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The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.
Orson Welles

Best, Successful, Worst

The failure of national economic policy is costing us more than jobs; it has begun to weaken that uniquely American spirit of risk-taking, large ambition, and optimism about the future. We must rally them now to bold departures that rebuild our national morale as well as our material prosperity.
Mitch Daniels

Future, Failure, American

I once had a large gay following, but I ducked into an alleyway and lost him.
Emo Philips

We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world.
Hugo Chavez

Destroyed, Elite, Confront

Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Francis Bacon

Experience, Give, Study

The intelligent man who is proud of his intelligence is like the condemned man who is proud of his large cell.
Simone Weil

Proud, Condemned, Cell

I'm sickened by all religions. Religion has divided people. I don't think there's any difference between the pope wearing a large hat and parading around with a smoking purse and an African painting his face white and praying to a rock.
Howard Stern

Religion, Rock, Around

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
John Ruskin

Best, Long, Book

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.
John Ruskin

Either, Labor, Land

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.
Sarah McLachlan

Love, Hurt, Light

When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
Calvin Coolidge

Work, Men, Find

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
Fran Lebowitz

Nature, Enough, Cannot

No nation ever had an army large enough to guarantee it against attack in time of peace, or ensure it of victory in time of war.
Calvin Coolidge

Peace, Time, War

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Time, Great, Off

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
Samuel Johnson

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.
Carter G. Woodson

Best, Put, Majority

Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large.
Plutarch

Men, Moral, Far

If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
Horace

Him, Small, Story

A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Horace

Small, Feet, Shoe

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Life, Around, Youth

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.
Jeff Bridges

Work, Great, Hard

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
Stephen Covey

Character, Public, Behavior

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.
Charles Caleb Colton

True, Enough, Depends

Abortion and racism are evil twins, born of the same lie. Where racism now hides its face in public, abortion is accomplishing the goals of which racism only once dreamed. Together, abortionists are destroying humanity at large and the black community in particular.
Alveda King

Evil, Lie, Humanity

The passions are the same in every conflict, large or small.
Mason Cooley

Small, Same, Conflict

There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them.
Jane Austen

Women, Men, Pretty

America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
E. M. Forster

Life, Find, America

Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.
Xi Zhi

Small, Skepticism, Leads

My own belief is that there is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.
W. Somerset Maugham

Life, Anyone, Belief

I think there is a sense of being forced at this time to look at America's really large shadow and that's not all that bad.
Alice Walker

Time, Bad, America

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