Quotes of: Small Keyword

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.

Small Gods

But then, he thought, most politicians are small and shabby, the sort of people who have been bullied at school. That's why they become politicians.

Skeleton Key

Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?

May We Be Forgiven

She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess.

Mr. Fox

Her searches after knowledge were arbitrary and without context. It was as if she were shining a small flashlight of curiosity into the dark room of the world.

Marilyn

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.

Neuromancer

...even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my misery.

Netherland

The joy of small that makes life large.

One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are

One thing I’ve learnt about humans: you can’t judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small.

The Last Dragon

Do you see? The story I have to tell is so small, of the people who stayed when everyone else fled.

Lost Everything

The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed.

Little Men

In any case, a little danger is a small price to pay for ridding a place of tourists.

In Search of King Solomon's Mines

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if People Mattered

It was raining in the small, mountainous country of Llamedos. It was always raining in Llamedos. Rain was the country's main export. It had rain mines.

Soul Music

I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places.

Snuff

Loneliness why do you accompany me if I wish to be alone?

Small Portion: a little taste of poetry

My poetry is the highest valuable thing I have to make you smile...

Small Portion: a little taste of poetry

Darling" she said with a small laugh "Love doesn’t have anything to do with this." "It has very thing to do with it!" I exclaimed.

Silver Shadows

And as I watched him, I knew that in every dark night there was, somewhere, a small light burning that could never be quenched.

Son of the Shadows

We do not choose our destinies. Yet we must… we must do our duty, no? Great or small, we must do our duty.

A Storm of Swords

How fragile we are under the sheltering sky. Behind the sheltering sky is a vast dark universe, and we're just so small.

The Sheltering Sky