Smallness Quotes

58 quotes by 55 authors

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness. — John Updike
You will have to make up for the smallness of your size by your courage and selfless devotion to duty, for it is not life… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah
The chief proof of man's real greatness lies in his perception of his own smallness. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I dream of flight, not to be as the angels are, but to rise above the smallness of it all. The smallnesss that I am.… — Jeanette Winterson
I felt despair. The wordâ€™s overused and banalified now, despair, but itâ€™s a serious word, and Iâ€™m using it seriously. For me it denotes a… — David Foster Wallace
There came to him an image of manâ€™s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all manâ€™s life was like a tiny… — Thomas Wolfe
So many things in the world have happened before. But it's like they never did. Every new thing that happens to a person, it's a… — Louise Erdrich
I might try that one thing, you know, that thing people do when their eyes get all wet and stupidâ€”whatâ€™s it called? Crying? Or NOT.… — Laini Taylor
New Yorkers love the bigness -- the skyscrapers, the freedom, the lights. But they also love it when they can carve out some smallness for… — David Levithan
The point of life is to transcend the smallness of the finite self by identifying with things that last. — Larry Brilliant
Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was… — Erik Erikson
I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now… — Ellen McLaughlin
The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity. — Archibald Hill
Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound. — Jan Morris
I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness… — Pieter Zeeman
CHAPTER 1 Girl who ran My name is Jade for those who dont know, now know. And this is my life story, in a way.… — Jade
For I am convinced, that the authors of this law would never obtain an act to raise so trifling a sum as it must do,… — John Dickinson
Should you find yourself the victim of other peoples bitterness, ignorance, smallness or insecurities, remember this, things could be much worse. You could be one… — Unkown

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