Small Quotes
8386 Small quotes by 4853 unique authors
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You have to learn to love the small things in life, like a hot bath. You have to love the small things, when you have…
— Joe Abercrombie
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My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles,…
— David Miliband
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Throughout our history, the words of the Declaration have inspired immigrants from around the world to set sail to our shores. These immigrants have helped…
— George W. Bush
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My name is Patrick Fitzgerald ... I like to tear the tops off small animals.
— Karl Rove
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The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To…
— Plautus
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Listening to the doves in Alfred, Georgia, and having neither the right nor the permission to enjoy it because in that place mist, doves, sunlight,…
— Toni Morrison
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Heaven will ask things of you at some point, perhaps small things at first. You must be ready.
— Marshall Vian Summers
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The natural equipment to accomplish some small part of the meaner ambitions distinguishing able men from dead ones. In the last analysis ability is commonly…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.
— Russell Baker
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We live on this very small and fragile planet: a world in which there is poverty and injustice is never going to be a safe…
— Hilary Benn
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A small profit it better than a big loss
— Ron Rash
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There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles... but there is one order of beauty which seems…
— George Eliot
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There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men…
— Claude Adrien Helvetius
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I do not want to die... until I have faithfully made the most of my talent and cultivated the seed that was placed in me,…
— Kathe Kollwitz
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Egolessness is contentment. Egoless, you don't expect anything, and just a small child smiles at you, but it is so beautiful. What else could you…
— Rajneesh
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I've made a number of independent films that didn't receive theatrical distribution, that a lot of people haven't heard of, and as a result, I've…
— William Mapother
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Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine…
— Robert Browning
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How one walks through the world, the endless small adjustments of balance, is affected by the shifting weights of beautiful things.
— Elaine Scarry
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I didn't so much think I needed to address the shooting need. What we needed was somebody who could come in and play the two-three…
— Joe Dumars
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The First Lady asked me how many people passed through the White House on tours. When I told her thousands did, she said they should…
— Clark M. Clifford
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