Small Quotes
8386 Small quotes by 4853 unique authors
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There are grander and more sublime landscapes - to me. There are more compelling cultures. But what appeals to me about central Montana is that…
— Sam Abell
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the…
— Sam Abell
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I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.
— Ian Anderson
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The flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players.
— Ian Anderson
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I think artists who are attracted to working on the Net will adjust their work to the capabilities of a very small screen.
— Laurie Anderson
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When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
— Maya Angelou
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Play hard, work hard, love hard. . . .The bottom line for me is to live life to the fullest in the here-and-now instead of…
— Michael Shermer
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Most soulish believers assume an attitude of self-righteousness, though often it is scarcely detectable. They hold tenaciously to their minute opinions we ought to lay…
— Watchman Nee
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There are only three measurements that tell you nearly everything you need to know about your organization's overall performance: employee engagement, customer satisfaction, and cash…
— Jack Welch
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My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation.
— Mark Twain
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I'm a mother with two small children, so I don't take as much crap as I used to.
— Pamela Anderson
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He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings in speaking of…
— Laozi
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Therefore, if a great kingdom humbles itself before a small kingdom, it shall make that small kingdom its prize. And if a small kingdom humbles…
— Laozi
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I make a distinction between Buddhism with a Capital 'B' and buddhism with a small 'b'. Sri Lanka has the former, in which the state…
— Sulak Sivaraksa
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The beginner's humility and openness lead to exploration. Exploration leads to accomplishment. All of it begins at the beginning, with the first small and scary…
— Julia Cameron
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In the time that I have been acquainted with this region I have become increasingly aware of it as a testament of water, the origin…
— W S Merwin
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Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast.
— William Shakespeare
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house…
— Abraham Cowley
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Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothing but small beer in it,…
— Charles Lamb
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There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand.…
— Walt Kelly
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Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well understood by our…
— Alexander Hamilton
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While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain…
— Aberjhani
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The cabin of a small yacht is truly a wonderful thing; not only will it shelter you from a tempest, but from the other troubles…
— Lewis Francis Herreshoff
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I was so small, I wasn't even going to go back out for my junior year. But my mom and dad sat me down and…
— Mark Buehrle
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But what was most remarkable, Broadway being three miles long, and the booths lining each side of it, in every booth there was a roast…
— Frederick Marryat
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