Bigger Quotes - Page 8

• The bigger the network, the harder it is to leave. Many users find it too daunting to start afresh on a new site, so they quietly consent to Facebook's privacy bullying.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Bullying, Privacy, Site

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• So is civil society prepared for the future? Probably not. Most organisations have to live hand to mouth, juggling short-term funding and perpetual minor crises. Even the bigger ones rarely get much time to stand back and look at the bigger picture. Many are on a treadmill chasing after contracts and new funding.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Hands, Looks, Mouths

  "Civil engineering" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2007.

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• I have a tendency toward being a micromanager. Which, the bigger the project you're involved in, the harder that becomes.

  Christine Quinn

  Projects, Tendencies, Harder

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• Technology has moved away from sharing and toward ownership. This suits software and hardware companies just fine: They create new, bloated programs that require more disk space and processing power. We buy bigger, faster computers, which then require more complex operating systems, and so on.

  Douglas Rushkoff

  Technology, Space, Suits

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• The Buddhists say there are 149 ways to God. I'm not looking for God, only for myself, and that is far more complicated. God has had a great deal written about Him; nothing has been written about me. God is bigger, like my mother, easier to find, even in the dark. I could be anywhere, and since I can't describe myself I can't ask for help.

  Jeanette Winterson

  God, Mother, Buddhist

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• They say the world used to be bigger. The world's still the same--there's just less in it.

  Johnny Depp

  World, Used, Stills

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• Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Conservation, Form

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.48, University of Arizona Press

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• Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative. He could imagine the effect of each blow that was aimed at him, and this weakened his defense. Wart was only an infuriated hurricane.

  T. H. White

  Blow, Winning, Defense

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.75, Penguin

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• Love is blind, they say--but isn't it more that love makes us see too much? Isn't it more that love floods our brain with sights and sounds, so that everything looks bigger, brighter, more lovely than ever before?

  Susan Fletcher

  Love Is, Sight, Lovely

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• I never go to movies where the hero's tits are bigger than the heroine's.

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Witty, Hero

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• Mr. Speaker, I once again find myself compelled to vote against the annual budget resolution for a very simple reason: it makes government bigger.

  Ron Paul

  Simple, Government, Vote

  Ron Paul (2008). “Pillars of Prosperity: Free Markets, Honest Money, Private Property”, p.430, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The bigger your head, the easier to fill your shoes.

  Phil Jackson

  Shoes, Easier

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• When I have one martini, I feel bigger, wiser, taller. When I have a second, I feel superlative. When I have more, there's no holding me.

  William Faulkner

  Martini, Feels, Wiser

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• There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated... To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.

  Edward Abbey

  Distance, Interesting, Forever

  "The Journey Home : Some Words in Defense of the American West" by Edward Abbey, (p. 205), 1977.

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• They haven't left us much to believe, have they? — even disbelief. I can't believe in anything bigger than a home, or anything vaguer than a human being.

  Graham Greene

  Believe, Home, Disbelief

  "Triple pursuit: a Graham Greene omnibus".

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• Existence was bigger than just life. It was everyone's life all together, and even if you lived in Buffalo, New York and had never been more than ten miles from home, you were part of the puzzle, too. It didn't matter how small your life was.

  Paul Auster

  New York, Home, Together

  Paul Auster (2008). “The Brooklyn Follies”, p.68, Faber & Faber

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• No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something greater.

  Sarah Dessen

  Love, Keys, Order

  "This Lullaby". Book by Sarah Dessen, 2002.

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• The further in you go, the bigger it gets.

  John Crowley

  Esoteric Wisdom

  John Crowley (2015). “Little, Big”, p.71, Hachette UK

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• How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, “This is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?” Instead they say, “No, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.” A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

  Carl Sagan

  God, Science, Religion

  "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space". Book by Carl Sagan, 1994.

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• When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.

  Amy Hempel

  Mother, Father, Sorrow

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.367, Simon and Schuster

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• The more men see of the world, the bigger their hearts

  Avi

  Heart, Men, World

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• Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.

  Roald Dahl

  Age, Born, Twits

  Roald Dahl (2007). “The Twits”, p.11, Penguin

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• I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.

  Mitch Albom

  Dream, Paychecks

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.33, Broadway Books

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• The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.

  Steve Aylett

  Rabbits, Truck, Optimist

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• Slipping? We're bigger than Jesus.

  John Lennon

  Jesus, Slipping

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