Small Quotes

It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.

Small use it will be to save democracy for the race if we cannot save the race for democracy.

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.

The universe extends beyond the mind of man, and is more complex than the small sample one can study.

I made a small fortune. I made a lot of money and I made a lot of other people wealthy.

Washington state's 2nd Congressional District is a major producer of small fruit crops such as raspberries and strawberries. This research center is doing important work to help farmers enhance the quality, yield and marketability of their small fruit crops.

I like throwing snowballs at small children.

A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.

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

A small silence came between us, as precise as a picture hanging on the wall.

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

It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s.

One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.

It is in the nature of the New Yorker to be as topical as possible, on a level that is often small in scale and playful in intention.

God's creatures, great and small... eat them one, eat them all.

How the sting of poverty, or small means, is gone when one keeps house for one's own comfort and not for the comfort of one's neighbors.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

Don't be a time manager, be a priority manager. Cut your major goals into bite-sized pieces. Each small priority or requirement on the way to ultimate goal become a mini goal in itself.

When I heard Monk in person in 1955, he was playing with a quartet in a small club. The place was full of musicians, but there was no public at all.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

What does gene A do? What does gene B do? What does it do in different contexts? What's its importance? We know the answer to that for a very small number of genes, the ones that made themselves evident many years ago.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

The small Satan left and the great Satan came.

It has been popular to threaten "small islands and low-lying coasts" with scenarios of disastrous future flooding. The Maldives has been the most utilised target. We have undertaken a careful analysis of actual sea level changes in the Maldives. No rise has been recorded either in the present or the past centuries.

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.