Smaller Quotes

819 quotes by 720 authors

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
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
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. — Aesop
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
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
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
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
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
Don't overstate Fox News. It's still much smaller than the least of the network niches. — Tom Brokaw
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
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
Most of the time, you find that the smaller the budget, the more the project is about something substantive. — Robert Carlyle
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
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
Warren Buffett pays taxes on a smaller percentage of his billions in income than his cleaning lady. — Eric Alterman
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
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
Negative thoughts are not protecting you. They are making you smaller. — Robert Kiyosaki
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
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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