Quotes about Size

In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out of His overflowing grace.

[T]his country is bigger than Wall Street, and if they don't believe it, I show 'em the map.

The difference in men does not lie in the size of their hands, nor in the perfection of their bodies, but in this one sublime ability of concentration: to throw the weight with the blow, to live an eternity in an hour.

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other a horse still.

the whale would by all hands be considered a noble dish, were there not so much of him; but when you come to sit down before a meat-pie nearly one hundred feet long, it takes away your appetite.

I was astonished to learn in one of these best-selling books (on church life) that the size of my church parking lot had far more to do with how things fared in my congregation than my choice of texts in preaching. I was being lied to and I knew it.

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

Technology is only one reason that the energy industry can't change as quickly as the computer industry. There's also size. The energy industry is simply enormous—at around $5 trillion a year, one of the biggest businesses on the planet. Anything that big and complex will resist change.

Many dinosaurs were smaller than chickens.

Condoms seemed to her inherently wicked. But they were also inherently funny. They were like rubber gloves with only one finger, and every time she saw one she had to be severe with herself or she'd get the giggles, a terrifying thought because the man might think you were laughing at him, at his dick, at its size, and that would be fatal.

The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous." (VII)

Every society requires mutual accommodation and mutually agreeable temper; hence the larger it is, the duller.