Size Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A great man is always willing to be little.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Kami Garcia
“There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.”
Kami Garcia, Beautiful Darkness

Michael Bassey Johnson
“No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

“Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.”
John Johnson

“Yes no yes no yes no?
Red blue?
Yes red, no blue?
No red, yes no?
In out, up down?
Do don't, can can't?
Choices sit on the shelf life
New shoes in a shoe shop.
If the in crowd are squeezing into a must-have shoe
And the one pair left are too tiny for you
Don't feel compelled into choosing them
If you're really a size 9, buy that size.
While everyone else
Hobbles round with sore feet
Your choices should feel comfortable
Or they aren't your choices at all.
Why limp when you can sprint?”
David Baird, Fiesta of Happiness: Be True to Yourself

Jeff VanderMeer
“But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental. You still see the shadow of the whole rearing up behind you, and you become lost in your thoughts in part from the panic of realizing the size of that imagined leviathan.”
Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

Thomas Hardy
“You would hardly think, at first, that horrid monsters lie up there waiting to be discovered by any moderately penetrating mind--monsters to which those of the oceans bear no sort of comparison."

What monsters may they be?"

Impersonal monsters, namely, Immensities. Until a person has thought out the stars and their inter-spaces, he has hardly learnt that there are things much more terrible than monsters of shape, namely, monsters of magnitude without known shape. Such monsters are the voids and waste places of the sky... In these our sight plunges quite beyond any twinkler we have yet visited. Those deep wells for the human mind to let itself down into, leave alone the human body! and think of the side caverns and secondary abysses to right and left as you pass on!...

There is a size at which dignity begins," he exclaimed; "further on there is a size at which grandeur begins; further on there is a size at which solemnity begins; further on, a size at which awfulness begins; further on, a size at which ghastliness begins. That size faintly approaches the size of the stellar universe. So am I not right in saying that those minds who exert their imaginative powers to bury themselves in the depths of that universe merely strain their faculties to gain a new horror?”
Thomas Hardy, Two on a Tower

“It kind of struck me how great it would be to go out with a guy that size. And if you, you know, got tired of dating him, you could always use him as a house or something.”
Catherine Gilbert Murdock, Dairy Queen

Stanisław Lem
“The horse respects and obeys man because its large eyes magnify everything, so man appears much larger than the horse itself.”
Stanisław Lem, Highcastle: A Remembrance
tags: eyes, size

Kathryn Davis
“You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller.”
Kathryn Davis

Sherry Thomas
“All right, my hope—but I am not saying the rest of it—I have something you need to feel.”

She feigned the sound of outrage. “But we barely know each other, sir!”

He laughed softly. “But you must hold it in your hand and feel it change,” he urged, in her ear. “I insist. I can wait no longer.”

She knew they were on a serious subject, but the flutter of his breath on her skin, the low drawl of his words—heat raced along all her nerve endings. “Will I like it?”

“Well, I do have to apologize for its size. It is rather small.” And with that, he pressed something rather small into her hand.”
Sherry Thomas, The Perilous Sea

David H. Keller
“All space is relative. There is no such thing as size. The telescope and the microscope have produced a deadly leveling of great and small, far and near. The only little thing is sin, the only great thing is fear!

("The Jelly-Fish")”
David H. Keller, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

Mary Roach
“No one is excluded from the astronaut corps based on penis size.”
Mary Roach, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
tags: size

Cameron Conaway
“The historic beauty of BJJ rests not with its ability to allow a smaller man to maim a larger man, but with its ability to allow any man of any size to survive.”
Cameron Conaway, Caged: Memoirs of a Cage-Fighting Poet

Sol Yurick
“It's the way of the lay, not the size of the prize.”
Sol Yurick, The Warriors
tags: sex, size

Howard Tayler
“Welcome to your new bodies, gentlemen. If you'd like, I can help you start your own 'dysmorphia is all in your head' support group.”
Howard Tayler, The Tub of Happiness

Israelmore Ayivor
“The size of the tree you cut determines the weight with which you have to throw the axe.”
Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream

Toba Beta
“I tell you about a fact and truth. In physical reality of matter,
there's no such thing as an imaginary spirit nor spiritual ghost.
They are also made of matter, but totally different in size and
laws of physics which rule their life and the way they interact.”
Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza

Erin Jamison
“Nessa held her arm up. She was staring at it, trying to gauge how big that was. “Dude, that’s as big as my arm. That’s like being f****d by a limb dude!” She wiggled her arm back and forth. “That's not normal.”
Erin Jamison, Better Than 8: Fantasy

Steven Magee
“In solar photovoltaics, it is much better to over-size the electrical components of the DC circuit than to under-size it.”
Steven Magee

Lewis Carroll
“I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly,' Alice replied very politely, 'for I can't understand it myself, to begin with, and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing”
Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Other Classic Worlds

Lewis Carroll
“I'm afraid I can't put it more clearly," Alice replied very politely, "for I can't understand it myself, to begin with, and being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing.”
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass / The Hunting of the Snark

Jarod Kintz
“My heart has defined size, which means its volume can be calculated. Despite this, the amount of love for you it can hold is without limit.”
Jarod Kintz, Powdered Saxophone Music

“Measure yourself against the enemy before declaring war; those who fail to hunt the foxes in the neighbourhood should stay clear of the elephants.”
R. N. Prasher

“Global medical device contract manufacturing market is expected to grow at 12.3% CAGR from 2019 to 2028”
akshay, The Discovery of India

“Laparoscopic and open hernia mesh repair surgery market is expected to grow at 2.3% CAGR from 2021 to 2028”
Akshay
tags: size

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The size of any step is always dwarfed by the fact that we took it.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

Craig D. Lounsbrough
“The heart of a giant is never bound by the size of the man.”
Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Israel must not be larger just to be larger. It must be larger to be economically self-sustaining. It must be larger so that it is strong enough to win political allies. It must be larger so that it will be in a better position to do more good for more people throughout the world.”
David Naggar, The Case for a Larger Israel

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