Quotes of: Small-things Keyword

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy.

Ellen Tauscher

Living in a small town, one of the keys to survival was your imagination.

Nick Nolte

In its beginnings, music was merely chamber music, meant to be listened to in a small space by a small audience.

Gustav Mahler

I'm a big advocate of the power of positive thinking, particularly for small businesses.

Kevin Plank

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.

Rosanne Cash

I perceived or thought of the Light of God and in it suspended one small mote (or millions of motes to only one of which was my small mind directed), glittering white because of the individual ray from the Light which both held and lit it...And the r...

The Letters of J.R.R. Tolkien

Here be dragons to be slain, here be rich rewards to gain; If we perish in the seeking, why, how small a thing is death!

Catholic Tales and Christian Songs

He said that he felt that there was a book hidden between us. Some small thing lodged between a rib or a summer. and He wanted to find it.

Dandelions That have Held your Breath

I'm stuck somewhere a small island in the middle of the Atlantic where I'm alone. Because in France, they're like, 'No, you're not like us, you're not a French guy.' And in America, they're like, 'You're not like us.' I'm really alone in my little th...

Louis Leterrier

I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

The Return of the King

Again I resume the long lesson: how small a thing can be pleasing, how little in this hard world it takes to satisfy the mind and bring it to its rest.

Sabbaths

When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point- of-view is seldom necessary.

Small Gods

This is the only advice I offer you. Pick the small thing, and carry it on. Let it change your life.

Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.

The Loved One

Let even an affectionate Goliath get himself tied to a small tender thing, dreading to hurt it by pulling, and dreading still more to snap the cord, and which of the two, pray, will be master?

Silas Marner

...the only way to get through life is to laugh your way through it. you either have to laugh or cry. I prefer to laugh. Crying gives me a headache.

Small and Simple Things

Finally, mercifully, the spasms subsided, as the old man’s head lolled back, his mouth hanging open, taking in deep, ragged breaths of stale, recirculated air.

Small Things

People are wonderful. Each one has a story, each something to give, each knows something interesting, something that can make your life richer.

Small and Simple Things

Someone once wrote that a novel should deliver a series of small astonishments. I get the same thing spending an hour with you.

We Were Liars

Doing things for yourself (self-preservation) are ok in in small doses and when necessary but over-burdening you life with your own self will weaken your heart, soul connectivity with others

Paul Isaacs