Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.
Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.
It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better.
Dignity has no price, when someone starts making small concessions, in the end, life loses all meaning.
Last night I dreamed of a small consolation enjoyed only by the blind: Nobody knows the trouble I've not seen!
I was always told that I was too small, too skinny, too slow, not tough enough, and I never ever believed what people told me.
It seems to limit you; when you're working in an office, you're a creature in a small cell under somebody's supervision and surveillance.
London is a small place, and it is very incestuous. People know where you live. Everybody is sort of on top of each other.
Anyone who thinks that they are too small to make a difference has never tried to fall asleep with a mosquito in the room.
Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.
The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
Rigid traditions capture souls prisons of spiritual thought man’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.
I've become fascinated by the idea that it's really achievable to make two or three small improvements in a week and by the end of the year, it's 150 improvements.
And that's another reason to make this movie: We can put plays on film now, at a relatively small cost, and they will reach an audience they would never have reached otherwise.
Human beings cannot comprehend very large or very small numbers. It would be useful for us to acknowledge that fact.
My house is very clean apart from a very small part of it that looks as if we've been burgled, which is my office.
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.
If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
The people in Dominica and the small communities where I were had no idea who I was, and there's no better security than that.
Small businesses were slower than large businesses in adopting broadband. One of the reasons was they were concerned with putting their customer lists online or in the cloud.
I used to sing in the church choir. People would say it was unusual for such a small girl to have such a big voice. They would say, 'She sounds like she's grown.'
