"Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat"

-- Lionel Shriver

#Size Quotes #Fats Quotes #Relative Quotes

“Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.”
“All about us the sense of disenchantment with technology appears to be growing. No one ... can ignore the fall of the engineer from the dizzying heights he once occupied... . with the coming of the environmental crisis, our relationship to society has changed. We cannot ... pretend that ... a hundred space spectaculars can restore things to what they were.”
“You didn't create yourself, so there is no way you can tell yourself what you were created for.”
“Life is a zoo in a jungle.”

Source : Peter De Vries (2014). “The Vale of Laughter: A Novel”, p.86, Open Road Media
“The highlight of my baseball career came in Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium when I saw a fan fall out of the upper deck. When he got up and walked away, the crowd booed.”

Source : "OPEN SEASON / Uecker left mark on scouting reports" by Tom FitzGerald, www.sfgate.com. March 14, 2003.
“To see a world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower Hold infinity in the palms of your hand and eternity in an hour.”

Source : 'Auguries of Innocence' (c.1803) l. 1
“You have no idea how much of the inefficiency of mankind comes from thinking about the wrong-doings of others, and of ourselves. There is nothing more miserable than to feel that by some mistake in life you have not amounted to what you might have, and that your misfortunes all hinge on that mistake.”
“Party spirit enlists a man's virtues in the cause of his vices.”

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