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Which of you with taking thought can add to his stature one cubit?
What some people invent the rest enlarge.
Late
for the present, I suppose
accentuated each time
you see, quick enough
this fraction of earth
underfoot
that upright speech
imprints,
like the whole of being
resumes
We've hit on something like lightning strikes
What is sweeter than lettered ease?
Proportion than she
To Him no high, no low, no great, no small;
He fills, He bounds, connects and equals all!
Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.
Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I'd feel sad about it.
I will take that as high praise.
One inch of love is an inch of ashes,
Akthent on thee latht thyllable.
Adam has about a foot and fifty pounds on Kim, but after stumbling for a second, she adjusts to the added burden. She bears it.
Eyes darker than a midnight lake penetrate my thoughts with their intensity, and a big hand warmly covers mine
My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.
Weening is not measure.
As large as worlds. As old as Time. As patient as a brick.
How can you measure acting in inches?!?
Every one thinkes his sacke heaviest.
The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink
A hundred-eighty pounds of dead weight - all muscle - to
Auguries of innocence
The emmet's inch and eagle's mile
Make lame philosophy to smile.
He who doubts from what he sees
Will ne'er believe, do what you please.
Stout as a horse
It is an aching thing to know that we are all so tiny, stumbling in a universe that is wider and darker than any Earth-bound sea. Two-fifteen
My Tris should look pale and small
she is pale and small, after all
but instead the room is full of her.
like planks but narrow. Eyebrows unplucked. In the hours he's spent here fewer than a dozen words have passed between them. She has a Mediterranean look but speaks
At a distance this fine oak seems to be of ordinary size. But if I place myself under its branches, the impression changes completely: I see it as big, and even terrifying in its bigness.
I'm tiny. I'm small.
Too big for a youth, too small for a grown man,
I measure myself Against a tall tree I find that I am much taller, For I reach right up to the sun With my eye; And I reach to the shore of the sea With my ear. Nevertheless, I dislike The way the ants crawl In and out of my shadow.
One may come armoured, Invinsible. His will immobile meets the mobile hour. The world blows cannot bend this Victor Head. Calm and sure are his steps in the growing night. The goal recedes, he hurries not his pace. He asks from no help from the inferior Gods. His eyes are fixed on the immutable aim.
Is no great with Thee, there is no small, For Thou art all, and fillest all in all.
Men weigh love with hands.
Your breasts are alabaster orbs.' "What?" Rufus objected. "That's stupid. I'm not saying that."
"Do you have some better suggestion?"
"Why can't you just say she's got a fair set of titties?
A steady flame unwavering & honest
IMBALANCE
Do not let one negative carry the same weight as ninety nine positives
Kamil Ali
Our little infinity.-- John Green
40. My adepts stand upright; their head above the heavens, their feet below the hells.
41. But since one is naturally attracted to the Angel, another to the Demon, let the first strengthen the lower link, the last attach more firmly to the higher.
Tall, aren't you?" she said.
"I didn't mean to be."
Her eyes rounded. She was puzzled. She was thinking. I could see, even on that short acquaintance, that thinking was always going to be a bother to her.
I am a moment illuminating eternity ... I am affirmation ... I am ecstasy.
Hee stands not surely, that never slips.
Towering is the confidence of twenty-one.
In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a glass. The glass is delicate. The thin, tight surface of the liquid light trembles. But it does not break. Time does not pass. Not yet.
Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.
An epic simplicity
skinny as horsehair in a glass of milk
I am almost equal to a shadow.
quick-witted, an open book in her lap; inside her chest pulses something huge, something full of longing, something unafraid.
Alix bore the blow without flinching. A block of marble. Her gaze was piercing and blank, her nose nobly arched. But one cheek was flaking. A hint of strange green and pink vegetation was invading her chin. Another winter perhaps would lay her low.
All things serve the beam
It behooves us to avoid archaisms. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
Weigh every word before you speak it.
I judge wisely ... as if nothin ever surprise me,
Loungin, between two pillars of ivory.
I'm lively, my dome piece is like buildin stones in Greece.
My poems are deep, from ancient thrones I speak.
if I have aught it is gave from Thy Hand
Football is a game of inches and inches make the champion
Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords, And wide as targes let them be, With their shade to cover ye.
Nobody's taller than the last man standing
I wike your big muscles," Stella whispers as she stares at Bates' bulging bicep in awe. Jesus, I like his big muscles, too. In fact, I'd like to trace them with my tongue.
LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.
Roaming through the jungle of "Ohs" and "Ahs" searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats.
I am a stranger to half measures.
I am a stranger to half measures. With life I am on the attack, restlessly ferreting out each pleasure, foraging for answers, wringing from it even the pain. I ransack life, hunt it down. I am the hungry peasants storming the palace gates. I will have my share. No matter how it tastes.
An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.
Woe doth the heavier sit where it perceives it is but faintly borne.
It looks like an asylum landed here," Andrew quipped, poking his head out of Oliver's pocket. "Ooh, I spot an ass-shaped tent."
"What? Seriously?" Sophie said, surprised. However, she was quick to look away. "Oh. You meant that kind of ass. Jeez, Andrew.
OMFGEIGHTPOUNDBABYJESUSONAPOGOSTICK WHAT?
To scale all love down
To a cupped hand's size
The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.
Arsenal's width comes from wide areas
How slender is the accommodation which nature has provided for man.
Tall, aren't you?
I didn't mean to be.
How tall are you, Constantine?" I asked, unable to hide my tears.
Constantine narrowed her eyes at me.
"How tall is you?"
"Five-eleven," I cried. "I'm already taller than the boys' basketball coach."
"Well, I'm five-thirteen, so quit feeling sorry for yourself.
Morning. Vast. Imprecision. Fog has covered everything in gray
absolute. This has lasted. Doubt looms over the mind. Absence
is harder to accept than death.
Puny legs weaken the soul.
Small as a pea. Wider than the sea. This is where you and I came to be.
We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth How slight is the praise we render.
We are so small between the stars, so large against the sky.
Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained.
You're like seven feet tall, aren't you?"
"I am not seven feet tall," he snapped at her as if she'd really insulted him. "I'm six-eleven." When she smirked in disbelief, he added, "And three-quarters.
Such I hold to be the genuine use of Gunpowder: that it makes all men tall.
As the sky prepares to settle its tired, aching feet
into the night's velvet slippers
I settle, into my armchair, soaking the teabag,
of my thoughts, into warm liquidy stars.
They'd had this conversation in the cafeteria. They were waiting by the door so that Georgie could casually get in line behind Jay Anselmo, who was two years older than they were, really into No Doubt and competitive car stereos, and who would undoubtedly ignore her. What's
You're 5 feet nothing, a hundred and nothing.
Death only this mysterious truth unfolds,
The mighty soul how small a body holds.
It's a beautiful thing, to my people who keep an impressive wingspan, even when the cubicle shrink.
We split a bottle of Norman cider. Not everybody sells Norman cider by the bottle.
"Has a European feel" Susan said.
"That sounds terrific" I said. "Can I have one?"
Susan grinned at me. "How did you ever get to be so big without growing up?" she said.
"Iron self-control" I said.
On forever's very now we stand.
a certain stink on a certain kind of soul, a foul scent of hateful smallness too often thwarted . . . then given an ounce of power.
The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.
A man is as big as the measure of his thinking.
LEASE
Life Ends And Session Expires
Kamil Ali - Poem, The Balance' - Profound Vers-A-Tales
Hiresha felt something she struggled to describe. Power and possibility swirled within her, along with a a sense of gasping potential in each moment. When she could a find a name for it, tears beaded her eyes. I am awake.
Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit a kingdom for it was to small a bound. But now two paces of the vilest earth are room enough
Affirmation: I am infinite and forever creation. I am timeless, unbound and span beyond space, time and gravity.
A flame in the dark
When small people start casting big shadows it is time for sunset.
All that is is light
Tall as he is, there is no carrying the slope under his shirt as anything other than a loose gut, a paunch that in itself must weigh as much as a starving Ethiopian child.
much of a muchness.
Light troubles speak; the weighty are struck dumb.
Puny human body, my ass!
The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.
If only I may grow: firmer, simpler,
quieter, warmer.