Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation
Thomas Henry Huxley
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KARL PEARSON It's not the beef, Henry. It's the last 23 years!
SEX AND THE CITY If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
SYDNEY J. HARRIS We have not made commitments to make our territory and airspace available,
ISLAM KARIMOV It's not the size, but what's on the inside.
JOHNNIE CARR I used to think that size does not count, until I realized that most people either find other people...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA To make democracy work, we must be a nation of participants, not simply observers. One who does not ...
LOUIS L'AMOUR Whatever your territory is does not matter, what matters is the amount of time you are ready to inve...
SUNDAY ADELAJA If a nation does not plan her future, she is planning to fail
SUNDAY ADELAJA A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the onl...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Whatever punishment does to a nation it does not induce a sense of guilt
ANNE O'HARE MCCORMICK I would like Americans to make things with their hands. Thomas Jefferson and I feel that makes for a...
NICK OFFERMAN Our nation does not surrender to blackmail.
ALVIN HELLERSTEIN Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its al...
EDWIN HUBBEL CHAPIN Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its al...
EDWIN HUBBELL CHAPIN Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices.
BARRY DILLER Such prisons do not exist on Polish territory ... and there have not been any,
ALEKSANDER KWASNIEWSKI This is not uncharted territory. As much as we dislike it, we are not as alarmed. You are not going ...
GREGG LASKOSKI No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on the proper occasions."
Henry Ward Beecher
HENRY WARD BEECHER It's not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.
ARCHIE GRIFFEN I am not now, and never have been, a girl friend of Henry Kissinger
GLORIA STEINEM Loyalty to the country does not end with territory. Sometimes you are elsewhere, but your heart is r...
GRACE POE A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten
KEMAL ATATURK A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
KEMAL ATATURK One note does not make a symphony; one artist does not make an orchestra.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enab...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY It does not represent the Navajo Nation at this point.
GEORGE HARDEEN To kill him is a way of making politicians look tough. It does not make it right. It does not make a...
JESSE JACKSON Forgiveness does not mean forgetting. Forgiveness does not mean that the scars stopped hurting. They...
JOHN B. BEJO The map is not the territory.
UNKNOWN The map is not the territory.
ALFRED KORZYBSKI The map is not the territory.
LEMONY SNICKET Size matters not, ... Look at me. Judge me by size, do you?
YODA Ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
ALDOUS HUXLEY If imperialism is not banished from the country, China will perish as a nation. If China does not pe...
CHIANG KAI-SHEK We do not know if St. Thomas is on the list. Probably not. But who knows?
DENNIS DESROSIERS Cruelty does not make a person dishonest, the same way bravery does not make a person kind.
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ARISTOTLE I come from a place that likes grandeur; it likes large gestures; it is not inhibited by flourish; i...
DEREK WALCOTT Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.
JULIAN JAYNES Grandeur . . . consists in form, and not in size: and to the eye
of the philosopher, the curve dra...
CHARLES KINGSLEY Our goal is not to relocate refugees permanently onto U.S. territory,
KEN BACON Our goal is not to relocate refugees permanently onto U.S. territory.
KEN BACON We're in uncharted territory. I'm not sure anybody knows what to expect.
DAVID SYKUTA The point is that we're not going to cede any territory. We'll fight on as many fronts as we can wit...
KATHLEEN HARRINGTON Yes Im young,We Belong,Love Is Sung,By the peaceful Song...Listen Please, You'll fall to your knees,...
NOT YER TYPICAL DORK Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to...
MITT ROMNEY There is six billion reasons for everything to go wrong and only one to get it right
JULIO DAVILA We as a nation are not as oil dependant as we were back then.
CHRISTOPHER THORNBERG Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my...
YODA There is something about the size of the balls that is not making me comfortable. They aren't friend...
MAX MIRNYI It has not only the muscle but the size, the orchestra, the cast.
BRADLEY GREENWALD We're of a size and can do enough different things that we're not putting all our bets on one specif...
JOHN LAMATTINA You don't look at it as the size of the role. Quantity is not the point. You can be as thorough in 3...
WILLIAM HURT You want two posts that are close to the same size so they are not real lopsided.
DENNY BURK Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.
MICHELLE HODKIN There are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.
THOMAS A. EDISON Just because our brains are limited in size, does not mean our minds need be.
JEFFREY FRY Territory is but the body of a nation. The people who inhabit its hills and valleys are its soul, it...
JAMES A. GARFIELD What Huxley teaches...
NEIL POSTMAN A map is not the territory it represents, but, if correct, it has a similar structure to the territo...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Praying five times a day does not make a person religious, helping five people does. Saying grace be...
ABHIJIT NASKAR How are you expected to love life, if life does not love you in return.All we can do is clear away t...
GARY F EVANS... What is a Man / Woman who does not try and make the World Better?
'KINGDOM OF HEAVEN ' THE MOVIE One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of ha...
ARISTOTLE Huxley: "Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstei...
LEON URIS We all want to trust someone ,but we all think that what we see is real and the truth but if we trul...
GARY F EVANS... Money is not everything.
BEN OAK Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king,
JOSé SARAMAGO Just as the habit does not make the monk, the sceptre does not make the king.
JOSé SARAMAGO A habit does not a monk make.
FRANCOIS RABELAIS I don't have delusions of grandeur. We're not going to take the six-hour round to four hours just be...
ROB O'LOUGHLIN The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the nece...
EDMUND BURKE The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the nece...
GELETT BURGESS Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not whither thou goest; and how can we know the way? / Jesus sa...
BIBLE They are both solid runners. I don't know if Porter will play against us or not, but Thomas is a goo...
CHRIS PARDUE We have one of the best guard corps in the league, and BC's low post is the best in the league, if n...
FRANK HAITH Not an inch of our territory not a stone of our fortress.
JULES FAVRE We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sa...
NEIL POSTMAN A nation is great not by its size alone. It is the will, the cohesion, the stamina, the discipline o...
LEE KUAN YEW America is not merely a nation but a nation of nations.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benj...
ROBERT HORMATS There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force t...
WOODROW WILSON petty, vindictive and not very well-informed autocratic leader who is enamored of his own sense of g...
THAKSIN SHINAWATRA We have strengthened our mechanisms related to migration so that we make sure that the Mexican terri...
VICENTE FOX One day a small monkey was always getting ignored by the other monkeys ,so to get attention he said ...
GARY F EVANS... The world does not make fun of anybody. It also does not make fun of a nobody. But it makes fun of s...
APURVA GAGLANI One swallow does not make a summer,
neither does one fine day;
similarly one day or brief...
ARISTOTLE I’m not Thomas Jefferson. He was a pussy!
CHARLIE SHEEN One rain does not make a crop.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB One swallow does not make a summer.
ARISTOTLE One swallow does not make a summer
PROVERB Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
JANE WAGNER Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.
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THOMAS HUXLEY My business is to teach my aspirations to confirm themselves to fact, not to try and make facts harm...
THOMAS HUXLEY Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.
THOMAS HUXLEY The only question which any wise man can ask himself, and which any honest man will ask himself, is ...
THOMAS HUXLEY The medieval university looked backwards; it professed to be a storehouse of old knowledge. The mode...
THOMAS HUXLEY The most considerable difference I note among men is not in their readiness to fall into error, but ...
THOMAS HUXLEY The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an il...
THOMAS HUXLEY Economy does not lie in sparing money, but in spending it wisely.
THOMAS HUXLEY I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spec...
THOMAS HUXLEY History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as supe...
THOMAS HUXLEY It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions.
THOMAS HUXLEY If a man cannot do brain work without stimulants of any kind, he had better turn to hand work it is ...
THOMAS HUXLEY It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of makin...
THOMAS HUXLEY The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are b...
THOMAS H. HUXLEY It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental.
THOMAS H. HUXLEY