Own Small Quotes
29 quotes by 27 authors
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Avarice is a cursed vice: offer a man enough gold, and he will part with his own small hoard of food, however great his hunger.
— Lucian
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In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,†she…
— Michel'le
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Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They…
— Neal Stephenson
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There’s nothing entertaining about watching goons hurl venomous slurs at congressmen like the civil rights hero John Lewis and the openly gay Barney Frank How…
— Frank Rich
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The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
— Billy Joel
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We came from a family where we ran our own small business. Our dad made his own products. We made our own sausages, our own…
— Marcy Kaptur
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We cannot wait for great visions from great people, for they are in short supply. It is up to us to light our own small…
— Charles Handy
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Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces of humankind. What…
— David Gemmell
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Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart.
— Alice Walker
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More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Women are really demanding more flexibility in the workplace. Control is the new currency.. Forty-six percent of women want to start their own small businesses.
— Celinda Lake
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It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it…
— Vera Nazarian
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Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.
— James Anthony Froude
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Barack Obama won a second term but no mandate. Thanks in part to his own small-bore and brutish campaign, victory guarantees the president nothing more…
— Ron Fournier
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And in my own life, in my own small way, I've tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That's…
— Michelle Obama
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Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short…
— Alice Walker
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Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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This evolution towards a real responsibility for others is sometimes blocked by fear. It is easier to stay on the level of a pleasant way…
— Jean Vanier
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But even an ordinary secretary or a housewife or a teenager can, within their own small ways, turn on a small light in a dark…
— Miep Gies
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George had taken off all ten of his fingers and tied them into a bundle with what appeared to be either his own small intestines,…
— Alan Goldsher
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