Quotes of: Small-things Keyword

The life spills over, some days. She cannot be at rest, Wishes she could explode Like that red tree— The one that bursts into fire All this week. Senses her infinite smallness But can’t seize it, Recognizes the folly of desire, The folly of withd...

Love

sometimes you cant understand why things happen the way they do.. unwillingly were forced to ride the waves.. and thats hard for us humans, considering were programmed to make sense of the chaos, rationalize with the unrational.. and right when you f...

William James Peter O'Brien

Do well the little things now; so shall great things come to thee by and by asking to be done.

Persian

I've learned that many of the worst things lead to the best things, that no great thing is achieved without a couple of bad, bad things on the way to them, and that the bad things that happen to you bring, in some cases, the good things.

Mike Nichols

How about this?” she retorted, her voice deceptively flirtatious, and in that small, stolen moment in his mind, he quickly spun and grasped her by the small of her back, pulled her close into to him, and made her his. And maybe she resisted at firs...

The End of Summer: Thirteen Tales of Halloween

Every now and then, a small plane arrives from nowhere – as tiny as the head of a match-stick – it flies around my head, buzzing, like a pesky little fly, then disappears into my ear. Later, it lands on my throbbing heart. Excited tourists get ou...

Flamingos in the Ashtray: 25 Bizarro Short Stories

Gradually it was disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Ins...

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956

The fear of meeting the opposition of envy, or the illiberality of ignorance is, no doubt, the frequent cause of preventing many ingenious men from ushering opinions into the world which deviate from common practice. Hence for want of energy, the you...

A Treatise on the Improvement of Canal Navigation: Exhibiting the Numerous Advantages to Be Derived from Small Canals and Boats of Two to Five Feet Wide Containing from Two to Five Tons Burthen: With a Description of the Machinery for Facilitating...

The earth isn’t spinning because you told it to do so. Your intestines aren’t digesting by your command. You’re made up of a trillion cells who don’t ask your permission before offering their rakats. And we think submission is applying strict...

Michael Muhammad Knight

1 Cor 3:15a If any man’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. Number Five is one many deem unimportant, but the apostles and I do not. I tell you now the results of that day will last for all...

Billy Witt

There is a very good organization called "Make a Wish Foundation" that helps make a dying child's wishes come true. People go out of their way and work together to create an unbelievable lasting memory for a deserving person. What just dawned on me w...

JohnA Passaro

Not the spectacular things are the important things - the unspectacular things are the important things, especially in the future.

Dieter Rams

She closed her eyes and prayed to whichever small ineffectual god protects the hearts of women.

City of Darkness

A double bed can seem awfully small if your'e sharing it with someone you don't love." -Misia

Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky

It was interesting the way a small hate could grow inside a big hate and take it over.

Days of Blood & Starlight

I just want to die knowing that I’ve made a difference in the world... or at least a difference to someone, no matter how small the difference.

Divided

It is so small secret that many writers are also alcoholics, drug addicts, sexual deviants, or habitual wearers of blue jeans (in some cases all of the above).

Editorial

He has seen enough of daily evil to be thankful for small goods that come his way.

The Elephant Man

When good Americans die, they go to Paris,' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette.

Embrace the Night

That was the nature of presents. You kept them in the giver's stead. They were a small part of that person to keep.

Exchange

grappling with some small understanding of this place, this time, we're in" my poem "In a BishopsWood Clearing

Following Father