Small Quotes
8386 Small quotes by 4853 unique authors
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Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.
— Lord Byron
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God gives all men all earth to love, but since man's heart is small, ordains for each one spot shall prove belov?d over all.
— Rudyard Kipling
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Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I…
— Hanna Reitsch
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Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
— William James
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A sweet thing, perspective - a chance to see your enemies so small.
— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
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If the Great Commission is true, our plans are not too big; they are too small.
— Unknown Author
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The conservative goal has been the Third Worldization of the United States: an increasingly underemployed, lower-wage work-force; a small but growing moneyed class that pays…
— Michael Parenti
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It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what…
— Samson Raphael Hirsch
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If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into…
— Kevin Systrom
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Almost all systems of economic thought are premised on the idea of continued economic growth, which would be fine and dandy if we lived on…
— George Monbiot
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Whatever peace I know rests in the natural world, in feeling myself a part of it, even in a small way.
— May Sarton
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However, the small probability of a similar encounter [of the earth with a comet], can become very great in adding up over a huge sequence…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
— Maya Angelou
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There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual accumulation of numerous small ideas.
— Diane Setterfield
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This gardener will be out in the very early morning and from late afternoon, attentive to small changes in the quality of light and the…
— Susan Hill
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In Japan, I took part in a tea ceremony. You go into a small room, tea is served, and that's it really, except that everything…
— Okakura Kakuzo
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For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares…
— Casey Affleck
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Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller.
— Herb Kelleher
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A contact with an extraterrestrial civilization is the greatest challenge for mankind in the Third Millennium. We would finally realize that we are indeed not…
— Michael Hesemann
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