A Quote by Don DeLillo

Longing on a large scale makes history.

Don DeLillo

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History Large Large Scale Longing Makes Scale

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Don DeLillo
American - Novelist
Born: November 20, 1936

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

Dan Shechtman

History is neither more nor less than biography on a large scale.

Alphonse de Lamartine

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions.

Bill Vaughan

Evolution on the large scale unfolds, like much of human history, as a succession of dynasties.

Edmund Beecher Wilson

America's development began with a large-scale ethnic cleansing, unprecedented in human history.

Vladimir Putin

The observation that money changes induce output changes in the same direction receives confirmation in some data sets but is hard to see in others. Large-scale reductions in money growth can be associated with large-scale depressions or, if carried out in the form of a credible reform, with no depression at all.

Robert Lucas, Jr.

Everything that can be found in the universe on a large scale is reflected in a human being on a small scale.

Franz Bardon

The effect of boredom on a large scale in history is underestimated. It is a main cause of revolutions, and would soon bring to an end all the static Utopias and the farmyard civilization of the Fabians.

William Ralph Inge

Large-scale public projects require the agreement of large numbers of people.

Thom Mayne

In the charitable world, I find myself giving to large projects that I think can make a large-scale impact.

Stephen A. Schwarzman

Moreover, it is so important that people have the opportunity to share their stories and have them documented. There have been large-scale oral history projects after many events, from September 11th to Hurricane Katrina. Many oral history projects are much more confined, but equally valuable. We can learn about different working conditions, living conditions, trauma experiences and much more through oral history.

Patricia Leavy

What happened in Snowtown was repeated many times in history, in a big scale and a small scale.

Justin Kurzel

... placing economic activity in the context of the whole earth requires attention to the question of scale. Bigger is obviously not better, so the optimum scale of human economy in relation to the total economy becomes basically a question of sustainability. When the effects of the economy on the environment undercut the possibility of its own continuance, the scale is too large.

John B. Cobb

The cost of building large airships can be prohibitive. The entry barrier is considerable and could be a show-stopper for large-scale projects.

Jens Martin Skibsted

Given the scale of the ecological crisis we are facing this is the appropriate scale of expansion. Occupying the streets to bring about change as our ancestors have done before us. Only this kind of large-scale economic disruption can rapidly bring the government to the table to discuss our demands. We are prepared to risk it all for our futures.

Gail Bradbrook

I realized that the longing for art, like the longing for love, is a malady that blinds us, and makes us forget the things we already know, obscuring reality.

Orhan Pamuk

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