Small Quotes

8386 Small quotes by 4853 unique authors

Small to greater matters must give way. — William Shakespeare
We must pay attention to the millions of children of this generation who are caught up in armed conflicts. How can we protect them from… — Landon Pearson
My goal in life is to leave behind a safe and healthy world for our children. Before I leave this world, I want to be… — Unknown Author
A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which… — Abdoulaye Wade
The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with… — Confucius
In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For… — Anton Chekhov
To most readers the word 'fiction' is an utter fraud. They are entirely convinced that each character has an exact counterpart in real life and… — Louis Auchincloss
If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of… — Anthony Storr
During the first five years that I was writing the series, I made plans and wrote small pieces of all the books. I concentrate on… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are… — Elizabeth Bowen
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

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