The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies.
I came from Winnipeg and a small-town background, and I wouldn't say a depressed area, but Winnipeg has never been a rich area like Toronto.
A city is a crazy concrete jungle whose people at the end of each day somehow make a small step ahead against terrible odds.
The higher someone's profile, the easier it is for a defendant to trade him up to the feds. Mr. Big is always a better catch than Mr. Small.
When two elements combine and form more than one compound, the masses of one element that react with a fixed mass of the other are in the ratio of small whole numbers.
My mother tried to teach me when I was a small child to sing but failed because of my inability to carry a tune.
All historians generalize from particulars. And often, if you look at a historian's footnotes, the number of examples of specific cases is very, very small.
I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.
The countries of Europe are too small to guarantee their peoples the necessary prosperity and social development. The European states must constitute themselves into a federation.
My grandmother was a chef, and she taught me to cook. One day I want a restaurant, a small Italian grill. That's my aspiration.
The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California.
Fishing the small streams of New Hampshire is a pastime that combines hiking, map reading, and bushwhacking - plenty of it.
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.
And thus we see that by small means the Lord can bring about great things" - 1 Nephi 16:29
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.
