Small Quotes

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange i...

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is ...

Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small ...

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

However weak we are, however poor, however little our faith, or however small our grace may be, our ...

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and...

We all wake up in the morning wanting to live our lives the way we know we should. But we usually do...

A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation...

When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of wha...

Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of ...

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it ma...

the Z-particle Pure energy—no mass at all. It may well be thesmallest building block in nature. Matt...

You’re telling me that CERN dugout millions of tons of earth just to smash tiny particles?”Kohler sh...

Social distance makes it all the easier to focus on small differences between groups and to put a ne...

Emotional intelligence begins to develop in the earliest years. All the small exchanges children hav...

My dad grew up in Banbridge, Northern Ireland, desperate to get to London. I grew up in London, so I...

Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound...

I guess you get pigeon-holed in Hollywood, but I'm ok with that because I've been able to do a lot. ...

Comedy can always be taken the wrong way. If I do a bit that is meant to diffuse racism or sexism, I...

If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that w...

I've had maybe 20 jobs, big and small, and I've never hated any of them. At the same time, the momen...

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the w...

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, ...

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) p...

Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

They might not need me but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight a smile as small as mine mi...

Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making ne...

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone is...

Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over wi...

I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. I...

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan...

I see a bright future for the biotechnology industry when it follows the path of the computer indust...

Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he ...

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we...

Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, ...

Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a...

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a sma...

A large social-media presence is important because it's one of the last ways to conduct cost-effecti...

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to ...

War is very sad and small life is pathetically fragile at times.

I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperat...

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give...

There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally ...

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fenc...

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the cus...

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your...

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your...

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your...

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your...

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer ...

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; an...

With two small children, I haven't had a wash since 2001 so the chance to go shopping is way down th...

Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences.

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of t...

I start from one point and go as far as possible. But, unfortunately, I never lose my way. I 'locali...

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth.

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small m...

Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause u...

My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.

I like to work in a small team. There is only 18 of us on the design team. Nobody has ever left.

A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the e...

Terrorism is like jujitsu: The small players win if they make the large player use his strength agai...

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.

As God has not made anything useless in this world, as all beings fulfill obligations or a role in t...

I grew up in a really small town with not a lot of money, and I liked singing, but it was just somet...

I'm not going to be horrible just for the sake of having attitude or make other people feel small ju...

I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's ...

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is smal...

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey ...

I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was marrie...

But Gemma, you could change the world.""That should take far more than my power," I say."True. But c...

Qaddafi is hated because he is the leader of a small country that is rich, but he uses his money to ...

It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, ...

Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connec...

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the cou...

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.

Everywhere I go, I always look for creative entrepreneurs, whether it's artisans and craftsmen, smal...

A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your p...

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once h...

Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is wher...

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant ...

It can have an enormous effect because big budget movies can have big budget perks, and small budget...

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hyp...

The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that ...

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we c...

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, e...