Tiny Quotes
1388 quotes by 1044 authors
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The seeds are tiny, unborn things, and I resent them. They'll be planted and they'll grow into exactly what they're meant to be.
— Lauren DeStefano
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Not one of your pertinent ancestors was squashed, devoured, drowned, starved, stranded, stuck fast, untimely wounded, or otherwise deflected from its life's quest of delivering…
— Bill Bryson
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Each of us is leading a difficult life, and when we meet people we are seeing only a tiny part of the thinnest veneer of…
— Derren Brown
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What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.
— Alain de Botton
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You're a Daniels and a Walker. That means you're 99% fine stubbornness, tenacity and resilience combined", Tara said. "And the other 1%?" Mia asked as…
— Jill Shalvis
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Throughout history, poverty is the normal condition of man. Advances which permit this norm to be exceeded — here and there, now and then —…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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But it was pointless, it was stupid; he thought about thoughtless things. If I were a seabird . . . but how could you be…
— Iain Banks
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Sometimes I wonder if he has a philosophy. Maybe even a worldview. I'd like to sit down with him and pick his brain, just a…
— Isaac Marion
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He let out a sigh. With my head there against his chest, I could faintly make out the sound of his heart beating through his…
— Kiera Cass
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It's not John who wants to cut his mother into tiny pieces, it's Mr. Monster. See? I feel better already.
— Dan Wells
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When his phone rang, he had to dig through his pocket to find it, and his fingers brushed against a pair of tiny earbuds he…
— Ally Carter
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When the woman took the earbud, he didn't ask another question. She was a woman on a mission as she placed the tiny device in…
— Ally Carter
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We were awash in tiny attentions. Small gestures, words, empathies thought to be extinct came to life... We discovered the color of each other's eyes.
— Jerry Spinelli
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An incentive is a bullet, a key: an often tiny object with astonishing power to change a situation
— Steven Levitt
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She had what it took: great hair, a profound understanding of strategic lip gloss, the intelligence to understand the world and a tiny secret interior…
— Douglas Adams
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I didn’t want the person standing there, beside the bed, to have the same face I’d found so attractive at the airport. But you were…
— Lucy Christopher
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There were tiny stars behind my eyelids, a whole galaxy of tiny, spinning stars.
— Lucy Christopher
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I wrapped my arms around me as tightly as I could, and stared up at the stars. Had I not been so cold and wanting…
— Lucy Christopher
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A 'sign of weakness' for a male celebrity is being found to be unfaithful, or unkind to an employee, or having crashed their car while…
— Caitlin Moran
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Captain Niall, having apparently resigned himself to losing his quarry, was savaging her horsehair petticoat into teeny, tiny shreds. "Really, what did my poor petticoat…
— Gail Carriger
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