Smallest Quotes

618 Smallest quotes by 476 unique authors

The smallest bird cannot light upon the greatest tree without sending a shock to its most distant fiber. — Lew Wallace
As an exercise in appreciation, try for one hour to feel grateful for every single thing you find yourself doing. When you read, be grateful… — Zelig Pliskin
Therefore, we know about God that He loves and shows pity on His creatures, and also that He is the source of wisdom and knows… — Dorotheus of Gaza
Fascism is the most inherently evil political ideology that man has ever devised. Wherever we see even the smallest sapling of fascism growing, we should… — Derek R. Audette
Probably if half a kilogram [of radium] were in a bottle on that table it would kill us all. It would almost certainly destroy our… — William Crookes
O Nature, and O soul of man! how far beyond all utterance are your linked analogies; not the smallest atom stirs or lives on matter,… — Herman Melville
First, it must be a pleasure to study the human body the most miraculous masterpiece of nature and to learn about the smallest vessel and… — Rudolf Virchow
I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Judge not of actions by their mere effect; Dive to the center, and the cause detect. Great deeds from meanest springs may take their course,… — Alexander Pope
Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: / How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? / The smallest bit of nature is… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The smallest errors are always the best. — Moliere
Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance — Oscar Wilde
Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know… — Thomas Carlyle
The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands. — Charles Simmons
There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger. — Anaxagoras
There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent… — Alberto Moravia
Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the… — Leon Battista Alberti
The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions. — Frederick Sommer
At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have made… — Hokusai
Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden.... Creating… — Julie Moir Messervy
A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults. — Napoleon Bonaparte
No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first. — Laura Ingalls Wilder
No Zionist can forgo the smallest portion of the Land Of Israel. [A] Jewishstate in part [of Palestine] is not an end, but a beginning… — David
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning… — Karen Thompson Walker
The magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details. — Gary Ryan

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