Quotes on Bigs

We got hooked on grain-fed meat just as we got hooked on gas guzzling automobiles. Big cars made sense only when oil was cheap; grain-fed meat makes sense only because the true costs of producing it are not counted.

We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.

One day we'll all find out that all of our songs was just little notes in a great big song!

In terms of playing ability there is nothing to choose between number one and 100. Instead, it's a question of who believes and who wants it more? Which player is mentally stronger? Which player is going to fight the hardest in the big points? These are the things that determine who is the champion.

The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.

I am woman, hear me roar, in numbers too big to ignore, and I know too much to go back and pretend.

Is your company so small you have to do everything for yourself? Wait until you're so big that you can't. That's worse.

I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me.

Every present state of a simple substance is the natural consequence of its preceding state, in such a way that its present is big with its future.

To treat a big subject in the intensely summarized fashion demanded by an evening's traffic of the stage when the evening, freely clipped at each end, is reduced to two hours and a half, is a feat of which the difficulty looms large.

Imagine the week ahead unfolding in an ever-increasing flow of miracles. Allow the image to sink into your heart. Receive it with a big yes!

I've learned it's always better to have a small percentage of a big success, than a hundred percent of nothing.

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left.

I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life's luggage.

The big bang, the most cataclysmic event we can imagine, on closer inspection appears finely orchestrated.

They say you forget your troubles on a trout stream, but that's not quite it. What happens is that you begin to see where your troubles fit into the grand scheme of things, and suddenly they're just not such a big deal anymore.

Set a goal to achieve something that is so big, so exhilarating that it excites you and scares you at the same time.

I feel this pang of regret whenever I watch sport; this sense that I will never play a big match again.

The real development I've seen of people in organizations, especially in big ones, comes from their being volunteers in a nonprofit organization - where you have responsibility, you see results, and you quickly learn what your values are. There is no better way to understand your strengths and discover where you belong than to volunteer in a nonprofit. That is probably the great opportunity for the social sector - and especially in its relationship to business.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don't want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

The thing is, 'Discworld' had been going on for a very long time, and I've written children's books as well. Usually when people have a really big series they franchise it, which I thought is a bit of a no-no, so I thought what I'd do is I'd franchise it to myself.