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“I lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People see the log and call it a twig. They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop.”

People I Can Different Eye Water Arms Bigger Blow Lifts Because I Can Twigs

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“You turn up your music to hide the noise. Other people turn up their music to hide yours. You turn up yours again. Everyone buys a bigger stereo system. This is the arms race of sound. You don't win with a lot of treble.”

People Turns Winning Sound Race Arms Bigger Noise Lullaby Arms Race

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

“Make no mistake, the woman had a heart. She had a bigger one that people would think. There was a lot in it, stored up, high in miles of hidden shelving. Remember that she was the woman with the instrument strapped to her body in the long, moon-slit night.”

People Thinking Heart Long Body Remember Night Mistake Moon Bigger Instruments Miles Slits

Book:The Book Thief

Source: The Book Thief

“Wands are only as powerful as the wizards who use them. Some wizards just like to boast that theirs are bigger and better than other people's.”

People Use Powerful Bigger Boast Wizards Wands Bigger And Better

Author:J. K. Rowling

“There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?”

People Thinking World Looks Has Beens Said Two Truth Half Food Type Empty Bigger Glasses Excuse Beer Discworld Excuse Me Half Full Half Empty Glass Half Full Pinching

Author:Terry Pratchett

“So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound. My parents take life way to seriousely. I lke to make people laugh. I had a regular cartoon feature in the school news paper and created some for the year book. Social satire stuff. I've done a couple of political cartoons for wisteria's paper and just got one accepted in Easton's, which has a much bigger circulation. Impressed?”

“Rita folded her arms around herself and peered up at me. “If you’d asked me three months ago I’d have said you were hitting the bottle too hard. But then I got stabbed and should have died, but instead a bunch of cops and ambulance people showed up because somebody who wasn’t even there sent them on ahead to save my life. If something like that happens to someone like me, you start to have a little faith in something bigger. I don’t know if I believe in magic or miracles all the time. But I believe in you, Detective Walker. I believe in you.”

“Anarchy loves theatre. That's the whole point. People forget that. You have to laugh at the devil, not fight him. They'll always have more guns, they'll always have more bombs that go off with a bigger bang. No matter how revolting you become they'll always be willing to be more revolting to you. They've had so much more practice.”

People Matter Whole Fighting Forget Practice Laughing Willing Gun Devil Bigger Theatre Bombs Anarchy Bangs

Book:Smack

Source: Smack

“True character is revealedby the way people react to the bigger challenges in life.”

People Way Character Challenges Bigger Life Challenges True Character

Author:Alyson Noel

“Peope, especially unhappy people, want a cause. They want something to belong to, to be a part of something great and bigger, and to be led. It's easy to be a cog in a machine: you don't have to think, you have no responsibility. You're just following orders, doing as you're told.”

People Thinking Want Order Causes Easy Responsibility Machines Bigger Following Unhappy Want Something Cogs Unhappy People Following Orders

Author:Ilona Andrews

“Don't you know that there's another bubble as well An expectations bubble. Bigger houses private planes yachts ...... stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. But the expectations bubble will burst as well as all bubbles do. Come to my gallery and I will sell you beautiful things at a more reasonable price. But the point is that they will have value. Things of real beauty things of the spirit.”

People Knows Wells Real Beautiful Spirit Desire Values House Stupid Expectations Bigger Sells Planes Reasonable Bubbles Beautiful Things Salary Gallery Bonus Yacht Real Beauty

Author:Edward Rutherfurd

“You got to understand the god thing. It’s not magic. It’s about being you, but the you that people believe in. It’s about being the concentrated, magnified, essence of you. It’s about becoming thunder, or the power of a running horse, or wisdom. You take all the belief and become bigger, cooler, more than human. You crystallize.” He paused. “And then one day they forget about you, and they don’t believe in you, and they don’t sacrifice, and they don’t care, and the next thing you know you’re running a three-card monte game on the corner of Broadway and Forty-third.”

“Ghosts Take shape under moonlight, materialize in dreams. Shadows. Silhouettes of what is no more. But ghosts don't bother me. The day brings bigger things to worry about than flimsy remains of yesterday. No, spooks don't scare me. Gauzy apparitions might prank your psyche or agitate your nightmares, but lacking flesh and blood they are powerless to hurt you-cannot hope to inflict the kind of damage that real, live people do.”

Source: Perfect

“What is it that makes you want to write songs? In a way you want to stretch yourself into other people’s hearts. You want to plant yourself there, or at least get a resonance, where other people become a bigger instrument than the one you’re playing. It becomes almost an obsession to touch other people. To write a song that is remembered and taken to heart is a connection, a touching of bases. A thread that runs through all of us. A stab to the heart. Sometimes I think songwriting is about tightening the heartstrings as much as possible without bringing on a heart attack.”

People Thinking Way Want Writing Heart Sometimes Running Song Taken Connections Bases Bigger Instruments Plant Obsession Remembered Songwriting Touching Thread Resonance Heart Attack Heartstrings

Book:Life

Source: Life

“If you can channel the best part of you that is bigger than yourself, where it’s not about your ego and not about getting ahead, then you can have fun and you aren’t jealous of others. You see other people's talent as another branch of your own. You can keep it rooted in joy. Life is long and there are plenty of opportunities to make mistakes. The point of it all is to learn.”

People Ifs Long Life Is Joy Opportunity Fun Mistake Talent Ego Bigger Plenty Having Fun Branches Making Mistakes Jealous Rooted

Author:Ethan Hawke

“Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or lost. That's what I think prayer is all about. It doesn't matter which stories they believe in, they're all doing the same thing, kind of casting a line out to outer space, like there's something out there to connect to. It's like people make themselves part of something bigger that way, and maybe it makes them less afraid.”

People Thinking Way Believe Wells Kind Matter Stories Feelings Lost Fear Lines Prayer Space Lonely Bigger Casting Outer Space Lonely Feeling

Author:Craig Silvey

“Virginia," Billy said urgently. "Don't do this." "Shut up,Billy." "Think of the people in San Francisco." "I don't know any of the people in San Francisco," Virginia answered, then paused. "Well,actually I do,and I don't like them. But I do like you,Billy, and I'm not going to allow you to end up as lunch for some raggedy lion-monster-thingy." "A sphinx," Machiavelli corrected her. He was standing at the bars again. "Mistress Dare," the Italian said carefully. "I absolutely applaud you for what you want to do for your friend. But I urge you to think of the bigger picture.”

People Thinking Knows Want Wells Said Ends Like You Standing Bigger Dare What You Want Monsters Bars Urges Italian Lions Lunch Shut Up San Francisco Mistress Virginia Bigger Picture Sphinx

Author:Michael Scott

“I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever know when that moment was right, when expectation met anticipation and formed … connection?”

People Knows Moments Guy Mets Expectations Connections Bigger Lifetime Encounters That Moment Anticipation Bigger Picture

Book:Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

Source: Dash & Lily's Book of Dares

“Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that!”

“Idris: Are all people like this? The Doctor: Like what? Idris: So much bigger on the inside.”

People Doctors Bigger Doctor Who

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Now, I've always known that there were bullies in the world. We've seen a lot of it in politics lately as well as in daily life. You see it where people who may be stronger, or bigger, or better with verbiage than other folks... show off. To me, that's what bullying is, showing off. It's saying, I'm better than you, I can take you down. Not just physically, but emotionally.”

People World Wells May I Can Shows Known Bigger Stronger Folks Daily Life Bullying Bully Better Than You Showing Off

Author:Whoopi Goldberg

“Cause hearts are amazing things. They get lots bigger to make room for new people to love alongside the old people you love. -Simi”

People Heart Causes Rooms Bigger Old People Amazing Things

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“So often, we blame other people when, really, the problem is right down in here. I'm not happy. I don't know what's wrong. If I just had another job, I could be happy. If I just get married, I would be happy. Well if I just wasn't married, I would be happy. Well, if I just had some kids, I'll be happy. I'll be happy when these kids finally grow up and get out of here. If I had a bigger house, I would be happy. Well, I got a big house. Now if I just had a maid to clean, I'd be happy. Well, now if I just had a maid I could get along with better, I'd be happy.”

People Ifs Knows Wells Problem Bigs Would Be Kids Jobs Happiness House Grows Growing Up Married Bigger Blame Clean Maids Not Happy Big Houses

Author:Joyce Meyer

“It is a great thing if you can persuade people that they are somehow or other partakers in a mystery. It makes them feel bigger.”

People Ifs Feels Happiness Mystery Bigger Great Things

Book:An Inland Voyage: Stevenson's Vol. 20

Source: An Inland Voyage: Stevenson's Vol. 20

“The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing "God Bless America." No, no, no, God d*mn America, that's in the Bible for killing innocent people. God d*mn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God d*mn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.”

People Want Giving Humans Long Government America Law Three Citizens Drug Bigger Prison Killing Strikes Supreme Innocent Patriotism Bless Want U God Bless God Bless America Three Strikes

Author:Jeremiah Wright

“I think that one of the things that has changed the perception is that there are so many more single people. In New York City, it's 47 percent. When you have that many people who are single, they have a bigger voice and they're more willing to speak and say, 'We're not miserable, we're not sitting at home waiting for Mr. or Ms. Right, we're having a good time.' And I think single people have better friendships.”

“Honesty isn't enough for me. That becomes very boring. If you can convince people what you're doing is real and it's also bigger than life - that's exciting.”

People Ifs Real Enough Acting Honesty Bigger Exciting Boring Convince Best Acting Bigger Than Life

Author:Gene Hackman

“It is tempting to call for better leadership, but we probably expect too much from the leaders of the nations. Those nations are too big, the connections not strong enough, the commitment to the future not long enough. It is better to look smaller, to our now-smaller organisations, to local communities and cities, to families and clusters of friends, to small networks of portfolio people with time to give to something bigger than themselves. We have to fashion our own directions in our own places.”

Source: The Age of Paradox

“I would tell young people to start where they are with what they have and that the secret of a big success is starting with a small success and dreaming bigger and bigger dreams, I would tell them also that a young Black woman or a young Black man can't dream too much today or dare too much if he or she works hard, perseveres and dedicates themselves to excellence.”

People Ifs Men Hard Dream Bigs Today Success Young Black Secret Too Much Hard Work Commitment Bigger Excellence Starting Dare Black Women Persevere Small Successes Bigger Dreams

Author:John H. Johnson

“Discovering that with every child, your heart grows bigger and stronger - that there is no limit to how much or how many people you can love, even though at times you feel as though you could burst - you don't - you just love even more.”

People Feels Heart Children Grows Mom Limits Bigger Stronger Discovering Being A Mom

Author:Yasmin Le Bon

“Both class and race survive education, and neither should. What is education then? If it doesn't help a human being to recognize that humanity is humanity, what is it for? So you can make a bigger salary than other people?”

People Ifs Should Humans Helping Humanity Justice Human Beings Race Education Class Diversity Survival Bigger Social Justice Salary What Is Education

Author:Beah Richards

“You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.”

People Knows House Can Do Bigger Congratulations

Author:Lara Flynn Boyle

“I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.”

People Thinking Feelings Dream Able Felt Childhood Achieve Like You Drug Lonely Bigger Expected Alcohol Your Dreams Fitting Drugs And Alcohol Achieving Your Dreams Not Fitting

Author:Augusten Burroughs

“We believe - we believe that, if we tell the people the truth, that they will act bigger than the pettiness we see in Washington, D.C. We believe it is possible to forge bipartisan compromise, and stand up for our conservative principles.”

People Ifs Believe Principles Bigger Conservative Compromise Bipartisan Pettiness

Author:Chris Christie

“People want to be on a team. They want to be part of something bigger than themselves. They want to be in a situation where they feel that they are doing something for the greater good.”

“If people around you aren't going anywhere, if their dreams are no bigger than hanging out on the corner, or if they're dragging you down, get rid of them.”

People Ifs Dream Basketball Bigger Corners Hanging Out

Book:My life

Source: My life

“Poor people will do almost anything to avoid problems. They see a challenge and they run...the secret to success, my friends, is not to try to avoid or get rid of or shrink from your problems; the secret is to grow yourself so that you are bigger than your problems.”

People Inspirational Trying Problem Running Grows Challenges Poor Secret Friends My Friends Bigger Poor People Shrinks Secret To Success

Author:T. Harv Eker

“We all felt the majesty of the body. In a very short period of time we had seen something that was bigger than each of us. A lot of people, even those who were not religious, were reverent and attributed the success to God. As we saw the artificial heart beat in Dr. Clark, the feeling was not aren't we great, but aren't we small.”

People Heart God Feelings Body Success Felt Religious Saws Greatness Periods Beats Bigger Artificial Drs Science And Religion Majesty Heart Beat

Author:William DeVries

“Anyone who feels that they're in some way plugged into a meaningful, cosmic system is given a greater psychological balance as a result-whether or not they believe it contains a god-like figure at the control panels. Lots of people have this beneficial sense of being plugged into something bigger, even if they're not religious in the going-to-church-regularly sense.”

People Ifs Way Feels Believe Given Church Religious Results Greater Figures Balance Bigger Meaningful Psychological Cosmic Beneficial Agnosticism Going To Church

Book:Families and how to survive them

Source: Families and how to survive them

“One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.”

People Has Beens Bigs Kids Jobs Individual Felt Economy Media Concern Bigger Everyday Worried Discourse Insecure Big Changes

Author:Nick Clegg

“People say that, but I think the NBA was bigger than Larry Bird and Magic Johnson.”

People Thinking Magic Basketball Bird Bigger Nba Johnson Larry

Author:Oscar Robertson

“I think most of the people, once you see a Kiss show, you kinda get spoiled because I don't think there's anybody out there that's doing a bigger or a better show than us.”

People Thinking Shows Kissing Bigger Spoiled Kiss Me

Author:Ace Frehley

“Gymnasts, lazy people, complainers and successful people have all practiced to be what they are good at. So if you keep practicing being lazy, you will be lazy. If you keep practicing complaining, you will constantly complain. If you practice compassion, generosity, patience, working hard and having a bigger vision, you will become better at it with time because you will create the causes to become better. You are practicing to become better.”

People Ifs Hard Inspiration Causes Compassion Vision Practice Successful Bigger Complaining Buddhist Generosity Lazy Successful People Gymnast Complainers Lazy People Being Lazy

Author:Tsem Tulku

“I enjoy being me; I always have done. I've seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and it wears them down. And I don't want that in my life. It's never been an issue - at least, I've never hung out with the sort of horrible people who would make it an issue. I have insecurities, of course, but I don't hang out with anyone who points them out to me.”

People Knows Want Done Courses Enjoy Powerful Issues Bigger Down And Horrible Insecurity Hanging Out Hung Being Me

Author:Adele

“I saw one of my primary tasks was to do what I could to restore confidence, to ensure that people knew and cared about their predicament and that governments were committed to helping. Equally an optimism had to be engendered, a belief that not only would they recover but would emerge 'bigger, brighter and better than ever.'”

People Helping Government Belief Leadership Saws Tasks Optimism Bigger Committed Primaries Brighter Predicaments

Author:Peter Cosgrove

“Images of people, cities, and landscapes from the air tell a unique story about our personal space and how we relate to one another. I've always aimed to address the bigger picture and later trends. In many ways, what a photographer does is give others a chance to step back and look at their world and gain perspective on where we stand, and what that means.”

“Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change - from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.”

People Literature Successful Greater Bigger Crisis Successful People Time For A Change

Author:Edwin Louis Cole

“Social obligation is much bigger than supporting worthy causes. It includes anything that impacts people and the quality of their lives .”

People Social Causes Inspiring Quality Bigger Impact Worthy Obligation Worthy Causes Social Obligation

Author:Bill Ford

“We singer-songwriter people, we're used to getting up and doing our own thing in front of people, and we're it. We're the band, artist, writer, producer, front man. We're the whole thing. You develop, it's not smugness, but this self-reliance, that can limit your creativity. When you're willing and able to invite others into it, you wind up getting a piece of work that's bigger and better than anything you ever imagined it could be.”

“The problem is that white people see racism as conscious hate, when racism is bigger than that. Racism is a complex system of social and political levers and pulleys set up generations ago to continue working on the behalf of whites at other people's expense, whether whites know/like it or not. Racism is an insidious cultural disease. It is so insidious that it doesn't care if you are a white person who likes Black people; it's still going to find a way to infect how you deal with people who don't look like you.”

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