Quotes of: Small-things Keyword

There are so many awful things in this world, but I wanted readers to share with me the small, beautiful, enjoyable things. Things like cute clothes, beautiful art and pretty flowers; items that are overflowing with beauty. If you just become obsesse...

Novala Takemoto

Venture a small fish to catch a much greater one.

English

That is the difference between great men and small, we great are willing to do the hard things, the uncomfortable things to ensure we succeed.

Discovering Aberration

My poetry is the highest valuable thing I have to make you smile...

Small Portion: a little taste of poetry

The only thing crueler than a cage so small that a bird can’t fly is a cage so large that a bird thinks it can fly.

You

I love all things, not only the grand but the infinitely small: thimble, spurs, plates, flower vases.....

Pablo Neruda

There's only one thing worse than a droopy, round, lace-trimmed, too small, too short, mosquito net with holes… the exact same thing in pink.

T.K. Naliaka

I'm grateful that on a lot of casts I've gained friends for life. But it's more of a rare thing than a normal thing. I have a small group of friends, and I just, uh, feel fulfilled by the people that are in my life.

Matt Czuchry

We lust after the material things in life, then in a blink of an eye; the life which was once given is taken; is there a point in stressing over the small stuff.

Epiphana Lewis

I'm not a teen anymore, but growing up, some of my favorite things were, like, 'Twin Peaks,' which wasn't even really my time, and this is one of the things, like a weird, quirky, small town mystery.

Troian Bellisario

We're giants, and we're unaware of things that are too small for us to see.

Louie Schwartzberg

Love is such a fleeting emotion. It's such a small part of the things you do in your life.

Nellie McKay

Ridges of muscle on his stomach rose under his skin like divisions on a slab of chocolate. He held her close by the light of an oil lamp, and he shone as though he had been polished with a high-wax body polish.

The God of Small Things

You might think what I tell you next is all a dream, or that I've imagined it. I can't help it if that's what you think, but I swear it's true. Sometimes the truest things are the hardest to believe.

A Small Free Kiss in the Dark

Remember, the most common thing about common sense is how uncommon it is.

Think Big, Act Small: How America's Most Profitable Companies Keep the Start-up Spirit Alive

If God places a child before you, and you are too busy to wield either a positive or negative influence...you just did the later! You communicated that the child doesn't matter and isn't important.

Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing

...while God has done his part in creating a world capable of providing what we need, we have not done our part in the stewardship of it, in seeing that it gets to the end of the line, to the poorest and neediest--the children.

Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing

But when adults speak up for the vulnerable and the weak, working and demanding that safety and respect prevail, God's little lambs are protected and nourished. They know they are not abandoned; they are loved. And the world becomes a little more lik...

Too Small to Ignore: Why Children Are the Next Big Thing

One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only.

Anuj Somany

Small children give you headache; big children heartache.

Russian

I felt despair. The word’s overused and banalified now, despair, but it’s a serious word, and I’m using it seriously. For me it denotes a simple admixture — a weird yearning for death combined with a crushing sense of my own smallness and fut...

A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments