief In Yourself

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