#larger

When I was larger, people said I was fat. Now that I've lost weight, they say I died. ↗

— Luther Vandross

#fat #i #larger #lost #now

No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#china #civil #civil rights #depression #directions

Small- and medium-sized companies do not know what we have to offer and that needs to be changed. We must react just as strenuously on their behalf as we do for larger companies. ↗

— Lawrence Eagleburger

#changed #companies #just #know #larger

Some types of environmental restoration projects are well-known; restored wetlands, for instance, or coal mine reclamation projects. Recently though, larger dam removal projects have started, a number of them in Washington state. ↗

— Matt Gonzalez

#dam #environmental #instance #larger #mine

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are. ↗

— Childe Hassam

#decidedly #easily #effort #exhibitions #large

By the immediate preservation of eggs for home consumption through the use of water glass or lime water, larger supplies of fresh eggs may be made available for marketing later in the season, when production is less and prices higher. ↗

— David F. Houston

#consumption #eggs #fresh #glass #higher

A national primary election would electrify the people and give them a larger stake in the outcome. ↗

— Leopoldo Lopez

#give #larger #national #outcome #people

I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject. ↗

— David Maraniss

#am #arc #beginning #book #carry

There's a lot of exaggerated talk about CAFTA, but it's actually a fairly routine trade agreement. Although it involves fairly small nations, they're still more important trade partners than places like Australia or many other larger nations. ↗

— Ernest Istook

#actually #agreement #all nations #although #australia

There is a small world of people who are very interested in contemporary art and a slightly bigger world of people who look at contemporary art. But then there is a much larger world that doesn't realise how influential art is on things that they actually look at. ↗

— Marc Jacobs

#art #bigger #contemporary #contemporary art #how