Small Quotes

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A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less. — Jean de la Bruyere
A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The first [quality] to be named must always be the power of attention, of giving one's whole mind to the patient without the interposition of… — Wilfred Trotter
Every achievement, big or small, begins in your mind. — Mary Kay Ash
Sometimes you have to go up really high to see how small you are. — Felix Baumgartner
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. — Saul Bellow
No one person has to do it all but if each one of us follow our heart and our own inclinations we will find the… — John Denver
In desperate hope I go and search for her in all the corners of my house. I find her not. My house is small and… — Rabindranath Tagore
Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving… — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I think that most small amounts of marijuana have been decriminalized in some places, and should be. We really need a re-examination of our entire… — William J. Clinton
I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigarette can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That's why our problem is… — Harry J. Anslinger
Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs… — Natalie Portman
With a small fraction of the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on the Iraq war, the US and Australia could ensure every starving, sunken-eyed… — Bob Brown
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so far extended as… — Thomas Jefferson
We ought, so far as it lies within our power, to aspire to immortality, and do all that we can to live in conformity with… — Aristotle
The proverb says, "Born lucky, always lucky," and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one… — Mark Twain
It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great… — George Eliot
If mankind is to profit freely from the small and sporadic crop of the heroically gifted it produces, it will have to cultivate the delicate… — Wilfred Trotter
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; spiritually we find ourselves on a tiny island in the middle of a boundless ocean of the inexplicable.… — Thomas Huxley
Why are atoms so small? ... Many examples have been devised to bring this fact home to an audience, none of them more impressive than… — Erwin Schrodinger

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