Smaller Quotes

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The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?'… — Thomas Hardy
John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from now on this… — Paul Cornell
The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your… — Thomas Merton
I feel myself shriveling along with my world, getting smaller and harder. I'm turning into a rock, and in some ways that's good, because rocks… — Susan Beth Pfeffer
I think this is when most people give up on their stories. They come out of college wanting to change the world, wanting to get… — Donald Miller
It was much easier for him now that he was smaller to negotiate his way through his crammed shop but he still tried to swagger… — Cornelia Funke
How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards. — Mary Karr
He hunched his shoulders and tried to make himself smaller in the seat. He wanted to disappear, to fade away, not to exist. — Lois Lowry
YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the… — Rabindranath Tagore
The difference between ordinary and extra-ordinary is so often just simply that little word - extra. And for me, I had always grown up with… — Bear Grylls
So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small… — John Kennedy Toole
And I imagine... with great pleasure... all the horrible stirrings of the nonmanifested to bring forth the scream which creates the universe. Maybe one day… — Alejandro Jodorowsky
Things between us were dissolving like an ice cub in a glass: the smaller it got, the faster it disappeared. — Lorrie Moore
The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized. — Raymond E. Feist
There is a tonic strength, in the hour of sorrow and affliction, in escaping from the world and society and getting back to the simple… — William George Jordan
Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, our world contracts as our problems and preoccupations loom large.… — Daniel Goleman
Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose — Winston Churchill
Dragons have sharp talons. Sometimes I donâ€™t get out of the way quickly enough. (Sebastian) Maybe you should fight smaller dragons. (Channon) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I sat there watching… — Richard Brautigan
When you reach the little house, the place your journey started, you will recognize it, although it will seem much smaller than you remember. Walk… — Neil Gaiman

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