#larger

A true history of human events would show that a far larger proportion of our acts are the result of sudden impulse and accident than of that reason of which we so much boast. ↗

— Peter Cooper

#acts #boast #events #far #history

Actors ought to be larger than life. You come across quite enough ordinary, nondescript people in daily life and I don't see why you should be subjected to them on the stage too. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#come #daily #daily life #enough #i

We are as great as our belief in human liberty - no greater. And our belief in human liberty is only ours when it is larger than ourselves. ↗

— Archibald MacLeish

#great #greater #human #human liberty #larger

We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing. ↗

— Roger Mahony

#catholics #community #counseling #general #grandfathers

We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#anything #call #child #effort #habit

We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways. That's what makes a character like Batman so fascinating. He plays out our conflicts on a much larger scale. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

#character #conflicts #fascinating #know #larger

After assembly complete, when we have a larger crew on orbit, a more complex vehicle, more laboratories and more robot arms, maybe we'll have room for specialists. But right now we don't. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#arms #assembly #complete #complex #crew

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser. ↗

— Plato

#larger #lesser #lie #say #stones

One of the things that is not so good is that a decision was made long ago about the size of an IP address - 32 bits. At the time it was a number much larger than anyone could imagine ever having that many computers but it turned out to be to small. ↗

— Jon Postel

#address #ago #anyone #bits #computers

The UN's unique legitimacy flows from a universal perception that it pursues a larger purpose than the interests of one country or a small group of countries. ↗

— Atal Bihari Vajpayee

#country #flows #group #interests #larger