#enormous

I came here as a practical man, to talk, not simply on the question of peace and war, but to treat another question which is of hardly less importance - the enormous and burdensome standing armaments which it is the practice of modern Governments to sustain in time of peace. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#armaments #burdensome #came #enormous #governments

Anybody who has stood on the prairie in North Dakota has felt the force of the wind and knows that our state has an inexhaustible supply of wind power. The potential here to create jobs and draw millions of dollars in new investment to North Dakota is enormous. ↗

— Kent Conrad

#create #dakota #dollars #draw #enormous

Scientists are really very conscious of the fact that they stand on the shoulders of an enormous tree of preceding workers and that their own contribution is not so enormous. ↗

— Martin Fleischmann

#contribution #enormous #fact #own #preceding

Revolutions demand enormous sacrifices and, at the same time, create a new need to change the world again. ↗

— Friedrich Durrenmatt

#change #change the world #create #demand #enormous

Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert. ↗

— Robert Fripp

#accepts #attending #audience #comes #concert

It's always amusing to look at how something early in the 20th century was written in anthropology and how it's written now. There's been an enormous shift in how it's done, but yet you can't put your finger on someone who actually did it. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#actually #always #amusing #anthropology #been

If you're doing a large, complicated character with radio controls, it might take a number of people several months to make it and if you're talking about a quick little hand puppet, it could be made in 2 days, so there's enormous range there, and no real easy generalities. ↗

— Jim Henson

#character #complicated #controls #could #days

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate. ↗

— Alexis Herman

#african #african americans #any #anyone #breach

In America today, if your sensibilities are offended by something that has happened, you get an enormous amount of credibility and are taken very seriously. ↗

— Brit Hume

#amount #credibility #enormous #get #happened

I'm an enormous fan of Ron Howard. I mean, he's the most extraordinary director. ↗

— Georgina Chapman

#enormous #extraordinary #fan #howard #i