Smaller Quotes

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I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator,… — Leo Tolstoy
...Landsman doesn't buy that. Bina never stopped wanting to redeem the world. She just let the world she was trying to redeem get smaller and… — Michael Chabon
I thought everyone would be familiar with this figure: if I'd studied a thing in school I assumed it was general knowledge. I hadn't yet… — Margaret Atwood
There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in… — Sylvia Plath
We gather at night to celebrate being human. Sometimes we call out low to the tambourine. Fish drink the sea, but the sea does not… — Unknown Author
Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the… — Dean Koontz
Room of Requirement, of course! Surpassed itself, hasn't it? the Carrows were chasing me, and I knew I had just one chance for a hideout:… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
From space, astronauts can see people making love as a tiny speck of light. Not light, exactly, but a glow that could be confused for… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Maybe in the general scheme of things he couldn't find any meaning in life, but on a smaller scale it was okay. Not always, but… — Etgar Keret
Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies.… — Stephen King
The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. — Friedrich Nietzsche
It was much pleasanter at home," thought poor Alice, "when one wasn't always growing larger and smaller, and being ordered about by mice and rabbits.… — Lewis Carroll
We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows… — Barack Obama
Face red, but brave in spite of it, Ethan offered an even smaller box. My hands shook as i opened it. Set in a gold… — Ellen Hopkins
This is not just a simple story of "money can't buy happiness." Or maybe that's just what it is. And if it is, why shouldn't… — Deb Caletti
Well, it's New Year's now but I don't feel that way anymore. I wonder if you do either. Something's happening to me. It's like I'm… — Sarah Dessen
As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Aquamarines grew with emeralds, Claire told me. But emeralds were fragile and always broke into smaller pieces, while aquamarines were stronger, grew in huge crystals… — Janet Fitch
Imagine a poem written with such enormous three-dimensional words that we had to invent a smaller word to reference each of the big ones; that… — N.D. Wilson

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