Small Quotes
8386 quotes by 5083 authors
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War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.
— Hannah Arendt
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I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable.
— J. J. Abrams
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The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
— Neil Armstrong
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It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my…
— Neil Armstrong
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Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It…
— David Attenborough
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes…
— Diane Ackerman
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It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin.…
— Teresa of Avila
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It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin.
— Teresa of Avila
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We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces.
— Mahmoud Abbas
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Beginning to dismantle the Pentagon would save $1 trillion a year - a small government proposal if ever there was one.
— Bill Ayers
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Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.
— Michele Bachmann
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Small-business people do not want to have more than 50 employees, because that's when all the regulatory burden of Obamacare kicks in.
— Michele Bachmann
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Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
— Francis Bacon
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The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together:…
— Francis Bacon
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I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the…
— Anita Baker
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Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.
— Russell Baker
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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.
— Honore de Balzac
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