Quotes about Largely

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love. Votes: 3

Largely as a result of the policies and priorities of the Reagan administration, more people are becoming poor and staying poor in this country than at any time since World War II. Votes: 3

The battle for women's rights has been largely won. Votes: 2

The art of love is largely the art of persistence. Votes: 2

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. Votes: 2

You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it. Votes: 2

Journalism largely consists of saying 'Lord Jones is Dead' to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive. Votes: 2

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions. Votes: 2

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race. Votes: 2

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale. Votes: 2

We rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price. Votes: 2

Despite our high rate of unemployment, 300,000 jobs go unfilled largely because many of the unemployed lack the skills needed today as a result of technological progress. Votes: 2

I do not think it is an exaggeration to say history is largely a history of inflation, usually inflations engineered by governments for the gain of governments. Votes: 2

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession. Votes: 2

The freedom that women were supposed to have found in the Sixties largely boiled down to easy contraception and abortion; things to make life easier for men, in fact. Votes: 2

America's future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what he is taught; hence we must watch what we teach, and how we live. Votes: 2

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. Votes: 2

Some of us, for better or worse, develop very stable, consistent, and largely predictable machineries of self. But in others, the self machinery is more flexible and more open to unexpected turns. Votes: 2

The mainstream media spins stories that are largely racist, violent, and irresponsible - stories that celebrate power and demonize victims, all the while camouflaging its pedagogical influence under the cheap veneer of entertainment. Votes: 2

The Nobel award occasions a unique celebration of the vision of science by the public at large. The prestige the prize confers today is largely due to the extraordinary diligence of the Nobel committees. Votes: 2

In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is inconstant. Votes: 2

Your outlook upon life, your estimate of yourself, your estimate of your value are largely colored by your environment. Your whole career will be modified, shaped, molded by your surroundings, by the character of the people with whom you come in contact every day. Votes: 2

If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this. Votes: 2

I emphasize teachers because they are largely left out of the debate. None of the bombastic reports that come from Washington and think tanks telling us what needs to be 'fixed' - I hate such a mechanistic word, as if our schools were automobile engines - ever asks the opinions of teachers. Votes: 2

Modern motor vehicles are safer and more reliable than they have ever been - yet more than 1 million people are killed in car accidents around the world each year, and more than 50 million are injured. Why? Largely because one perilous element in the mechanics of driving remains unperfected by progress: the human being. Votes: 2

The modern Middle East was largely created by the British. It was they who carried the Allied war effort in the region during World War I and who, at its close, principally fashioned its peace. It was a peace presaged by the nickname given the region by covetous British leaders in wartime: 'The Great Loot.' Votes: 2

Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is a chaotic, intense, episodic period, but the chaos is by and large subterranean, and easily appears static to the friendly onlooker who has absorbed the fact of loss and moved on. Votes: 2

Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. That's why the power of positive thinking will not work for most people. The subconscious mind is like a tape player. Until you change the tape, it will not change. Votes: 2

Our civilization depends largely on paper. Votes: 0

The venture community is largely male. Votes: 0

Theology, like fiction, is largely autobiographical. Votes: 0

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. Votes: 0

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies. Votes: 0

Flying is done largely with the imagination. Votes: 0

Writing for me is largely about rewriting. Votes: 0

Politics is largely a matter of heart. Votes: 0

Our destiny is largely in our hands. Votes: 0

I'm largely in favor of financial reform. Votes: 0

Life is largely a matter of expectation. Votes: 0

The Iraq War is largely about oil. Votes: 0

Education is largely run at the state level. Votes: 0

Luck is largely a matter of paying attention. Votes: 0

Twango's hospitality, though largely symbolic, does him credit. Votes: 0

All of science is largely formalized common sense. Votes: 0

Experience is a private, very largely speechless affair. Votes: 0

The health you enjoy is largely your choice Votes: 0

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion. Votes: 0

I sincerely feel that beauty largely comes from within. Votes: 0

We largely become what we have observed and respected. Votes: 0

The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols. Votes: 0

Safety is largely an illusion, and panic knows this. Votes: 0

The internet is something created largely by public funding. Votes: 0

Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me. Votes: 0

Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion. Votes: 0

We are, largely, who we remember ourselves to be Votes: 0

My whole life has largely been one of surprises. Votes: 0

Today's white majority is largely silent about the race question. Votes: 0

Good dressing is largely a question of detail and accessories. Votes: 0

Duty largely consists of pretending that the trivial is critical. Votes: 0

Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Votes: 0

Human nature is largely something that has to be overcome. Votes: 0

Both success and failure are largely the results of HABIT! Votes: 0

I didn't see the time, largely because there wasn't one. Votes: 0

Burt Lancaster was largely responsible for me becoming a director. Votes: 0

What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become. Votes: 0

Support for alternate languages will largely depend on the underlying OS. Votes: 0

People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species. Votes: 0

Greatness is largely a social accident, and almost always socially supported. Votes: 0

The prevailing view is that geniuses are largely built, not born. Votes: 0

How the world perceives you is largely out of your control. Votes: 0

I've been largely an improvisational actor for most of my career. Votes: 0

Letters are largely written to get things out of your system. Votes: 0

Everyone should know that the 'war on cancer' is largely a fraud. Votes: 0

Writing is largely about time, while visual art is largely about space. Votes: 0

Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer. Votes: 0

Even when dead, the hog largely refuses to submit to the machine, Votes: 0

Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth Votes: 0

Both of our wars in Iraq were, on American television, largely bloodless. Votes: 0

The condition of the body limits, largely, the expression of the spirit. Votes: 0

You are a product of what you watch as a kid largely. Votes: 0

American megalomania is largely responsible for the growth of the Skyscraper School. Votes: 0

Collectively and individually fielding is largely a matter of thoughts and discipline. Votes: 0

All fiction is largely autobiographical and much autobiography is, of course, fiction. Votes: 0

Our life stories are largely constructed and without mindfulness can prove destructive. Votes: 0

One's sanctions for truth and goodness are established largely by individual preferences. Votes: 0

The crowd may be influenced easily, largely because it is a crowd. Votes: 0

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself. Votes: 0

Success in training the boy depends largely on the Scoutmaster's own personal example. Votes: 0

The standardized American is largely a myth created not least by Americans themselves. Votes: 0

Our fundraising went up about a thousand percent and that's largely been sustained. Votes: 0

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments. Votes: 0

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. Votes: 0

The worker's effectiveness is determined largely by the way he is being managed. Votes: 0

A good musical comedy consists largely of disorderly conduct occassionally interrupted by talk. Votes: 0

Buffett's genius was largely a genius of character"”of patience, discipline, and rationality. Votes: 0

Two resources, largely untapped in American organizations, are potential information and employee creativity Votes: 0

You know, frankly speaking, money just doesn't figure largely in my world view. Votes: 0

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment. Votes: 0

Reality is a concept that depends largely upon where you point your face. Votes: 0

The state of the Union largely depends on the state of the unions. Votes: 0

Each of us creates his or her own life largely by our attitude. Votes: 0

I know now that the mythic monster I created was largely a fiction. Votes: 0

The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored. Votes: 0

I live in a village where people still care about each other, largely. Votes: 0

After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'. Votes: 0

Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure. Votes: 0

Acting is largely about putting on masks, and music is about removing them. Votes: 0

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. Votes: 0

Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for. Votes: 0

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Votes: 0

Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul. Votes: 0

Floods are 'acts of God,' but flood losses are largely acts of man. Votes: 0

The spontaneity of slaps is sincerity, whereas the ceremonial of caresses is largely convention. Votes: 0

To the biologist the problem of socialism appears largely as a problem of size. Votes: 0

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration and expectation. Votes: 0

The way you see life will largely determine what you get out of it. Votes: 0

Happiness is largely an attitude of mind, of viewing life from the right angle. Votes: 0

If we would listen to our kids, we'd discover that they are largely self-explanatory. Votes: 0

Success in business, as in life, is often largely just a matter of luck. Votes: 0

The failure of the past philosophers is largely the failure to see the self-evident. Votes: 0

She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated. Votes: 0

Koch's youthful idealism about libertarianism had largely devolved into a rationale for corporate self-interest. Votes: 0

My label is largely about fabrics; print is definitely not my point of difference! Votes: 0

The lives of all of us have been moulded largely by induction through suggestion. Votes: 0

The mind is inherently embodied. Thought is mostly unconscious. Abstract concepts are largely metaphorical. Votes: 0

Neutrino physics is largely an art of learning a great deal by observing nothing. Votes: 0

Life does not consist mainly - or even largely - of facts and happenings. Votes: 0

We are dealing with a multidimensional paraphysical phenomenon which is largely indigenous to planet earth. Votes: 0

Schools are generally feminine places, institutions where conformity is valued, taught largely by conformist women. Votes: 0

The leather community is largely anarchistic and shares a healthy distrust of power and arrogance. Votes: 0

For many years, Myanmar's leadership was largely shut out from the world of international diplomacy. Votes: 0

The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards. Votes: 0

Under neoliberalism, culture appears to have largely abandoned its role as a site of critique. Votes: 0

Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices. Votes: 0

Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions. Votes: 0

Education is paradoxical in that it is largely composed of things that cannot be learned Votes: 0

One of the major problems with China is that its innovation is largely borrowed technology. Votes: 0

While hard data may inform the intellect, it is largely soft data that generates wisdom. Votes: 0

My fame is largely due to young people, theyre the first ones to discover me, Votes: 0

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go. Votes: 0

Cyber war takes place largely in secret, unknown to the general public on both sides. Votes: 0

In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant. Votes: 0

Whatever may be, I am still largely the creator and ruler of my emotional destiny. Votes: 0

I will have a largely happier week if I get to do a physical stunt. Votes: 0

I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth. Votes: 0

Letting people in is largely a matter of not expending the energy to keep them out. Votes: 0

The life of nations no less than that of men is lived largely in the imagination. Votes: 0

Before then, Britain was pessimistic and the role of government was largely managing Britain in decline. Votes: 0

Resting metabolic rate is largely genetically determined, but our calorie intake has an effect as well. Votes: 0

I'm largely interested in people who are just great actors, and they're not necessarily hugely famous. Votes: 0

Most procrastination is largely indecision. Someone has said that "hell is just truth seen too late." Votes: 0

Find out what your temptations are, and you will find out largely what you are yourself. Votes: 0

The concept of religious freedom is largely ignored in the curriculum of our nation's public schools. Votes: 0

Being a hero, the man had observed, is largely a matter of knowing one’s cues. Votes: 0

More particularly, having a largely German-oriented education has made me very responsive to 19th-century German literature. Votes: 0

Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way. Votes: 0

Life is so largely controlled by chance that its conduct can be but a perpetual improvisation. Votes: 0

Advertising is to a genuine article what manure is to land, - it largely increases the product. Votes: 0

A degree helps to a degree, but your work is largely what you create it to be. Votes: 0

The work of a science blogger is largely comprised of correcting and criticizing bad science news reporting. Votes: 0

Stop-and-frisk was ruled unconstitutional in New York, because it largely singled out black and Hispanic young men. Votes: 0

The reflection of the current social paradigm tells us we are largely determined by conditioning and conditions. Votes: 0

My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing. Votes: 0

Because Utah is largely Mormon country, the firing squad's a little different. You're blindfolded but no cigarette. Votes: 0

Evangelicals have largely misinterpreted Aquinas, and they have placed on him views that he did not hold. Votes: 0

There are many people who think I'm actually a gangster or a mafioso, largely because of 'Goodfella'. Votes: 0

We each shape our own life, and the shape of it is determined largely by our attitude. Votes: 0

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic. Votes: 0

LIPID (Last Idiot Person I Dated) syndrome: a largely undiagnosed but pervasive disease that afflicts single women. Votes: 0

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness. Votes: 0

Hinde Esther Kreitman is a forgotten literary foremother, her works largely lost, ignored and out of print. Votes: 0

Gradually, you were given a description of the world, a way of seeing, which is largely sexual. Votes: 0

My assumption is that fundamentally the picture of the human animal, as developed by Freud, is largely right. Votes: 0

It is good fiction, so largely ignored now, that brings us so much closer to the real facts. Votes: 0

Most architects work in studios largely divorced from academia, as if ideas, criticism and historical research were irrelevant. Votes: 0

The American Dream is the largely unacknowledged screen in front of which all American writing plays itself out, Votes: 0

Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened. Votes: 0

Imitate the magnificent trees that speak no word of their rapture, but only breathe largely the luminous breeze. Votes: 0

The common interests very largely elude public opinion entirely, and can be managed only by a specialised class. Votes: 0

If conversion makes no improvements in a man's outward actions then I think his 'conversion' was largely imaginary. Votes: 0

People don't have great attitudes because of great success, they have great success largely because of great attitudes. Votes: 0

The Muslim population in India is, largely speaking, not radicalised. From the beginning, they were always very secular-minded. Votes: 0

The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era. Votes: 0

I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk. Votes: 0

While I learned, I hid out largely in the gay community, and overall it kept me very safe. Votes: 0

I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins. Votes: 0

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question. Votes: 0

Our safety at home and the cause of freedom abroad is largely contingent upon our success in Iraq. Votes: 0

The societies to which I have been exposed seemed to me largely machines for the suppression of women. Votes: 0

I love making art... It's largely how I see myself. I'm an artist; therefore I have to make art. Votes: 0

One's happiness is very largely a question of state of mind rather than the world you are looking at. Votes: 0

It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen. Votes: 0

I don't see (subprime mortgage market troubles) imposing a serious problem. I think it's going to be largely contained. Votes: 0

Mastery in poetry consists largely in the instinct for not ruining or smothering or tinkering with moments of vision. Votes: 0

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. Votes: 0

English civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket. Votes: 0

The market-driven spectacle of war demands a culture of conformity, quiet intellectuals and a largely passive republic of consumers. Votes: 0

The capitalist system of coordination by trade seems to be largely populated by indigestible lumps of socialism called corporations Votes: 0

Software is largely a service industry operating under the persistent but unfounded delusion that it is a manufacturing industry Votes: 0

Ive spent my whole life working in a medium that was regarded with contempt largely because of historical reasons. Votes: 0

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic Votes: 0

My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry. Votes: 0

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory. Votes: 0

In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory. Votes: 0

History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. Votes: 0

Glory is largely a theatrical concept. There is no striving for glory without a vivid awareness of an audience. Votes: 0

While human nature largely determines how we hear the notes, it is nurture that lets us hear the music. Votes: 0

Each collected edition of Paper Girls that we put out will largely be set in an entirely different era. Votes: 0

The physicians are the natural attorneys of the poor, and the social problems should largely be solved by them. Votes: 0

How you manage yourself as you deal with stuff in your life largely determines the quality of your life. Votes: 0

In every waking hour a sacred theater is in session, played out before an audience that is largely blind. Votes: 0

In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself. Votes: 0

Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension. Votes: 0

We are in the midst of a protracted wage slump, ... a troubling trend that is largely going unnoticed by policymakers. Votes: 0

The story line of my novel [The Kite Runner] is largely fictional. The characters were invented and the plot imagined. Votes: 0

My capacity for humour may have come largely from my father - he liked to entertain people, make people laugh. Votes: 0

[Attributional] factors serve as conveyors of efficacy information that influence performance largely through their intervening effects on self-percepts of efficacy Votes: 0

Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic. Votes: 0

Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil. Votes: 0

I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil. Votes: 0

I believe that mental health services should be based on the premise that the origins of distress are largely social. Votes: 0

You are lost because you have not been being honest with yourself, and your life is largely unexamined and unexerted. Votes: 0

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless. Votes: 0

The American uppermiddle-class citizen is a composite of negatives. He is largely delineated by what he is not. - pg. 41 Votes: 0

The quality of your thinking is largely determined by the quantity of the information you have with which to work Votes: 0

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail. Votes: 0

These human experiments have gone largely unchallenged and unquestioned by Congress, the medical profession, and the scientific community at large. Votes: 0

Man is a thinking being; what and how we think largely determines what we are and what we will become. Votes: 0

When I was growing up, I lived in a neighborhood that was largely Latino and I thought I was Latino! Votes: 0

Traditionally vice presidential debates don't move the needle one way or the other. They have largely been irrelevant and inconsequential. Votes: 0

Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely. Votes: 0

To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record. Votes: 0

Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline. Votes: 0

People who are in power make their arrangements in secret, largely as a way of maintaining and furthering that power. Votes: 0

The government is largely influenced by people who advocate corporate welfare and advocate these policies that create this two-tiered society. Votes: 0

In Iraq and Afghanistan, our soldiers signed up intentionally. That's a huge difference from the largely conscripted army of my era. Votes: 0

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history. Votes: 0

Civilization no longer needs to open up wilderness; it needs wilderness to help open up the still largely unexplored human mind. Votes: 0

The Christian community continues to exist because the conclusions of the critical study of the Bible are largely withheld from them. Votes: 0

People like me, whose income largely comes from dividends, should pay more taxes. The problem is that taxes aren't used efficiently. Votes: 0

Agricultural science is largely a race between the emergence of new pests and the emergence of new techniques for their control. Votes: 0

The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring, Votes: 0

Blaming the running injury epidemic on big, bad Nike seems too easy - but that's okay, because it's largely their fault. Votes: 0

African famine is not a visitation of fate. It is largely man-made, and the men who made it are largely Africans. Votes: 0

Grozny's been largely rebuilt. But at the same time, I think the war is very much being waged inside its survivors. Votes: 0

An unmanly sort of man whose love life seems to have been largely confined to crying in laps and playing mouse. Votes: 0

The literature of the inner life is very largely a record of struggle with the inordinate passions of the social self. Votes: 0

The measure of our love for others can largely be determined by the frequency and earnestness of our prayers for them. Votes: 0

History thus becomes largely a study of character. Insight into temperament is hardly less important than the probing of "original materials." Votes: 0

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. Votes: 0

The most striking thing is that even before Osama bin Laden was killed, he seemed largely irrelevant to the Arab Spring. Votes: 0

Conventional people are roused to fury by departure from convention, largely because they regard such departure as a criticism of themselves. Votes: 0

Servers make very little in regular wages and largely rely on tips to pay the bills and budget for weeks ahead. Votes: 0

The technology [semiconductors] which has transformed practical existence is largely an application of what was discovered by these allegedly irresponsible [natural] philosophers. Votes: 0

What is the professor's function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue. Votes: 0

Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines. Votes: 0

Virtually all organisations known to you work largely by means of your greed. They attract you because... they appeal to your greed. Votes: 0

Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows. Votes: 0

A largely unregulated Internet has created knowledge and wealth, but it's also long provided a medium for predatory, abusive and bullying behavior. Votes: 0

The greatly increased consumption of alcoholic beverages is very largely a direct result of the increased purchasing power created by wartime expenditures. Votes: 0

The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events. Votes: 0

Painting is an unspoken and largely unrecognized dialogue, where paint speaks silently in masses and colors and the artist responds in moods. Votes: 0

In a world that operates largely at random, coincidences are to be expected, but any one of them must always be mistrusted. Votes: 0

Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be. Votes: 0

In every remark he found a meaning, but not always the true meaning, and his life, though vivid, was largely a dream. Votes: 0

What you concentrate on largely determines the quality and quantity of the results that you get and the success that you enjoy. Votes: 0

More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle. Votes: 0

Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil. Votes: 0

If you stick around long enough and you do enough of the right things, you get seen in a largely positive light. Votes: 0

I express many absurd opinions. But I am not the first man to do it; American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense. Votes: 0

why shouldnt things be largely absurd, futile, and transitory? they are so, and we are so, and they and we go together. Votes: 0

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football. Votes: 0

The size and quality of your achievement will depend largely upon what sort of image you have of yourself at your best. Votes: 0

On a slightly unconnected note, I am sorry to report that babies, as a collective species, are largely oblivious to my charms." Votes: 0

I know that my audience is largely women, so what I try to do a lot of times is address their issues. Votes: 0

Most of the debates I've participated in have been on Christian college campuses or on secular campuses; so, largely before a student audience. Votes: 0

Sustained success is largely a matter of focusing regularly on the right things and making a lot of uncelebrated little improvements every day. Votes: 0

Ironically, one of the clearer threats to consumer privacy is the government's largely unchecked ability to collect your sensitive information without due process. Votes: 0

Our success depends very largely upon how well we negotiate our way through our daily contacts with other people without friction or opposition. Votes: 0

Republicans working in leadership and the trenches are largely old, white, male, out-of-touch, out of ideas, technology averse, and living in the past. Votes: 0

The history of the development of contemporary writing in Vancouver from 1946 to 1960 is pretty largely a one-man show, and that man was me. Votes: 0

Geologists are rapidly becoming convinced that the mammals spread from their central Asian point of origin largely because of great variations in climate. Votes: 0

Africa's a wreck and it's not because it was hit by an asteroid. It's a wreck largely because it was hit by Europe. Votes: 0

One of the reasons there are largely Catholic and largely Protestant regions of Germany today is that people did sort themselves out geographically. Votes: 0

The American order reveals a method that was largely the outcome of material necessity, as exemplified by the Colonial style and the grid. Votes: 0

Metaphors hide in plain sight, and their influence is largely unconscious. We should mind our metaphors, though, because metaphors make up our minds. Votes: 0

Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes Votes: 0

It's frustrating; terrorism is rare and largely ineffectual, yet we regularly magnify the effects of both their successes and failures by terrorizing ourselves. Votes: 0

Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions - whether of sex, race, or servitude. Votes: 0

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way. Votes: 0

Your own level of self-acceptance is determined largely by how well you feel you are accepted by the important people in your life. Votes: 0

The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens. Votes: 0

Some of us will probably become famous. It will be an ironic fame fashioned largely by those who have never seen our work. Votes: 0

The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flowby the tilt of the social landscape. Votes: 0

Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry. Votes: 0

If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries. Votes: 0

Theatre is done largely for the love of the craft. Television makes you famous. And films immortalize you. That's the relationship between the three. Votes: 0

Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things. Votes: 0

Money follows interest, and interest is largely driven by media attention, which is more easily captured by the drama of conflict than by peace. Votes: 0

England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly. Votes: 0

Until relatively recently, law enforcement's ability to determine an individual's location and track their movements was largely limited to natural human powers of observation. Votes: 0

If there's something I feel certain of, it is that we're not very aware of each other and that's largely because of social media. Votes: 0

I think therapeutic spirituality has largely been a help in the modern world. So the fact that people can approach religion with practical needs. Votes: 0

Sure, it was your idea and your fly, but he caught the big fish. Remember, fairness is a human idea largely unknown in nature. Votes: 0

If there is ever a science of programming language design, it will probably consist largely of matching languages to the design methods they support. Votes: 0

Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings. Votes: 0

Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of becoming a successful executive. Votes: 0

The United States as we know it today is largely the result of mechanical inventions, and in particular of agricultural machinery and the railroad. Votes: 0

The eternal struggle in the law between constancy and change is largely a struggle between history and reason, between past reason and present needs. Votes: 0

The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster. Votes: 0

The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present. Votes: 0

It was Rousseau who was largely responsible for the problem by giving currency to the idea that freedom can exist without responsibility and discipline. Votes: 0

Man is largely a creature of habit, and many of his activities are more or less automatic reflexes from the stimuli of his environment. Votes: 0

As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such families. Votes: 0

One of the central mysteries of biology is why the genome is largely identical from cell to cell, even though cells do different things. Votes: 0

A lack of government oversight hasn't hindered the Internet. Quite the opposite. A hands-off approach is largely responsible for its fantastic growth and success. Votes: 0

The most important thing here is to largely ignore what customers say, and instead watch what they do or track where they spend money. Votes: 0

Unlike other sports, which are largely determined by individual athletic ability or team strength, NASCAR requires its competitors to cooperate in order to win. Votes: 0

I discovered that a diplomat's life is largely entertaining and meeting people. At the end of the day there's nothing. So I gave up. Votes: 0

I support [FRAME's] objectives, largely because I do not believe that results of tests conducted on animals will be neccessarily relevant to human beings... Votes: 0

Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. Votes: 0

Make it new is the message not just of modern art but of modern consumerism, of which modern art is largely a mirror image. Votes: 0

I'm glad you think so. I've always considered my sense of humor to be largely underappreciated, so it's nice to finally meet a fan. Votes: 0

Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care. Votes: 0

We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. Votes: 0

There is a largely-ignored healthcare calamity in the United States that sees between two and three women die every day during pregnancy and childbirth. Votes: 0

When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read. Votes: 0

Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings. Votes: 0

Commencement speeches were invented largely in the belief that outgoing college students should never be released into the world until they have been properly sedated. Votes: 0

The notion that employees and companies have a social contract with each other that goes beyond a paycheck has largely vanished in United States business. Votes: 0

My study is a converted garage which is largely lined with bookshelves and cardboard boxes filled with manuscripts of my film scripts, plays and books. Votes: 0

Indeed, it was largely the clubbiness of the Washington village press corps that let Nixon get away with Watergate and still win his landslide in 1972. Votes: 0

But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided. Votes: 0

Indeed, the woes of Software Engineering are not due to lack of tools, or proper management, but largely due to lack of sufficient technical competence. Votes: 0

If we ever do end up acting just like rats or Pavlov's dogs, it will be largely because behaviorism has conditioned us to do so. Votes: 0

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product. Votes: 0

English history consists largely of royal people getting their heads chopped off...Needless to say, this brand of history was a hit with our son. Votes: 0

If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. Votes: 0

Could it be that my circle is largely black and that it is why I am influential in black circles but not in white circles? Votes: 0

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read... But the Press is not free, the newspapers are owned by rich men. Votes: 0

Let's face it. Leftism is the political form of evil. And the left largely controls the modern West. Where, then, does that leave us all? Votes: 0

Injuries happen when your mind is beyond your body, largely when you think you're King Kong and lift weights heavier than the body can handle. Votes: 0

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting #‎ intuition guide my way. Votes: 0

My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth. Votes: 0

Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor. Votes: 0

Success is very largely a matter of adjusting one's self to the ever-varying and changing environments of life, in a spirit of harmony and poise. Votes: 0

When I joined the band I was coming largely from an improvising background, and the idea of a fluid rhythm that was really coherent attracted me. Votes: 0

Somebody once told me that whatever you're listening to at 30 years old is going to be what you listen to for life and that's largely true. Votes: 0

Whether in conversation we generally agree or disagree with others is largely a matter of habit: the one tendency makes as much sense as the other. Votes: 0

I think age, if you are healthy, I think age is largely a number. My mother lived to be 101. So I'm planning on another quarter century. Votes: 0

I am opposed to authority, that egg of misery and oppression; I am opposed to it largely for what it does to those who exercise it. Votes: 0

The country's present supply of foreign news depends largely on how best a number of dry goods merchants in New York think they can sell underwear. Votes: 0

My inner world seems largely to consist of three rotating emotions: embarrassment, rage, and tension. Sometimes I feel excited, but I think that's just positive tension. Votes: 0

The shortcoming of purely political discourse between Christians and Jews arises from the fact that it is largely built upon the perception of a common enemy. Votes: 0

Even in the early days of America when it was largely an agrarian or agricultural, farmer-type of economy. There were still cities; there were still elites. Votes: 0

Even in the early days of America when it was largely an agrarian or agricultural, farmer-type of economy. There were still cities; there were still elites. Votes: 0

Honesty is largely a matter of information, of knowing that dishonesty is a mistake. Principle is not as powerful in keeping people straight as a policeman. Votes: 0

...These inbred pinheads are the only people you could find in the world to agree with your philosophies. (In reference to Wally George's largely redneck audience.) Votes: 0

Whereas she wished more of the population were better educated, she also believed that education was largely wasted on the majority of the people she met. Votes: 0

The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home. Votes: 0

Not only should we encourage kids to daydream, but also to jump-in and build those dreams. Dreaming is largely lost among adults drowning in self-imposed realities. Votes: 0

Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme. Votes: 0

It seems to take a lifetime for us to learn that wisdom consists largely in a graceful acceptance of things that do not immediately concern us. Votes: 0

modern science was largely conceived of as an answer to the servant problem and ... it is generally practiced by those who lack a flair for conversation. Votes: 0

All this history...,' Danny says, then trails off. Lost in it. Feeling it connect. Realizing the weight of the world comes largely from its past. Votes: 0

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were heavily colored and largely controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction. Votes: 0

One colossal advantage of being in extra innings is that you can tell it like it is, say what you think, and largely eschew political caution. Votes: 0

The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate. Votes: 0

Now, national conventions are largely an excuse for companies and party leaders to throw parties for delegates to attend, to network and have a good time. Votes: 0

The preparation for active rook play entails what is called the opening of lines, which largely depends on pawn play, especially on the proper use of levers. Votes: 0

Those who largely rely on their hands and the beautiful or shocking traces of the imagination that they leave on the canvas ...CONCRETE... one builds a picture. Votes: 0

There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available to human beings had problems. Votes: 0

The genius of America's endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the costs of war largely invisible. Votes: 0

There is obstruction. Enlightenment is not very popular in this world. History tells us that enlightened teachers who made themselves largely available to human beings had problems. Votes: 0

I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil. Votes: 0

Before feminism, work was largely defined as what men did or would do. Thus, a working woman was someone who labored outside the home for money, masculine-style. Votes: 0

I have come to the conclusion that my subjective account of my motivation is largely mythical on almost all occasions. I don't know why I do things. Votes: 0

Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts or happenings. It consist mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head. Votes: 0

When I was younger, I'd buy a vinyl album, take it home and live with it, and I think that attachment's largely gone for the file-sharing generation. Votes: 0

Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm. Votes: 0

... I feel as though I am shelved. That I have been given the words to the story of my life, but that I have remained largely unread... Votes: 0

The economic success of the Reagan Administration was largely dependent upon the pyramiding of massive debt and the siphoning of capital from the rest of the world. Votes: 0

Homeschool history tells of more than two centuries of home-teaching influence on American education, although it has been largely obscured by the drawn curtains of conventional bias. Votes: 0

A little learning is a dangerous thing.Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring;There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,and drinking largely sobers us again. Votes: 0

Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues. Votes: 0

The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts. Votes: 0

Iraq is a very wealthy country. Enormous oil reserves. They can finance, largely finance, the reconstruction of their own country. And I have no doubt that they will. Votes: 0

'Green' is likely to be a big issue in the 2008 U.S. presidential election - largely in response to George Bush's suicidal refusal to engage with environmental issues. Votes: 0

The sorts of sectors which feature so largely in the [Donald] Trump program, and its rhetoric, account now for perhaps only about 15 percent of the American work force. Votes: 0

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them. Votes: 0

Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. Votes: 0

President George W. Bush won reelection in 2004 largely because he was seen as comfortable in his own skin, while rival John Kerry was viewed as a flip-flopping opportunist. Votes: 0

[Louis] Brandeis had a very distinctive vision of political economy that he persuaded Woodrow Wilson to adopt in the 1912 election and that he largely enacted from the bench. Votes: 0

The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point. Votes: 0

Deeds of violence in our society are performed largely by those trying to establish their self-esteem, to defend their self-image, and to demonstrate that they, too, are significant. Votes: 0

Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them. Votes: 0

Our thoughts are mainly controlled by our subconscious, which is largely formed before the age of 6, and you cannot change the subconscious mind by just thinking about it. Votes: 0

Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day. Votes: 0

Happiness is experienced largely in striving towards a goal, not in having attained things, because our nature is always to want to go on to the next endeavor. Votes: 0

I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true. Votes: 0

A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it. Votes: 0

Myopia, in more than ninety-five percent of cases, begins between five and ten years of age. It increases largely because the myopic eye is given a minus lens. Votes: 0

She has great problems of her own to solve, very grim and perilous problems, and a right solution, if we can attain to it, would largely benefit mankind. Votes: 0

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely. Votes: 0

People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction. Votes: 0

I watch a lot of TV, but I find that recently it's largely oddball stuff ... Scripted stuff sometimes feels like homework, like I'm scoping out the competition or something. Votes: 0

Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud, and that the major cancer research organizations are derelict in their duties to the people who support them. Votes: 0

When a person says only what others love to hear, he is largely liked; but if he loves to say what he likes only, then others hardly hear him. Votes: 0

America's story is largely an immigrant story. That hasn't changed since the Pilgrims ate their first turkey some four hundred years ago, and they were the original boat people. Votes: 0

Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem. Votes: 0

People have faith in 'faith' and largely forget that our confidence is not in the power of faith but in the Person and work of the Savior, Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

I'm not a militant atheist, just an atheist. In fact, in a largely atheist country like the UK I think it's a bit silly to be a militant atheist. Votes: 0

One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five. Votes: 0

And my first film was Carnal Knowledge, another amazing experience, largely because of Mike Nichols, who would tell me you can't do anything wrong because you're doing everything right. Votes: 0

Of course, all writers draw upon their personal experiences in describing day-to-day life and human relationships, but I tend to keep my own experiences largely separate from my stories. Votes: 0

The scientific facts indicate that all the temperature changes observed in the last 100 years were largely natural changes and were not caused by carbon dioxide produced in human activities. Votes: 0

Frigidity is largely nonsense. It is this generation's catchword, one only vaguely understood and constantly misused. Frigid women are few. There is a host of diffident and slow-ripening ones. Votes: 0

...because of forced globalization, there's a clear trend these days towards uniformity. This trend comes largely from the ever-greater concentration of power in the hands of large media groups. Votes: 0

Since so many romantic comedies vary little in their storyline, the success or failure of such movies depends largely on whether we believe in the relationship of the protagonists. Votes: 0

We're good at noticing sudden movements of middle size objects in our immediate visual field, but what is out of sight is for us is largely out of mind. Votes: 0

A person can no more make money suddenly and largely, and be unharmed by it, than one could suddenly grow from a child's stature to an adult's without harm. Votes: 0

The closure of the book is an illusion largely created by its materiality, its cover. Once the book is considered on the plane of its significance, it threatens infinity. Votes: 0

Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet todays surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem. Votes: 0

"People's minds are trained largely at the expense of their hearts." This is not so; it is only that there are more educable minds than there are educable hearts. Votes: 0

Stock speculation is largely a matter of A trying to decide what B, C and D are likely to think-with B, C and D trying to do the same. Votes: 0

To be honest with you, I worry about concentration of ownership in media, where you have a handful of media conglomerates largely controlling what we see, hear and read. Votes: 0

Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power. Votes: 0

It's easy to see from commercials the sorts of activities I should presumably be engaged in, but I'm fairly certain that American manhood is vague, internally contradictory and largely nonsensical. Votes: 0

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill. Votes: 0

Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories. Votes: 0

Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age. Votes: 0

I also think it's crucial to convey that the [Black] Movement largely succeeded because of the unwavering dedication of young people willing to risk their comfort, their safety, their lives. Votes: 0

This is a lesson mankind has not yet learned. We identify, and stratify, and treat persons largely on the basis of their accidental (physical) characteristics, which have no deeper meaning. Votes: 0

The good teams, the dominant teams, aren't necessarily dominant in stadiums, but they are dominant largely in moments, when they do what's required to get out of stadiums with victories. Votes: 0

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire. Votes: 0

I believe that the motion picture is destined to revolutionize our educational system and that in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks. Votes: 0

The more developed sexual passion, in both sexes, is very largely an emotion of power, domination, or appropriation. There is no state of feeling that says mine, mine, more fiercely. Votes: 0

Doctors quickly learn that how much they make has little to do with how good they are. It largely depends on how they handle the business side of their practice. Votes: 0

Unlike then, the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages, largely electronic means of communication that replace mail. Votes: 0

I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers. Votes: 0

The reality is (Clinton's) so-called tax cut is basically giving money to people who largely don't pay taxes, so that it's really spending rather than a tax cut, ... This Week. Votes: 0

This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe. Votes: 0

The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence. Votes: 0

Republicans believe largely in the market working, Democrats believe stereotypically that you've got to give people something. So why not give people a chance to let the market work for them. Votes: 0

The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America. Votes: 0

The average late-night viewer is in their mid-50s and the average viewer of TBS is in their 30s and is largely African-American and Hispanic, already, before I even get there. Votes: 0

In those days one advantage of being a woman was that there was a basic courtesy towards us on which we could draw - something which today's feminists have largely dissipated. Votes: 0

Not only does the liberal paradigm not even come close to agreeing with the social and economic reality on the ground today, worse, it has largely congealed into a political religion. . . Votes: 0

This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null. Votes: 0

Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access. Votes: 0

It is an odd paradox that a society, which can now speak openly and unabashedly about topics that were once unspeakable, still remains largely silent when it comes to mental illness Votes: 0

I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but it's also much more obvious than comics. Votes: 0

A happy disposition is largely a disposition to make others happy. One life permeates all things, and there is no corner of the cosmos too remote to feel its heart throb. Votes: 0

Five percent seems very little to ask when you consider that the artist, through his or her efforts over many years, is largely responsible for the increased value of their work. Votes: 0

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. Votes: 0

Because I was aspirational, I did my work, I was respectful to my teachers, I experienced a lot of bullying from the black kids. My friends were largely white or Asian. Votes: 0

This war so far has cost us $125 billion and counting, because largely we decided to do it on our own, with only the United Kingdom as a paying, fully participating partner. Votes: 0

As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly; it depends largely on how any one brain pathway is used. Votes: 0

Our assessment of socio-economic worth is largely a sham. We scientists should not lend ourselves to it - though we routinely do. We should, instead, insist on applying the criterion of quality. Votes: 0

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially in Poland, Hungary, and the South East generally. Votes: 0

Let me be more aggressive: we are largely better at doing than we are at thinking, thanks to antifragility. I'd rather be dumb and antifragile than extremely smart and fragile, any time. Votes: 0

I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day. Votes: 0

Those projects most successful on Kickstarter - those that receive funding completely and quickly - do so largely because the creator has a strong social network and invites people to be engaged. Votes: 0

A healthy economy is largely a result of a reasonable balance between consumption today and consumption deferred, and it's pretty clear that balance has been ridiculously out of whack for a while. Votes: 0

If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty. Votes: 0

Since violence is largely a male pastime, cultures that empower women tend to move away from the glorification of violence and are less likely to breed dangerous subcultures of rootless young men. Votes: 0

In short both the things we feel we need and the things available for us to buy depend largely"”beyond some point, almost entirely"”on the things that others choose to buy. Votes: 0

Good fortune opens the hand as well as the heart wonderfully; and to give somewhat when we have largely received, but to afford a vent to the unusual ebullition of the sensations. Votes: 0

I stepped out on faith to follow my lifelong dream of being an author. I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk. Votes: 0

There is no subsititue for fishing sense, and if a man doesn't have it, verily, he may cast like an angel and still use his creel largely to transport sandwiches and beer Votes: 0

I've been largely undecided about everything for most of my life. I can barely commit to a phone bill... Somewhere along the line it has become my career due to continuing work. Votes: 0

We kind of agree with Mao that political power comes largely from the barrel of a gun. And we get it that if you want a friend you should get a dog. Votes: 0

Our fears and taboos are largely social conditions imposed upon us by the ruling powers in order to keep us opressed. They manipulate us with our fears. Now let us be fearless. Votes: 0

I have two older sisters and one older brother and hold them largely responsible for the trouble I got into growing up. I believe as the youngest child, that is my right. Votes: 0

You can spend your whole life trying to be popular, but at the end of the day, the size of the crowd at your funeral will be largely dictated by the weather. Votes: 0

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too. Votes: 0

I will outlaw bullshit. After the passage of this law the patriarchy will inevitably start to crumble as will the concept of war itself which is largely a large load of bullshit. Votes: 0

I won the seat of Oxley largely on an issue that has resulted in me being called a racist. That issue related to my comment that Aboriginals received more benefits than non-Aboriginals. Votes: 0

But I simply can't stand a view limited to this earth, I feel life is so small unless it has windows into other worlds...I like mathematics largely because it is not human. Votes: 0

Gruff," I said, "I find myself largely clueless about why mortal women do what they do. It will take a wiser man than me to understand what's in a fae woman's mind. Votes: 0

That Britain today is a liberal society is largely because of the philosophy and outlook of the Anglican Church, which did so much to shape our core values in the past few centuries. Votes: 0

Just as the water of a river near its mouth, in its final form, is composed largely of many tributaries, so an idea, in its final form, is composed largely of later additions. Votes: 0

The Catholic teaching against murder, for example, is largely the same as our secular laws. But as a law, it obviously has a secular rationale at least as strong as its religious rationale. Votes: 0

The purse of the people is the real seat of sensibility. Let it be drawn upon largely, and they will then listen to truths which could not excite them through any other organ. Votes: 0

Music is just a word for something we love largely because it consists of things that words can't express. Likewise, the heart is just a word for something in us that music sometimes touches. Votes: 0

Initially, before the modern state of Iraq was created, there were three separate provinces here: a Shiite in the south, a largely Sunni one in the middle, and a Kurdish one in the north. Votes: 0

Hollywood is largely about scammers and con men. It was my main livelihood for about 25 years, and the scams were beautiful and ugly, cheap and expensive, but, wow, were there a lot of scammers. Votes: 0

All the students have shown more advance in two months of summer study than they have in a year of ordinary instruction, largely due to their free and wholesome life in the open air. Votes: 0

A female friend who caught me watching Fashion TV reckons its audience is largely made up of slobbering men who are just taking a break from the appalling Men & Motors channel. I don't agree. Votes: 0

Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. Psychologists have known this for years, but it seems largely hidden from the world of commerce. Votes: 0

The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders. Votes: 0

We like to look out on the world and see ourselves, so we have many, many novels, memoirs, and short stories in Iraq that are largely about Americans in Iraq, doing what Americans do. Votes: 0

There are many hearing me who now know well that they are not Christians because they do not love to give. To give largely and liberally, not grudging at all, requires a new heart. Votes: 0

Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader, who - thanks largely to the media - has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans. Votes: 0

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side. Votes: 0

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to mis'ry (all he had) a tear, He gained from Heav'n ('t was all he wish'd) a friend. Votes: 0

Man does not know most of the rules on which he acts; and even what we call his intelligence is largely a system of rules which operate on him but which he does not know. Votes: 0

It is extremely urgent to try and adapt our thoughts realistically to a world which has no fixed general direction either upward or downward, but is likely to vary largely according to what we do. Votes: 0

The concept of "mental health" in our society is defined largely by the extent to which an individual behaves in accord with the needs of the system and does so without showing signs of stress. Votes: 0