Small Quotes

8386 quotes by 4853 authors

For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the fine, small details… — Janine Benyus
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future. — Alice Walker
It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods. — Geraldine Ferraro
Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to… — Elsa Schiaparelli
Boredom is what you fight. Constant, ever-present boredom. So you learn to look forward to small things. Sunlight glimpsed through a cloud, an extra piece… — Valerie Wilson Wesley
Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless. — Luc de Clapiers
Small businesses have made the call that to stay alive, health care isn't something they can provide. I think it's a tragic calculation. — Peter Lee
In a major matter no details are small. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of the ground. In… — Nancy Price
We dribble away our life, little by little, in small packages - we don't throw it away all at once. — Robert A. Cook
Westerns was why I got into the business. I grew up on a small farm in California and all I ever wanted to do was… — Brion James
We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually don't, in small ways.… — Christopher Nolan
As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only… — John Boyd Orr
Whether we know it or not, we transmit the presence of everyone we have ever known, as though by being in each other's presence we… — Natalie Goldberg
Our brains are separate and independent enough from our genes to rebel against them.. we do so in a small way everytime we use contraception.… — Richard Dawkins
Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside these small groups… — Ian Kershaw
We have a small, tight family. I left home at a young age and the best thing for me was to go home at Christmas-time… — Unknown Author
If you don't give up, you still have a chance. And when you are small, you have to be very focused and rely on your… — Jack Ma
Through small apertures we glimpse abysses whose somber depths turn us faint .... Yet over the whole there hovers an extraordinary tenderness. — Gustave Flaubert
I think fiction is about small ambition, small failed ambition. — Ethan Canin

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