We are much harder on people who betray us in small ways than on people who betray others in great ones.
It is unfortunate that the poor judgment shown by a small group of young actors has tarnished the reputation of every child who has ever appeared before a camera.
And it's difficult for the average American to understand why something like that could be so important and why a little small place like Taiwan would be so important to the PRC.
These two girls start wanting the same thing because in this neighborhood, they know all the guys so well. It's a small town and all the guys are just really boring to them.
The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people, and the fool: these seven ought not to be awakened from sleep.
I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been.
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
We are trying to find drugs, small molecules, that people could take to make them disease-resistant, more youthful and healthy. Eventually we will find them.
If I'm in Italy, I'm going to have a cappuccino and two small brioches and then a mix of orange and grapefruit. I don't drink tea in Italy.
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
It's interesting if you can talk about the large moments and also the small moments to understand the deepest complexities of a man by trying to imagine who they are.
When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved.
There's a small amount of super-wealthy people that want to maintain their billions and billions of dollars. Those are the people who are really making the decisions.
Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!
No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
The People's' historic duty was to become a nameless herd and submit to the absolute control of a small pack of wily and vicious intellectuals.
How quickly we damn ourselves when we start to talk, how small and inglorious we always sound.
If you feel that favors can be returned then you are wrong, no matter how ever big or small it is, it can never be returned. Favor is always for lifetime...
Admire a small ship, but put your freight in a large one; for the larger the load, the greater will be the profit upon profit.
You must train your intuition - you must trust the small voice inside you which tells you exactly what to say, what to decide.
When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese.
