Quotes of: Small Keyword

I tried that too, you know. After ... my family was murdered, and I was waiting for justice, I tried to hide inside a bottle. But some men, Tony, [..] are not small enough to fit into a bottle.

Collateral

I, while the gods laugh, the world's vortex am; Maelström of passions in that hidden sea Whose waves of all-time lap the coasts of me; And in small compass the dark waters cram. -

Collected Poems

In a few minutes tea was brought. Very delicate was the china, very old the plate, very thin the bread-and-butter, and very small the lumps of sugar. Sugar was evidently Mrs. Jamieson's favourite economy.

Cranford

The Compound Effect is the principle of reaping huge rewards from a series of small, smart choices

The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success

I'm a five-hundred-year-old born vampire with an ever-expanding wardrobe, a serious cosmetics addiction, and enough outstanding Visa charges to fund a small third-world country.

Dead and Dateless

Of course, that’s how life is. A turn of events may seem very small at the time it’s happening, but you never really know, do you? How can you?

Dark Curses and Faerie Dreams

Dewey sent him, I thought, when I saw those eyes.

Dewey's Nine Lives: The Legacy of the Small-Town Library Cat Who Inspired Millions

...we have to save the history we have. You never know what small bit of it might change your life--or change the whole world.

Dead End in Norvelt

The idea of God was invented in the small hours of history by a scam who had genius; it somehow reeks too much of humanity, that idea, to make its azure origin plausible...

Despair

You won’t shoot me." "People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I’m small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can’t possibly be cruel. But they’re wrong.

Divergent

She understood she was far from perfect, but to even imagine that Jesus could step off the throne of heaven to die for someone so small and full of sin, it was hard to understand

ERDEN FLAME OF THE CREATOR

Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly is there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

When good Americans die, they go to Paris,' the ghost said, after taking a drag on a small cigarette. But you’re not dead. I suppose the question must be, are you good?

Embrace the Night

Growing up is made up of a million small moments in time, and one of the most painful is the moment you're severed from the whole, when you realise that your parent is complicated, and fallible and human.

Friday Brown

The thanks of a weak one are but of little value," he muttered, "but you have them, for truly, in this past week, little but scraps have come my way- and for all my body is small, yet is my appetite unseemly great.

Foundation and Empire

I prefer 'buccaneers',' he grinned. 'A small privately funded army of committed peacekeepers. Tough, but fair. Our motto is: We put the fist in 'pacifist'.

Force of Habit: Sister Madeleine Investigates

You must draw from that strength. You must increase it. And you must hold on to it because sometimes that small glimmer of inner strength is all that we have to help us press forward through the darkness.

Falling Kingdoms

In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and birds.

The Faraway Nearby

Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it.

The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham

The ECTs are moving the guns in small batches," Bat said. "We're making them take so many photos that one of them asked if she was being trained to shoot porno.

Gun Machine

She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.

Girls In Pants: The Third Summer of the Sisterhood