Small Quotes

8386 Small quotes by 4853 unique authors

There are no small steps in great affairs. — Jean Francois Paul de Gondi
For those who say you're thinking too big... be smart enough not to listen. For those who say the odds are too small ... be… — Eric Schmidt
He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man. — Mencius
First organize the inner, then organize the outer ... First organize the great, then organize the small. First organize yourself, and then organize others. — Zhuge Liang
Governing a large state is like boiling a small fish. — Laozi
The "germ," wherever gathered, has ever been for me, "the germ of a story," and most of the stories strained to shape under my hand… — Henry James
How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair! — Edmund Waller
It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the… — Leonardo da Vinci
Weighing benefits against costs is the way most people make decisions - and the way most businesses make decisions, if they want to stay in… — Thomas Sowell
On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition -… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
There is no more reason to believe that man descended from an inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended… — William Jennings Bryan
Asian Homo erectus died without issue and does not enter our immediate ancestry (for we evolved from African populations); Neanderthal people were collateral cousins, perhaps… — Stephen Jay Gould
Let the revolting distinction of rich and poor disappear once and for all, the distinction of great and small, of masters and valets, of governors… — Francois-Noel Babeuf
The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small… — Mary Wortley Montagu
The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America,… — C. Wright Mills
Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and glance… — Barbara Holland
I was raised in a small town. It was so small that our school taught driver's education and sex education in the same car. — Mary Sue Terry
One really ought to be afraid of self-torture. But it tempted me. It begged. The dark place that my mind was fast becoming blends, in… — Marya Hornbacher
What I know is like the leaves on that tree; what I teach is only a small part. But I offer it to all with… — Gautama Buddha
We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Now every girl is expected to have Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a… — Tina Fey
Vacation time offers the unique opportunity to pause before the thought-provoking spectacles of nature, a wonderful "book" within reach of everyone, adults and children. In… — Pope Benedict XVI
The great religious ages were notable for their indifference to human rights... not only for acquiescence in poverty, inequality, exploitation and oppression, but also for… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. — William Sloane Coffin
Rule number one is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule number two is, it's all small stuff. — Mike Davies

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