Small Quotes
8386 Small quotes by 4853 unique authors
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
— Irving Babbitt
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A small step in a good direction.
— Helen Hunt
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In any series of elements to be controlled, a selected small fraction, in terms of numbers of elements, always accounts for a large fraction in…
— Vilfredo Pareto
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And then, the Earth being small, mankind will migrate into space, and will cross the airless Saharas which separate planet from planet and sun from…
— William Winwood Reade
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The machine may even carry mail is special cases. But the useful load will be very small. The machines will eventually be fast, they will…
— Octave Chanute
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Automobiles will start to decline almost as soon as the last shot is fired in World War II. The name of Igor Sikorsky will be…
— Unknown Author
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Why does a salmon rise? Why does a small boy cross the street just to kick a tin can?
— Lee Wulff
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I don't believe consciousness is generated in the brain any more than television programs are made inside my TV. The box is too small.
— Terence McKenna
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It can be very intense being an actor; it can be quite a small world. Then you speak to your friend who is a scientist…
— Felicity Jones
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Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is small need there is small use; it is obvious,…
— Dogen
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If the majority of the "spiritual market" is drawn to prerational magic and myth, how do you reach the small group who are involved in…
— Ken Wilber
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Bravely overcoming one small fear gives you the courage to take on the next.
— Daisaku Ikeda
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Fiction, with its preference for what is small and might elsewhere seem irrelevant; its facility for smuggling us into another skin and allowing us to…
— David Malouf
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I went to a public high school that had a very small graduating class of 156 students. I lived a relatively normal childhood until I…
— Jesse McCartney
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They are this horrible thing where you are distorted. The chin is too big, the head is too small. No, this is electronic masturbation.
— Karl Lagerfeld
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Even in such a time of madness as the late twenties, a great many man in Wall Street remained quite sane. But they also remained…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Remember that the biggest thing you could do today is a small act of kindness.
— Cory Booker
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Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop of alcohol. It…
— Henning Mankell
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The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.
— Sue Monk Kidd
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I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.
— M.C. Escher
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The fact is that we have been consistent in a predictable 60-year commitment to national security, while our friends and former enemies - by intent…
— Victor Davis Hanson
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An education capable of saving humanity is no small undertaking; it involves the spiritual development of man, the enhancement of his value as an individual,…
— Maria Montessori
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The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.
— Maria Montessori
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Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the…
— Heather O'Neill
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For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.
— Thomas a Kempis
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