We've seen a lot of people self-destruct because of a small taste of success.
The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love.
You are as big as your enemies and as small as your fear.
Knuckleball pitching is a very small fraternity.
Small conspiracies fail and large conspiracies are betrayed.
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
My wife is short, and my two kids are also small.
I like to play small clubs.
With small means the Lord accomplishes His marvelous work.
Where micro-finance focuses on small loans to individual, low-income women, think of Acumen Fund more like a venture capital fund.
I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.
The young of the town, preoccupied with their own germinating angst, which each possessed in varying degree (though few were ever fully aware of its existence), felt no particular connection to the land, its people, its structures, or its history. As...
valentine my friends stitched it up with golden thread like a red satin pillow they gave me other whole ones too roses and charms and red candles milagros to repair the real one they told me i was no longer allowed to give it away a pretty pin cushio...
I honestly think in order to be a writer, you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here? Let's think of reverence as awe, as presence in and openness to the world. The alternative is that we stultify, we shut down. T...
This is a story, told the way you say stories should be told: Somebody grew up, fell in love, and spent a winter with her lover in the country. This, of course, is the barest outline, and futile to discuss. It’s as pointless as throwing birdseed on...
So many things that are so dramatic or exciting when you read about them actually happen so simply and quietly. We humans like to consider ourselves important to creation and to the world, and we expect that whenever death comes it should be with a c...
Naturally—and why should I not admit this—I have occasionally wondered to myself how things might have turned out in the long run.... I only speculate this now because in the light of subsequent events, it could well be argued that in making my d...
The thing people don't understand about an army is its great, unpunctuated wastes of inaction: you have to scavenge for food, you are camped out somewhere with a rising water level because your mad capitaine says so, you are shifted abruptly in the m...
I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.
There's an amazing intimate feeling in a small club but an insane rush playing a stadium or festival.
The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
