Small Quotes
8386 quotes by 5026 authors
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The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.
— Brendan Behan
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We grow small trying to be great.
— E. Stanley Jones
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What do we look for as reward? Some little sounds, and scents, and scenes A small hand darting strawberry-ward A woman's aprons full of greens.…
— Ruth Pitter
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That small circle of earth became a second home to both of us. Gardening boring? Never! It has surprise, tragedy, startling developments - a soap…
— Paul Fleischman
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How much the making of a garden, no matter how small, adds to the joy of living, only those who practice the arts and the…
— Ernest Henry Wilson
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He who is born with a silver spoon in his mouth is generally considered a fortunate person, but his good fortune is small compared to…
— Celia Thaxter
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I do not envy the owners of very large gardens. The garden should fit its owner or his or her tastes, just as one's clothes…
— Gertrude Jekyll
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Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to…
— Denis Waitley
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The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or…
— Iris Murdoch
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The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy.
— Marshall McLuhan
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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
— Ambrose Bierce
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It is true that when we take chances, we stand to lose. But it is also true that we will never win anything if we…
— Max Gunther
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Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast
— Minna Antrim
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I'm very easy to see on the podium because everyone else is small!
— Svetlana Khorkina
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The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant places…
— Wendell Willkie
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I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches…
— William Whipple
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No amphibious attack in history has approached this one in size. Along miles of coastline there were hundreds of vessels and small boats afloat and…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great.
— Kara Goucher
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Courage is only an accumulation of small steps.
— Gyorgy Konrad
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