The Small Quotes

If you owe $50, you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000, you're a small businessmen. If you owe $50 million, you're a corporation. If you owe $50 billion, you're the government.

What a profound significance small things assume when the woman we love conceals them from us.

He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things.

I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.

I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things.

I never thought I'd be in a family that has more people than a small country.

I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.

Do one small thing immediately - often this is all you need to do to get started.

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

Einstein's theory of relativity does a fantastic job for explaining big things. Quantum mechanics is fantastic for the other end of the spectrum - for small things.

Constancy... that small change of love, which people exact so rigidly, receive in such counterfeit coin, and repay in baser metal.

I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back.

Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

Just about anybody is a big girl in a small world but you gotta believe it on the inside, that you can be bigger than the rest of it.

Life is filled with small moments that seem prosaic until one has the distance to look back and see the chain of large moments they unleashed.

It seems to me that the soul, when alone with itself and speaking to itself, uses only a small number of words, none of them extraordinary.

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

it is the sum of small things successfully done that lifts a life out of bondage to the humdrum.

Small gestures can have a big impact.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

As governor, when I visited our troops in Kuwait and Iraq, I served them Thanksgiving dinner. It was a small gesture compared to their sacrifice.

Woe to the man who offends a small child!

There is no logical staircase running from the physics of 10-28 cm. to the physics of 1028 light-years.

A small change at the beginning of the design process defines an entirely different product at the end.

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.

A great artist can paint a great picture on a small canvas.

Run a home like you would a small business and treat it with the same seriousness.

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

I think that there is a relatively small number of people who are pushing for independence in Taiwan.

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

Teas, Where small talk dies in agonies.

As I small child and hearing all the stories about him I, of course, looked up to him as some kind of miracle. Then I got to eight years old and suddenly I was taller than [Bernie Ecclestone].

There is no doubt that, with the exception of a very small number of people close to a vicious regime, the people of Iraq have been liberated and they understand that they've been liberated.

Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.

I've loved fairytales, folklore and mythology since I was a small child, and I think it was inevitable that they would influence my style and my development of stories.

And yet I would not freely exchange my science for those of my fellow laureates. They are forever confined in their professional discussions to the small numbers of their fellow scientists.

I could be wrong. Not being certain is what being a philosopher is all about.

It's nice to go to small places where we had a lot of fans. They followed our career and it's kind of a way to say thank you to them and do it for a good cause.

The imposing edifice of science provides a challenging view of what can be achieved by the accumulation of many small efforts in a steady objective and dedicated search for truth.

Any institution becomes a community - whether it's a high school or a boarding school or a publishing company or a small town where everybody knows certain things about people.

And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.

My constituents in Kansas know the death tax is a duplicative tax on small businesses and family farms that, in many cases, families have spent generations building.

The death tax is one of the leading causes of the dissolution of small businesses.

Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

I want to do small things, for small people, and to make the small people big.

As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive

One tries to be an observer as an actor and indeed as a director because the small things, the give-away things are what are really interesting to a performer.

How you shape your attitude is not a small part of how you shape your life...it is the only part.