In art, there is one thing which does not receive sufficient attention. The element which is left to the human will is not nearly so large as people think.
People do not read, by and large. They watch television.
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model to work from.
Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.
You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the complexity of the information.
Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song.
For though we often need to be restored to the small, concrete, limited, and certain, we as often need to be reminded of the large, vague, unlimited, unknown
Many artists I enjoy have a large body of work, and eventually the message is derived out from the sum of its parts.
The supply of leaks is very large. It's helpful for us to have more people in this industry. It's protective to us.
If you bring cases against powerful bankers, they will enlist their political allies and they will give very large political contributions to do that
When we can find some humor in our upsets, they no longer seem as large or as important as they once did.
She once used me with that insolence, that in revenge I took her to pieces; sifted her, and separated her failings; I studied 'em, and got 'em by rote. The catalogue was so large, that I was not without hopes, one day or other to hate her heartily.
I think maybe it is about time for a governor who has created jobs, who's managed a budget, who's led and inspired large organizations, who listens well, and who can drive an agenda
Every man who accomplishes things sees first in his mind what he wishes to do. He puts away all doubt. It makes no difference how small or how large the thing you want to do may be; if you have an unlimited confidence in your ability to do it, you will do
It is a well- known fact that although the public is fine when taken individually, when it forms itself into large groups, it tends to act as though it has one partially consumed Pez tablet for a brain.
We may please ourselves with the prospect of free and popular governments. But there is great danger that those governments will not make us happy. God grant they may. But I fear that in every assembly, members will obtain an influence by noise, not sense. By meanness, not greatness. By ignorance, not learning. By contracted hearts, not large souls.
The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.
That our world is so massive that it is completely out of our control, that we cannot possibly be as large as we feel.
That's what I love about working for Marvel is how welcoming and kind everyone is. Zendaya has such a large following on Instagram, and the majority of those people are all for her and love her, and I feel like our generation of people are moving on from that. This whole, you can't cast someone who's not of the right race for a character and such, and I really feel like we're breaking through and changing that. And Z is perfect. She's so strong willed, it's not going to shake her at all.
If you know what makes one person's life change, then you know what makes a nation change - because a nation is simply a large group of individuals.