The Small Quotes

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.

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

What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government.

I believe in small government and people taking care of themselves.

Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.

History records the large events or the general condition of society, but only an individual can put down the way of life in a small town.

I think fine dining is dying out everywhere... but I think there will be - and there has to always be - room for at least a small number of really fine, old-school fine-dining restaurants.

You will find that [the] State [Department] is the kind of organisation which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly too.

In the end, all it takes is one small action, by one person. One at a time.

Never belong to a crowd; Never belong to a nation; Never belong to a religion; Never belong to a race. Belong to the whole existence. Why limit yourself to small things? When the whole is available.

[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law.

There is a comfortable feeling in small towns. It is salubrious.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives.

A small town has as many eyes as a fly

I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.

My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages.

As a big creature, if you do not respect small creatures, you will be even much smaller than them!

As a member of the House Committee on Small Business and because of my own experience as a small business owner, I am appreciative of the impact these small businesses have on our local economies.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.

The world is large when its weary leagues two loving hearts divide; But the world is small when your enemy is loose on the other side.

The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created.

Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

A small step in a good direction.

Alibaba is an ecosystem that helps small business to grow.

To help people believe they can achieve victory, put them in a position to experience small successes.

nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility

When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

By viewing nature, nature's handmaid art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow: Thus fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow.

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world.

Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic.

What's really important here," I whispered loudly to myself,"is not the big things other people have thought up, but the small things you, yourself have

MS Dhoni showed India what a tough man from a small town could dream and achieve. He has been a role model. Respect.

Do one thing everyday that scares you. Those small things that make us uncomfortable help us build courage to do the work we do.

I'm Lou Barletta, and I'm a small town defender.

One without health cannot achieve any small thing.

There are no great acts, only small acts done with great love

In fact, in Aberdeen, Washington, I am known as Mr. Small Package!