Small Quotes
8386 quotes by 4853 authors
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Oh, how small a portion of earth will hold us when we are dead, who ambitiously seek after the whole world while we are living!
— Philip II of Macedon
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I have always found small mammals enough like ourselves to feel that I could understand what their lives would be like, and yet different enough…
— Unknown Author
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In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation…
— Jimmy Carter
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At first a small line of inconceivable splendour emerged on the horizon, which, quickly expanding, the sun appeared in all of his glory, unveiling the…
— Ann Radcliffe
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There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
— Robert Breault
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If there be a God and one has never sought him, it will be small consolation to remember that one could not get proof of…
— George MacDonald
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When I pick up one of my children and cuddle them, all the strain and stress of life temporarily disappears. There is nothing more wonderful…
— Nicola Horlick
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The important thing is that when your come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will…
— Helen Prejean
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I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that…
— Maria Edgeworth
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One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. ... I have…
— Albert Einstein
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For I have shown from the Scriptures, that no one of the sons of Adam is as to everything, and absolutely, called God, or named…
— Irenaeus of Lyons
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Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?
— H.G. Wells
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The spirit of defeating a man is the same for ten million men. The strategist makes small things into big things, like building a great…
— Miyamoto Musashi
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The strength of God will enable us, a small but faithful band, to overcome the multitude of the faithless.
— Unknown Author
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Greatness after all, in spite of its name, appears to be not so much a certain size as a certain quality in human lives. It…
— Phillips Brooks
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Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the…
— C.S. Lewis
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I think Christians fail so often to get answers to their prayers because they do not wait long enough on God. They just drop down…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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We can't go on forever with 11 million people living in this country in the shadows in an illegal status. We cannot forever have children…
— John McCain
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Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast.
— William Shakespeare
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The great antidote to anxiety is to come to God in prayer. We are to pray about everything. Nothing is too big for Him to…
— Jerry Bridges
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