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Small Quotes by Gilbert K. Chesterton
- One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
- Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues; capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.
- Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are.
- There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
- I doubt if anyone of any tenderness or imagination can see the hand of a child and not be a little frightened of it. It…
- The vault above us is not deaf because the universe is an idiot; the silence is not the heartless silence of an endless and aimless…
- Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes…
- Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent…
- How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small…
- The hands that had made the sun and stars were too small to reach the huge heads of the cattle. Upon this paradox, we might…
- The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world... The reason is obvious. In a large community we can choose…
- A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.
- The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences…
- When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.
- How can it be a large career to tell other people's children about the Rule of Three, and a small career to tell one's own…
- if a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small.
- Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan, is the gigantic secret of the Christian.
More Small Quotes
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. — Neil Armstrong
- It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one… — Neil Armstrong
- Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back… — David Attenborough
- To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The… — David Attenborough
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,… — Diane Ackerman
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. — Teresa of Avila
- We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces. — Mahmoud Abbas