#larger

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. ↗

— George Eliot

#chinese #else #feet #fixed #happiness

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value. ↗

— Ben Elton

#change #does #earth #ever #inventing

We were gradually playing larger venues and in the early days PA systems were kind of non-existent. So to play loud, we had to use louder equipment. The PA systems back then didn't mic the instruments - only the vocals. ↗

— John Entwistle

#days #early #equipment #gradually #had

The present assault upon capital is but the beginning. It will be but a stepping-stone to others, larger and more sweeping, till our political contests will become a war of the poor against the rich. ↗

— Stephen J. Field

#assault #become #beginning #capital #contests

A person is a pattern of behavior, of a larger awareness. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#behavior #larger #pattern #person

I said we are going to balance an $11 billion budget deficit in a $29 billion budget, so by percentage, the largest budget deficit in America, by percentage, larger than California, larger than New York, larger than Illinois. And we're going to balance that without raising taxes on the people of the state of New Jersey. ↗

— Chris Christie

#balance #billion #budget #budget deficit #california

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger. ↗

— Stephen Covey

#genuinely #gets #happy #i #instead

Good fiction must be entertaining, but what makes fiction special - and True - is that the realness of a novel allows it to carry a larger message. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#carry #entertaining #fiction #good #larger

We paid off our debts, we learned some, made friends and returned in 1950 with a larger view of life. I had, however, no home, no income of any kind and no prospects whatsoever. ↗

— James W. Black

#debts #friends #had #home #however

American businesses and upper incomes pay a larger portion of the federal taxes of our national taxes than any country in the world. ↗

— Jim DeMint

#american businesses #any #businesses #country #federal