Size Quotes - Page 29

• I realized about 10 years ago that my wealth has to go back to society. A fortune, the size of which is hard to imagine, is best not passed on to one's children. It's not constructive for them.

  Bill Gates

  Life, Inspiring, Education

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• I read a comment [about me] on YouTube that I thought would upset me — ‘Test pilot for pies’ — but I’ve always been a size 14-16 and been fine with it. I would only lose weight if it affected my health or sex life, which it doesn’t.

  Adele

  Sex, Pie, Upset

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• I am invariably and have been since adolescence inimical to the Republican mind which shows at the most inflated size the bad qualities of the bourgeoisie rather than the good qualities of the middle class which the Democrats call forth.

  Janet Flanner

  Class, Mind, Quality

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• Sports is about balls and about heart and you don't find too many champions in any sport in the world without heart or balls. He might have them, but against Nadal they shrink to a very small size and it's not once, it's every time.

  Mats Wilander

  Sports, Heart, Champion

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• Sargent, when he painted the size of life, placed his canvas on a level with the model, walked back until canvas and sitter were equal before his eye, and was thus able to estimate the construction and values of his representation.

  William Rothenstein

  Eye, Levels, Able

  Sir William Rothenstein (1934). “Men and memories: recollections of William Rothenstein”

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• Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Artist, Garden, Lines

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• God measures people by the small dimensions of humility and not by the bigness of their achievements or the size of their capabilities.

  Billy Graham

  Humility, People, Achievement

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.

  Inspirational, Funny, Respect

  Keep the Faith, Baby! "Black Power: A Form of Godly Power" (1967)

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• What went wrong is we had tremendous concentration in the sense we put a lot of our money to work against U.S. real estate. We got here by lending money, and putting money to work in the U.S. real estate market, in a size that was probably larger than what we ought to have done on a diversification basis.

  Vikram Pandit

  Real, Risk, Done

  "Charlie Rose" with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. November 25, 2008.

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• My experience is that inventors come in all sizes, all nationalities, all ages. The only thing I'm sure of is that inventors are always stubborn.

  Robert Dilts

  Being Different, Age, Stubborn

  Robert Dilts, Todd Epstein, Robert W. Dilts (1991). “Tools for dreamers: strategies for creativity and the structure of innovation”, Meta Pubns

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• Without its daydreams, the self is apt to shrink down to the size and shape of the estimation of others

  Michael Pollan

  Self, Shapes, Daydreaming

  Michael Pollan (2013). “A Place of My Own: The Education of an Amateur Builder”, p.9, Random House

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• I don't think there is one size that fits all. I've been to too many meetings with journalists who spent the first 10 minutes of the meeting setting up iPad to look like a laptop.

  Steve Ballmer

  Thinking, Ipads, Looks

  "Steve Ballmer: Apple Has Sold More iPads Than I'd Like" by Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com. July 29, 2010.

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• I've built a solid career there, but America's ten times the size. Now that we're onto the third record, I feel like the stars have aligned and American audiences are embracing my music even more.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Stars, Careers, America

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• Gradually, at the concerts, I began to hear calls for 'the fat girl'.... Then I would jump up for the piano stool, forgetting about my size [145 lbs at age 13], and work to get all the laughs I could get.

  Sophie Tucker

  Girl, Piano, Laughing

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• The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as we know it is based upon one tradition that has been waddling along for the last fifty years, growing in size and ungainliness, and is essentially defining the way we do everything. My view is that today’s computer world is based on techie misunderstandings of human thought and human life. And the imposition of inappropriate structures throughout the computer is the imposition of inappropriate structures on the things we want to do in the human world.

  Ted Nelson

  Views, Years, Defining

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• Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in ... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me. It would be nice if models were allowed to be a more healthy weight - for the models, and for the young women who look up to them. We were athletic and healthy, and we looked like women.

  Tatjana Patitz

  Girl, Zero, Nice

  "The forgotten supermodel" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2009.

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• Why did Africa let Europe cart away millions of Africa's souls from the continent to the four corners of the wind? How could Europe lord it over a continent ten times its size? Why does needy Africa continue to let its wealth meet the needs of those outside its borders and then follow behind with hands outstretched for a loan of the very wealth it let go? How did we arrive at this, that the best leader is the one that knows how to beg for a share of what he has already given away at the price of a broken tool? Where is the future of Africa?

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Letting Go, Wind, Hands

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• Our days are like identical suitcases. Even though they are all the same size, some people are able to pack more into them then others. The reason? They know what to pack.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, People, Able

  John C. Maxwell (2015). “The Leadership Handbook: 26 Critical Lessons Every Leader Needs”, p.114, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it changes as it becomes larger in size.

  Jay Maisel

  Photography, Fall, Light

  Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.5, New Riders

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• Don't be intimidated by the size of your problem or the size of your dream. God will see to it that it is finished completely.

  Joel Osteen

  Dream, Problem, Gods Will

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• Headlines twice the size of the events.

  John Galsworthy

  Workout, Events, Headlines

  John Galsworthy (2008). “End of the Chapter: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.349, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I was very close to playing at an Ivy League School. The Division I schools, when a coach would come visit all he would talk about was my size.

  Doug Flutie

  School, Ivy, League

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• The public doesnt care about my size. Its just something for the media to talk about.

  Doug Flutie

  Media, Care

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• Save me from the error of judging a church by its size, popularity or the amount of its yearly offerings.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Errors, Offering, Judging

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• Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.

  John Podesta

  Teacher, Home, Thinking

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