Browsing Topic Best Size Quotes

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.

Making fun of anyone’s size, height, scarring, anything like that equals dumb.

Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state…. To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled.

Women have fought so long and hard for our rights and equality, and now all our attention is put on being a size 0.

It’s not the size of the nose that matters, it’s what’s inside that counts.

In shape they were like horrible toads, and moved in a succession of springs, but in size they were of an incredible bulk, larger than the largest elephant. We had never before seen them save at night, and indeed they are nocturnal animals save when disturbed in their lairs, as these had been. We now stood amazed at the sight, for their blotched and warty skins were of a curious fish-like iridescence, and the sunlight struck them with an ever-varying rainbow bloom as they moved.

Nature’s kind of clever, because it figured out millions of years ago that if you grow these fibers below a critical size, even if you have flaws in the material, it doesn’t affect the strength.

Comparing yourself to the people like you, comparing yourself to the people who aren’t like you, looking at how many records you’ve sold, looking at the venue size you’re selling out. None of that can even remotely measure how happy you are.

Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios.

Judge me by my size, do you?

Everything that you receive is not measured according to its actual size, but, rather that of the receiving vessel.

I really did not think much about the size of the transfer fee when I left Barcelona because it was all down to market forces, not me.

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.

Humanity is facing a very big, slow, long, drawn-out threat, and that is to do with the way the weather is changing and the size of the population.

I have an ego the size of a small planet.

I firmly believe that IBM’s size can be used to its advantage.

A cat is better than you are, more honest, more graceful, smarter for her size, better coordinated, and infinitely more beautiful.

Very few species have survived unchanged. There’s one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it’s survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can’t accuse human beings of that.

With success comes more responsibility, a larger size of existence, which is uncomfortable.

At 2 per cent growth a year, an economy doubles in size in just thirty years.

Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat

It’s not the size of the ship; it’s the size of the waves.

I was always trying to make up for my size, to compensate. So to get people to take you seriously, you have to come at things with a great deal of strength. You have to emphasize that the way you are is unusual. That you don’t come along every day.

Beauty is not defined by the size of your jeans.

Just because I squeezed my gigantic bottom into men’s trousers, you needn’t assume my brains have shrunk to masculine size.

I’m misrepresented as a scary person. I’m not. It’s all about my size and my eyebrows.

When you’re somebody who has the pretension to make art, it’s completely different from when someone else says I want to make a book of your art. You don’t decide the title, you don’t decide the size, the order of the photographs . . . so it’s completely out of control!

Size without shape is grotesque.

The important thing is not the size of your faith – it is the One behind your faith – God Himself.

…there is no absolute scale of size in nature, and the small may be as important, or more so than the great.

It’s not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.

The Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov once said: In a Democracy, portraits of a nation’s leader should never exceed the size of a postage stamp. That won’t happen so quickly in Russia.

For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.