Smaller Quotes
819 quotes by 720 authors
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In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes…
— Charles Babbage
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Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support…
— Theodore Bikel
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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
— Aesop
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Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and…
— Orlando Bloom
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But make no mistake, the President will find in our new majority the voice of the American people as they've expressed it tonight: standing on…
— John Boehner
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My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer…
— John Bolton
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With every job I've gotten, I've bought myself something. When 'Glee' was picked up, I rented a piano for the year. For smaller victories, I'll…
— Dianna Agron
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Generally speaking I would say I enjoy the smaller films more because there's a less sense of pressure and often the material is more unusual.
— Jeff Bridges
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Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches.
— Tom Brokaw
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The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some…
— Phillips Brooks
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In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns:…
— Christopher Alexander
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Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive.
— Robert Carlyle
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Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and…
— Helena Bonham Carter
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One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried…
— Nick Clegg
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Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady.
— Eric Alterman
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What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like…
— Laozi
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Well I can't rightly say (which player hit the ball hardest), but the ones (home runs by) Ruth hit got smaller quicker.
— Walter Johnson
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Negative thoughts are not protecting you. They are making you smaller.
— Robert Kiyosaki
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It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite…
— Winston Churchill
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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