Size Quotes - page 2

The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops, but the kind of man that the country turns out. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. View quote
David Deutsch
The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest of us, like the man in the street, but rather like a foreigner who does not belong here. We have to cut you down to size, expose your tricks, purge you. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes several million sperm cells... to locate a female egg, despite the fact that the egg is, relative to them, the size of Wisconsin. View quote
Dave Barry
Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size that everyone does not know everyone else. View quote
Julian Jaynes
Nothing that grieves us can be called little by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size. View quote
Mark Twain
Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It may be present in lives whose range is very small. View quote
Phillips Brooks
No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth! View quote
Ronald Reagan
The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern. View quote
Ronald Reagan
These are, of course, some things which, for utility's sake, must be made of the same size in a small theatre, and a large one: such as the steps, curved cross-aisles, their parapets, the passages, stairways, stages, tribunals, and any other things which occur that make it necessary to give up symmetry so as not to interfere with utility. View quote
Vitruvius
The size of your body is just right. The only question is whether you're big enough inside. (Patrick Carman)
Because of their size, parents may be difficult to discipline properly. View quote
P. J. O'Rourke
The only number that would ever be enough is 0. Zero pounds, zero life, size zero, double-zero, zero point. Zero in tennis is love. I finally get it. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
Years ago women of my size were considered royalty. View quote
Camryn Manheim
An estimated 7 million illegal immigrants were residing in the United States in January 2000. This is double the size of the illegal immigrant population in January 1990 and constitutes 2.5 percent of the total U.S. population of just over 281 million. View quote
Gary Miller
I am committed to strengthening our agricultural economy by protecting the unique interests of small and medium size family farms so that they can continue to operate. View quote
Sue Kelly
In fact, the legal system is in part responsible for their very size and growth. And too often when the individual finds himself in conflict with these forces, the legal system sides with the giant institution, not the small businessman or private citizen. View quote
Ted Kennedy
To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern. I do not suppose that Henry Ford would find much difficulty in running Andorra or Luxembourg on a socialistic basis. He has already more men on his pay-roll than their population. It is conceivable that a syndicate of Fords, if we could find them, would make Belgium Ltd. or Denmark Inc. pay their way. But while nationalization of certain industries is an obvious possibility in the largest of states, I find it no easier to picture a completely socialized British Empire or United States than an elephant turning somersaults or a hippopotamus jumping a hedge. View quote
J. B. S. Haldane
I am glad you encouraged me with the 'Stoke' [his painting 'Stoke-by-Nayland', circa 1835] What say you to a summer morning? July or August, at eight or nine o'clock, after a slight shower during the night, to enhance the dews in the shadowed part of the picture, under 'Hedge row elms and hillocks green.' Then the plough, cart, horse, gate, cows, donkey, &c. are all good paintable material for the foreground, and the size of the canvas sufficient to try one's strength, and keep one at full collar. View quote
John Constable
For I am the size of what I see not my height's size. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
All companies of any size have to continue to push to make sure you get the right leaders, the right team, the right people to be fast acting, and fast moving in the marketplace. We've got great leaders, and we continue to attract and promote great new leaders. (Steve Ballmer)
Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle. View quote
Epictetus
I'd like them to see that those things that set us apart or make us different can be wonderful contributions to the world around us. I'd like them to see that size and color are irrelevant to the dreams we envision for ourselves. And I'd also love for them to see that life is a journey, and every step of the way, we can learn something and become stronger and wiser. View quote
Gloria Estefan
The size of General Motors is in the service not of monopoly or the economies of scale but of planning. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death? View quote
Emil Cioran