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“We are shrinking the size of the federal government as a percent of our economy from over 21 percent of the economy to 19 percent of the economy. At the same time, we're growing the private economy.”

Government Economy Growing Percent Size Federal Government Shrinking

Author:Franklin Raines

“And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.”

People Ifs Years Problem Energy Grows Company Cases Worry Economy Growing Size Customers Billions Integrating

Author:Kevin B. Rollins

“Religious liberty in a nation is as real as the liberty of its least popular religious minority. Look not to the size of cathedrals or even to the words on the statute books for proof of the reality of religious freedom. Ask what is the fate of the Protestant in Spain, the Jew in Saudi Arabia, the Arab in Israel, the Catholic in Poland or the atheist in the United States.”

“Some of us are sixty feet long with a brain the size of a walnut.”

Long Brain Feet Atheism Size Positive Atheism Sixty Walnuts

Author:William S. Burroughs

“I'm shooting in Brooklyn, we've got all kinds of crap going on, and I'm all alone now in a big hotel suite that you can't believe the size of it and a thing sticks in my foot and I just think it's the funniest thing that's ever happened to me.”

Thinking Believe Kind Bigs Funny Happened Feet Sticks Size All Kinds Shooting Hotel Crap Brooklyn All Alone

Author:Danny DeVito

“A golf ball is white, dimpled like a bishop's knees, and is the size of small mandarin oranges or those huge pills which vets blow down the throats of constipated cart-horses.”

White Huge Balls Horse Golf Size Blow Knees Throat Orange Pills Bishops Carts Vets Golf Ball

Author:Frank Muir

“In a fight against Juggernaut and Cassidy in their spacious castle basement, Cassidy mentions the word 'tomb' to the X-Men. That's all it took to send Storm into a claustrophobic fit that leaves her in a heap on the floor for three straight issues. Imagine if he would have said 'Small Closet' or 'Size 2 Jeans.'”

Ifs Men Said Fighting Three Issues Imagine Fit Size Storm Closets Jeans Castles Tombs Basements X Men Juggernaut Kryptonite

Author:Seanbaby

“With the counseling of my family doctor, my mother ended up turning to Weight Watchers and their children's program. I went to weekly meetings, got counseling and would exercise with my peers who were my size. It was the first time I saw a proper children's portion size, and it wasn't two burgers, it was one.”

Firsts Children Two Mother Saws Exercise First Time Program My Family Doctors Weight Meetings Size Portions Peers Counseling Burgers Watchers Weight Watchers Portion Sizes

Author:Ginnifer Goodwin

“There are always late bloomers [in sport], no matter size, although big men are more often late bloomers.”

Men Matter Bigs Sports Late Size

Author:Michael Wilbon

“My preference is live performance. Because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that. You know, musicians need it, comedians definitely need it. It doesn't matter what size and what club, whether it's 30 people in the club or 2,000 in a hall or a theater. It's live, it's symbiotic, you need it.”

People Thinking Knows Needs Matter Actors Energy Musician Performances Theater Size Clubs Comedian Halls Preference Feedback Live Performance Live Theater

Author:Robin Williams

“If Pizza sizes were given in area not diameter, you'd see instantly that a 7 inch is less than half the size of a 10 inch pie”

Ifs Given Half Areas Size Inches Pie Pizza

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“A state is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and disestablish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate personal habits, and to censor opinions. The modern state claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and Democrats.”

Source: A Preface to Morals

“Whenever you complete a task of any size or importance, you feel a surge of energy, enthusiasm, and self-esteem. The more important the completed task, the happier, more confident, and more powerful you feel about yourself and your world.”

World Feels Important Self Energy Powerful Self Esteem Tasks Importance Size Esteem Enthusiasm About Yourself

Book:Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

Source: Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time

“The entire North Polar ice cap is disappearing before our very eyes. It's been the size of the continental United States for the last 3 million years and now 40 percent is gone and the rest of it is going.”

Years States Eye Lasts United Millions United States Gone Percent Size Disappear Ice Caps Gore Continental

Author:Al Gore

“The tears that fall from the eyes of a truthful Believer, out of the fear of the Lord, and, then, roll down his face, however little they are, even of the size of a fly [i.e. just one drop], shall prevent the Fire of Hell from touching his face.”

Littles Eye Faces Fall Lord Hell Fire Tears Size Believer Just One Touching Truthful

Author:Ibn Majah

“The ability to fight isnt a one-size fits all; everybody is different.”

Different Fighting Ability Fit Size One Size Fits All

Author:Melissa McBride

“Toughness has nothing to do with size, physical strength or athleticism. Toughness is A SKILL that can be developed & improved.”

Skills Size Toughness Physical Strength Athleticism

Author:Jay Bilas

“Wipeout is a giant obstacle course for adults of all shapes, sizes, and ages. Whoever wins takes home $50,000 and gets to brag to all of their coworkers that they made it out alive!”

Made Home Age Courses Winning Alive Shapes Adults Size Obstacles Made It Giants Brag Coworker

Author:Jill Wagner

“Height isn't something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.”

People Ifs Needs Feels Ideas Use Body Might Girl Nice Example Particular Hair Basketball Size Teeth Weather Height Observing Playing Basketball Curly Hair Nice Teeth

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.”

People Mind Wells Would Be Hell Food Eating Cooking Average Size Likes Japan Serving Bent Suitable Supplements Cuisine Fries Japanese Food French Fries Hostesses

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“In the South Pacific, because of their size, mosquitoes are required to file flight plans.”

Plans South Size Flight Files Pacific Mosquitoes

Author:Erma Bombeck

“New Orleans is the only city in the world you go in to buy a pair of nylon stockings they want to know your head size.”

Knows World Want Cities Size Pairs New Orleans Stockings Cities In The World Nylon

Author:Billie Holiday

“We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity.”

Two Together Accepting Greater Bigger Size Prosperity Efficiency

Book:My Days

Source: My Days

“Everything has got its right size. When it is its right size and well run it's the tops.”

Wells Running Size

Book:agatha christie

Source: agatha christie

“there is practically no difference at all between a family and a nation, except the difference in size. A family is a nation seen through the wrong end of a telescope; a nation is a family seen through the right end of a telescope, and I don't believe it is possible to achieve a happy and successful family life, or a happy and successful national life, unless we bear this simple fact in mind and behave accordingly.”

Mind Believe Ends Facts Nations Differences Simple Family Successful Achieve Bears Don't Believe Size Behave Family Life Telescopes

Book:A pocketful of pebbles

Source: A pocketful of pebbles

“We can't equate spending on veterans with spending on defense. Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.”

“The World's a Printing-House, our words, our thoughts, Our deeds, are characters of several sizes. Each soul is a Compos'tor, of whose faults The Levites are Correctors; Heaven Revises. Death is the common Press, from whence being driven, We're gather'd, Sheet by Sheet, and bound for Heaven.”

World Soul Character House Heaven Common Presses Faults Bounds Size Deeds Driven Our Thoughts Sheets Printing Our Words

Author:Francis Quarles

“Here in Florida, we have something special we never enjoyed at Disneyland: the blessing of size. There's enough land here to hold all of the ideas and plans we can possibly imagine.”

Ideas Enough Imagine Plans Land Special Blessing Size Enjoyed Florida Something Special Disneyland Epcot

Author:Walt Disney

“Nicknames are potent ways of cutting people down to size.”

People Way Names Cutting Size Nicknames

Book:Under My Skin

Source: Under My Skin

“[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.”

Believe Imagine Ocean Method Size Range Sensible Imagine That Smooth Shrinks Jane Harmonious Mills Ponds Austen Atlantic Ocean

Book:The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews

Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews

“The more flexible an economy, the greater its ability to self-correct in response to inevitable, often unanticipated, disturbances and thus to contain the size and consequences of cyclical imbalances.”

Self Ability Economy Greater Consequence Response Size Inevitable Flexible Disturbance Imbalance

Author:Alan Greenspan

“While local economies may experience significant price imbalances, a national severe price distortion seems most unlikely in the United States, given its size and diversity.”

May States Seems Given United United States Economy Diversity Size Significant Locals Severe Unlikely Distortion Imbalance

Author:Alan Greenspan

“The knife flaying the elephant does not have to be large, only sharp!”

Doe Size Knives Elephants

Book:Wraiths of Time

Source: Wraiths of Time

“Ireland is not at all a simple place, and in many ways it is spare and sad. It has no wealth, no power, no stability, no influence, no fashion, no size. Its only real arts are song and drama and poem. But Limerick alone has two thousand ruined castles and surely that many practicing poets.”

Way Art Two Real Song Wealth Simple Influence Fashion Poet Drama Thousand Size Stability Ireland Spares Ruined Castles Limerick

Book:The feminine eye

Source: The feminine eye

“Throughout their lives, women try to pummel their bodies into some phantom ideal shape that exists only with a lot of airbrushing. ... I don't blame men for this. Men seem to go for us no matter what size and shape we are. I blame capitalism. No, really. The consumer must constantly be in a state of anxious low self-esteem so that she will constantly buy lipsticks and girdles to make her feel cuter.”

“I don't think it is always necessary to take up the anti-colonial -- or is it post-colonial? -- cudgels against English. What seems to me to be happening is that those people who were once colonized by the language are now rapidly remaking it, domesticating it, becoming more and more relaxed about the way they use it -- assisted by the English language's enormous flexibility and size, they are carving out large territories for themselves within its frontiers.”

People Thinking Way Use Seems Language Becoming Happenings Size Enormous Posts Territory Relaxed Flexibility English Language Frontiers Becoming More Carving

Author:Salman Rushdie

“England, a happy land we know, Where follies naturally grow, Where without culture they arise, And tow'r above the common size.”

Knows Culture Grows Common Land England Size Arise Folly Tow

Book:Poems: By Charles Churchill. In Three Volumes. With Large Corrections and Additions. To which is Added, the Life of the Author. Adorned with Cuts

Source: Poems: By Charles Churchill. In Three Volumes. With Large Corrections and Additions. To which is Added, the Life of the Author. Adorned with Cuts

“I know animals more gallant than the African warthog, but none more courageous. He is the peasant of the plains - the drab and dowdy digger in the earth. He is the uncomely but intrepid defender of family, home, and bourgeois convention, and he will fight anything of any size that intrudes upon his smug existence. ... His eyes are small and lightless and capable of but one expression - suspicion. What he does not understand, he suspects, and what he suspects, he fights.”

Knows Doe Home Eye Earth Fighting Animal Existence Expression Capable Size His Eyes Courageous Suspects Conventions Suspicion Peasants Bourgeois Defenders Gallant Family Home

Book:West with the Night

Source: West with the Night

“With my size and speed, my ability to make moves and great vision, I'm sometimes feel like it's an unfair advantage over the defense.”

Feels Sometimes Moving Ability Vision Advantage Size Speed Defense Nfl Unfair Great Vision Make A Move Unfair Advantage

Author:LaDainian Tomlinson

“It's a little like packing for a trip. First you lay out everything that might possibly be useful, with no thought about the size of your suitcase. Then, look at your suitcase. In the case of narrative, there's a certain obligation to keep the pace up and have each section or subsection be doing something.”

Firsts Looks Littles Might Certain Cases Lays Size Obligation Narrative Pace Sections Suitcases Packing

Author:George Saunders

“You gotta be the right size, height, speed - all those are a big factor in what position you play. If you love the game, play the position you love. Some positions get paid more, but at the end of the day you gotta play the game you love.”

Ifs Ends Play Bigs Games Position Paid Size Speed Factors Height The End Of The Day

Author:LeSean McCoy

“I'm definitely not a muscle builder or a guy that's interested in being a muscle builder. It feels good to get back down to a normal size. Not like a hipster size or a buff-guy size, but just a normal, 34-waist guy.”

Feels Guy Normal Size Feel Good Muscles Get Back Builder Hipster

Author:Anthony Mackie

“I always train heavy and it worked well for me. I always train heavy and put on size for a competition. Most people would be worried about an injury but if you're gonna worry about it so much, it's gonna happen anyway.”

People Ifs Wells Happens Would Be Worry Competition Train Size Heavy Worried Injury

Author:Ronnie Coleman

“I've never competed in powerlifting. But my goals weren't to be a powerlifter. My goals were to pack on size and get big, big, big.”

Bigs Goal Size Packs

Author:Kai Greene

“I've got a telescope in my garden and one of the things I love to do is go out and let the sky, the night sky, the galaxies, the Orion nebula, have an impact on my mind. I find that awe inspiring. And just to contemplate on what the astronomers have revealed to us about the immense size and so on of the universe. I find that very healthy. And it's a good thing to do.”

Mind Night Universe Sky Healthy Garden Impact Good Things Size Things To Do Awe Contemplating Immense Galaxy Night Sky Telescopes Things I Love Astronomers Awe Inspiring Orion Nebula

Author:John Lennox

“You have to be yourself, as models come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. There are girls out there who are more voluptuous and they work better for different sorts of stories.”

Different Stories Girl Shapes Models Size Being Yourself Voluptuous

Author:Kate Moss

“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!”

“There is a spirit of resistance implanted by the Deity in the breast of man, proportioned to the size of the wrongs he is destined to endure.”

Men Spirit Endure Size Resistance Breasts Resentment Destined Deities

Author:Charles James Fox

“When you buy a jacket, you pick the size to ensure it fits. Similarly, we live in a universe in which the amount of dark energy fits our biological make-up. If the amount of dark energy were substantially different from what we've measured, the environmental conditions would be inhospitable to our form of life.”

Ifs Different Would Be Form Universe Energy Dark Conditions Amount Fit Picks Environmental Size Jackets Dark Energy

Author:Brian Greene

“All through my life I never did believe in human measurement. Numbers, time, inches, feet. All are just ploys for cutting nature down to size. I know the grand scheme of the world is beyond our brains to fathom, so I don't try, just let it in.”

Knows World Trying Believe Humans Numbers Brain Cutting Feet Size Inches Schemes Measurement Fathom Ploy

Book:Love Medicine

Source: Love Medicine