The Small Quotes

nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands

A thought no less than a thing, an idea equally with an empire, is resolved into a complex of infinitely extensive relations between infinitesimally small parts.

What happened on September 11th is at least, theoretically, small stuff compared to what can happen.

Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.

There is a much bigger picture we are all striving for. To sweat the small stuff just stresses you out for no reason.

Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.

A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

I don't count myself as a fashionista because I do a lot of other things. That's just a small part of my life.

The wild boar is often held by a small dog. [Lat., A cane non magno saepe tenetur aper.]

You may be capable of great things, But life consists of small things.

It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.

Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.

I'm convinced there's a small room in the attic of the Foreign Office where future diplomats are taught to stammer.

We should scrub all of our federal regulations to find responsible ways to make life easier to small businesses, i want to be a small business president.

I don't grow up. In me is the small child of my early days.

I always say to myself when things get too hectic, "Don't sweat the small stuff!"

You may think I’m small, but I have a universe inside my mind.

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America.

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

Be an active participant in your community and country. Every small gesture makes up the big gestures. Resist, rinse, repeat.

Having children obviously changes your priorities, but when you start to see life through these innocent eyes and seeing everything for the first time, you appreciate the small things.

In descriptions of nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture.

All the wisdom in the world cannot put in one's heart the love one yearned for as a small child.

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.

Unfortunately, only a small number of patients with peptic ulcer are financially able to make a pet of an ulcer.

Love is about all the changes you make, and not just three small words

The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.

Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

The control of large numbers is possible, and like unto that of small numbers, if we subdivide them.

What makes small business develop into big business is not spending, but saving and capital accumulation.

Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

Noticing small changes early helps you adapt to the bigger change that are to come

The great victory, which appears so simple today, was the result of a series of small victories that went unnoticed

It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.

Take some initiative and snap outside of passivity; consistent small actions have impact.

I can do small things in a great way.

It's a small world? Dude, what have you been smoking?

A small room is enough; a small quantity of food is enough; a few clothes are enough; one lover, a very ordinary man

It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world.

Discipline is built by consistently performing small acts of courage.

Geometry, like arithmetic, requires for its logical development only a small number of simple, fundamental principles. These fundamental principles are called the axioms of geometry.

I'd much rather turn down a starring role in a bad picture and do a small role in a very good picture.

The great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. And great things are not something accidental, but must certainly be willed.

Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.

If I were a gynecologist, I'd say things like, Okay, enough of the small talk. Let's check under the hood.

Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.