Small Quotes

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Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of… — Thomas Jefferson
And it does no harm to repeat, as often as you can, 'Without me the literary industry would not exist: the publishers, the agents, the… — Doris Lessing
Exclamation points are the most irritating of all. Look! they say, look at what I just said! How amazing is my thought! It is like… — Lewis Thomas
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. — Ernest Hemingway
Once a job it has begun, do not stop until it's done. Whether it is big or small, do it well or not all. — Bear Grylls
You Americans are so gullible. No, you won't accept communism outright, but we'll keep feeding you small doses of socialism until you'll finally wake up… — Nikita Khrushchev
I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon… — Aaron Siskind
In a foreign country it is far from easy to study a scene at length when you know that at any minute someone may appear… — Robert Adams
Governments are not built to perceive large truths. Only people can perceive great truths. Governments specialize in small and intermediate truths. They have to be… — Norman Cousins
Traveling to swimming meets took me beyond my small-town existence, gave me a hint of the exciting world outside of my own home. — Esther Williams
Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
At the gates of the forest, the surprised man of the world is forced to leave his city estimates of great and small, wise and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reason to preserve wilderness is that we need it. We need wilderness of all kinds, large and small, public and private. Wee need to… — Wendell Berry
I held a blue flower in my hand, probably a wild aster, wondering what its name was, and then thought that human names for natural… — Unknown Author
Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all… — Sigurd F. Olson
The faith religious believers have in God is small compared to the faith people put in politicians, knowing how many times they have been disappointed… — Jonathan Sacks
If we look at the realm of knowledge, how exceedingly small and limited is that part acquired through our own senses; how wide is that… — Matthew Simpson
He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a… — William Makepeace Thackeray
...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in… — Seneca the Younger
As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared with the success… — Noam Chomsky

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