Small Quotes

8386 Small quotes by 4853 unique authors

Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it. — Alexandra David-Neel
Neglecting small things under the pretext of wanting to accomplish large ones is the excuse of a coward. — Alexandra David-Neel
Listen: there was once a king sitting on his throne. Around Him stood great and wonderfully beautiful columns ornamented with ivory, bearing the banners of… — Hildegard of Bingen
Many times I wondered whether my achievement was worth the loneliness I experienced, but now I realize the price was small. — Gordon Parks
Our revolution is like Wikipedia, okay? Everyone is contributing content, [but] you don't know the names of the people contributing the content. This is exactly… — Wael Ghonim
As a general rule, man strives to avoid labor. Love for work is not at all an inborn characteristic: it is created by economic pressure… — Leon Trotsky
The lowest stage of humanity is experienced when the individual must labour for a small pittance of wages from others. — Robert Owen
I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it,… — Frank O'Connor
The trouble with integers is that we have examined only the very small ones. Maybe all the exciting stuff happens at really big numbers, ones… — Ronald Graham
When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are… — Humphry Davy
No self-respecting small businessman with a brain in the right place would ever employ a lady of child-bearing age. — Godfrey Bloom
To be physically fit is just a small aspect. You can be a beautiful physical specimen, but you're empty as far as what it takes… — Lee Haney
Let yourself be enchanted in small ways. — Guy Kawasaki
Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of… — Candace Bushnell
In the summer there are twelve cottonwoods around the pool, which in the winter become an elevated thicket. There is also a courtyard with a… — Donald Judd
We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Childrens Hospital. They had a golf… — Tom Kite
It is only in times of social dissolution, as in the last age of the small Semitic states, when men and their gods were alike… — William Robertson Smith
Many people think that when we practice agriculture, nature is helping us in our efforts to grow food. This is an exclusively human-centered viewpoint... we… — Masanobu Fukuoka
There really are two Americas, one for the grifter class and one for everybody else. In everybody-else land, the world of small businesses and wage-earning… — Matt Taibbi
These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections… — Childe Hassam
And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan… — Fred Thompson
Firms are a bit concerned about things like oil prices and US growth but actually the change (in firms expectations) is quite small so I… — Peter Morgan
Well, on lots of small things we could have done better, but on all the big things we called it right. You should make less… — Ken Livingstone
After working for 14 years on Wall Street and growing up in a family with strong roots in small business, I know how important the… — Ellen Tauscher
A republican form of government, without intelligence in the people, must be, on a vast scale, what a mad-house, without superintendent or keepers, would be… — Horace Mann

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