Best 411 quotes in «size quotes» category

The fuses had been lit and could not be extinguished. All that remained was to observe the speed of the spark, and the size of the explosions.

The gardener had a dread of small women; he'd always imagined them to have an anger disproportionate to their size.

The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.

The horror of the Twentieth Century was the size of each new event, and the paucity of its reverberation.

The human population can no longer be allowed to grow in the same old uncontrollable way. If we do not take charge of our population size, then nature will do it for us and it is the poor people of the world who will suffer most

The ignorant man is an ox. He grows in size, not in wisdom.

The limiting factor on your success is not the size of the obstacles, but the size of your dream.

The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.

[The Internal Revenue Code is] about 10 times the size of the Bible and, unlike the Bible, contains no good news

The left can't wait to condemn this country. The left can't wait to tell stories of how we have, I don't know, just made messes of things, as their justification for chopping us down to size and for disqualifying us superpower status. We haven't earned it. We've built our nation on the backs of slaves and other discrimination and so forth.

The mystery of the universe is not time but size.

The measure of biblical truth that we have grasped is not determined by the size of our heads, but the breadth of our hearts.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.

There are 60 million of us [britains] crammed into an area the size of a state. So you don't have that feeling of remoteness at all, ever. And that's reflected in the way our media works, and so on.

The only time this happened to me before was in Jil Sander in Berlin where they said, "We have nothing that will fit you." I said, "Yes, you do." And I found something great. This happens to me in Paris again and again and again. They don't carry anything over size 40 which is nothing, because I wear a size 42 or 44 but that's hard to find in Paris among the designer clothes. All stores are like that.

The pressure gets worse the older you get. The hole starts to look the size of a Bayer aspirin.

The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000.... The size of this figure is truly staggering, since there are only supposed to be approximately 10 electrons in the whole universe!

The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

There are brands out there, plus-size brands, that all they want to do is sell their clothes and be done.

There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.

There's all body types, but there's just one size.

There is not one standard definition of beauty or one perfect size.

There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.

There's 67 percent of women that are in this plus-size world that we live in. And that's over half of the women in the world. So why are we not dressing for [them]?

There's a feeling that strength is determined by the size of a union. That clearly is nonsense.

There was a code, and though it was mostly unspoken, I absorbed it early on. You always put all the trout back in the water alive except for a few to eat. You didn't count your trout or call attention to their size or weight. You took time to watch and enjoy seeing your partners catch trout.

There's no such thing as a standard size movie star, or woman for that matter.

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.

The right way to deal with healthcare reform is not to have a one-size-fits-all plan that's imposed on all the states, but recognizing the differences between different states' populations, states should be able to craft their own plans to get all their citizens insured, and to make sure that preexisting conditions are covered.

The sand should be neither coarse nor fine but of a middling quality or about the size of the common pop(p)y seed. If the sand is too coarse the mortar will be short or brittle . . . If the sand is too fine the cement will shrink and crack after it has been used.

The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons.

The size of the promised paycheck is inversely proportional to the likelihood of surviving to collect it.

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

The size of your body is just right. The only question is whether you're big enough inside.

The size of the halls doesn't matter to me too much

The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.

The trouble with bucket seats is that not everybody has the same size bucket.

The tax code is 10 times the size of the Bible with none of the good news.

To be sure, American higher education is a diverse ecosystem, comprising institutions of all sizes, price tags, and mission statements.

The whole size zero debate is disgusting. My sister, who's 13, looks amazing - but she's already worried about her figure.

The worst thing the federal government could do is to increase the size, reach and cost of government. If government failed in its response to the hurricane, the answer is not more inefficient government.

Today, 'fat' has become not a description of size but a moral category tainted with criticism and contempt.

The Vietnam war was fought over portion size.

They call me Ricky Fatton. Mind you I've had a lot on my plate recently. I got measured for this suit the other week. They measured my pants, jacket, top to bottom. Bloody hell Ricky you're a Mark F they said, a size up from a marquee.

• This seems impossible to me. It seems biologically impossible to stay the same size, although I must. It seems one must always be either bigger or smaller than they were at some arbitrary point in time to which all things are compared. The panties that are possibly tighter than they were. When? You can't say when. But you are absolutely positive no question that it's true.

To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company.

To me, I always felt like I was carrying a torch for women of any size to be themselves - it doesn't matter whether you're a size 2 or a 22, just be who you are.

To Trin Tragula's horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.

Toward the end of my pregnancy, I felt really big - I gained about 40 pounds, which is a lot for my size.