Small Quotes
8386 quotes by 4853 authors
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You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals;…
— Anne Sexton
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It is the government's strong desire to empower this fabric, this social fabric of our society where faith-based programs large and small feel empowered, encouraged,…
— George W. Bush
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Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips,…
— Martin Luther
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Though women have small force to overcome men by reason; yet have they good fortune to undermine them by policy.
— John Lyly
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Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what…
— Jacques Barzun
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Men prominent in life are mostly hard to converse with. They lack small-talk, and at the same time one doesn't like to confront them with…
— Max Beerbohm
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Words are the small change of thought.
— Jules Renard
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If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about other people's opinions.…
— Mother Teresa
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Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.
— Cheryl Strayed
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Take a risk a day - one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it.
— Susan Jeffers
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The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.
— Alan Cohen
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When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur. When you improve conditioning a little each day, eventually you have a big improvement…
— John Wooden
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People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a…
— Robert Bloch
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...Basketball doesn't care what color your skin is. It doesn't care what language you speak or what religion you practice. It doesn't care if you're…
— Jim Calhoun
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Part of the charm of basketball lies in the fact that it's a simple game to understand. Players race up and down a fairly small…
— Dan Jenkins
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Once you get them running, you stay right on top of them, and that way a small force can defeat a large one every time...…
— Stonewall Jackson
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However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbor, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the…
— Neville Chamberlain
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All of our life is but a mass of small habits - practical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual - that bear us irresistibly toward our destiny.
— William James
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A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose…
— Horace
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The only feasible solution is a political reconciliation... Mr. President, the time is now to put pressure on the Iraqi government to change. That is…
— Mike Coffman
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