Small Quotes
8386 Small quotes by 4853 unique authors
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Plants with leaves no more efficient than today's solar cells could out-compete real plants, crowding the biosphere with an inedible foliage. Tough omnivorous bacteria could…
— K. Eric Drexler
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There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to…
— Peter Gay
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The dilemma of our age is the combination of unprecedented material progress and systematic spiritual decline. The decline in public and private morality can be…
— King Hussein I
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Is is in the small decisions you and I make every day that create our destiny.
— Tony Robbins
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Small things done consistently, in strategic places, create major impact.
— David Allen
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Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.
— Larry Page
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Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to…
— Rajendra K. Pachauri
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Let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences…
— John F. Kennedy
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In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The great ecosystems are like complex tapestries - a million complicated threads, interwoven, make up the whole picture. Nature can cope with small rents in…
— Gerald Durrell
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The 31th of May, I perceived in the same water more of those Animals, as also some that were somewhat bigger. And I imagine, that…
— Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
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But everybody is afraid of death; that too is contagious. Your parents are afraid of death, your neighbors are afraid of death. Small children start…
— Rajneesh
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One is too small a number to achieve greatness. No accomplishment of real value has ever been achieved by a human being working alone.
— John C. Maxwell
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Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of…
— Aristotle
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Quick note here: if this crush-slash-swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach, if youve never had a similar experience, then you should come to…
— Mark Z. Danielewski
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Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what…
— Bruce Lee
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Small businesses are vital contributors to our economy. They are the economic engine that is creating jobs, exploring innovation, and expanding opportunities for Americans in…
— Allyson Schwartz
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The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small.
— Witter Bynner
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Never concede to evil.... When we concede to evil, even in a small way, we feed it, and it grows stronger.
— David Farland
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Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality of votes. South…
— George Washington
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The true test is, whether the object be of a local character, and local use; or, whether it be of general benefit to the states.…
— Joseph Story
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The awful discretion, which a court of impeachments must necessarily have, to doom to honor or to infamy the most confidential and the most distinguished…
— Alexander Hamilton
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The people of the U.S. owe their Independence & their liberty, to the wisdom of descrying in the minute tax of 3 pence on tea,…
— James Madison
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Each of the Iraqi children killed by the United States was our child. Each of the prisoners tortured in Abu Ghraib was our comrade. Each…
— Arundhati Roy
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We are fighting to vindicate the principle that small nationalities are not to be crushed in defiance of international good faith at the arbitrary will…
— H. H. Asquith
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