A Quote by Lord Dunsany

A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.

Lord Dunsany

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Full Large Man Night Small Thing Very Wonders

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Lord Dunsany
Irish - Writer
July 24, 1878 - 1957

Do not be afraid of large patterns, if properly designed they are more restful to the eye than small ones: on the whole, a pattern where the structure is large and the details much broken up is the most useful...very small rooms, as well as very large ones, look better ornamented with large patterns.

William Morris

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

George R. R. Martin

To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding of the universe. You were right when you said you felt small, looking up at all that up there. We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.

Stephen Hawking

Last but not least, I would say you should have big dreams, full dreams, not half dreams. You know, it's very simple. You can't put a large box in a small box. Well, you cannot put a full life in a small dream box.

Elias Zerhouni

Breaking up is the hardest thing we do. It's the most important thing we do, in a way. You've got to embrace rejection, or you'll maintain a very limited life. It'll be very nice and neat - and very, very small.

Laurie Helgoe

The frontiers of science, on the very small scale and very large scale, require large investments and international effort.

Dan Shechtman

Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow. Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I'd feel sad about it. I will take that as high praise.

George R. R. Martin

Power resides only where men believe it resides. [...] A shadow on the wall, yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

George R. R. Martin

Art and literature need extreme sociality to a degree that even dolphins don't have. We are the only large mammalian species that has such intense sociality. There are some small mammals that have become eusocial - the mole rats - but that's a different thing. Humans are able to understand one another at very high levels, to cooperate in very large groups. Humans depend on one another in ways that are an absolute precondition to sharing the kinds of information that makes narrative possible.

Brian Boyd

When you are an actor you are a very small part of a very large scheme of things.

Dia Mirza

Forsake search for needles that are so very small in haystacks that are so very large.

Paul Samuelson

I live in a very small house, but my windows look out on a very large world.

Confucius

No matter where you are on politics, I think it is wonderful to see candidates funding campaigns not by talking to a very small number of very rich people, but by reaching out to a very large number of citizens.