Quotes About Small

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Nothing is more unlovely than a fly, and it properly belongs in the list of infuriating things. Flies aren't big enough to make them worth bothering to hate, but just the way they settle all over everything in autumn, and their damp little feet when they land on your face … And I hate the way the word is used in people's names.2

The smallest viable market is the focus that, ironically and delightfully, leads to your growth.

There was even a small groundswell of sympathy for George, confined mainly among those who'd had no personal contact with him.

There Was an Old Woman Called Nothing-at-All, Who Lived in a Dwelling Exceedingly Small; A Man Stretched His Mouth to the Utmost Extent, And Down at One Gulp House and Old Woman Went.

We lived in a small house, so there was no escape from the goddamn racket of her loneliness.

Yes, I'm a small, emaciated teenage girl who struts around fighting vampires in earrings they would rip out of my ears and shove up my —

Um, Galen . . . This one is leaking.Styxx Galen laughed. Danae cried out in horror. am so sorry, Highness! I-- Bah, Galen scoffed, interrupting her. Not the worst that boy's had on him, is it, young prince? Definitely not. But . . . He passed Elpis back to Galen. I fear I have no experience with this realm of domesticity. I've never even seen a pana, never mind tried to apply one to such a small person.

What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.

Every so often my life will feel like a story. It doesn't have to be a big thing; in fact, most often, it's just the opposite.

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.

Seinfeld has his way of telling jokes - and I'm not comparing myself to Seinfeld, his genius is observing the small details of everyday life and finding humor in it.

I'm beginning to think that life is about passing moments and small celebrations. Without them there's only pain, fear, ambition, and, for some of us, foolish hope.

Sometimes an idea floated harmlessly through the room. It was like a small white bird. It meant no ill-will. It only wanted to help me, dear little bird. But I would strike at it, hammer it out across the keyboard, and it would die on my hands.

It formed into small drops on his weather beaten features, drops that rolled down his cheeks. Strangely, some of them tasted like salt.

Stamper looked a little bewildered at the sudden crowd of small, shaggy Ranger horses that now shared his stable.

I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small.

So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small cycle within the larger bad cycle. The universe, of course, is based upon the principle of the circle within the circle. At the moment, I am in an inner circle. Of course, smaller circles within this circle are also possible.

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

The Dragon's direct, forward gaze was as intent as any predator's, and meeting it made Vincent very aware that he was small and-mostly-quite soft-fleshed.

Well, one of the things you learn about sharing a small space with strong personalities you can't escape from is to practice your boundaries even if you'll never be really good at them.

The windows were small, but a small man might slide through them. Far below he could see lights scattered around the Tower precincts like flower petals on the sheets of a marriage bed.

And from a branch in the tall tree, a small gray squirrel released a mighty roar.

Happiness, said De Quincey, on his discovery of the paradise that he thought he had found in opium, could be sent down by the mail-coach; more truly I could announce my discovery that delight could be contained in small octavos and small type, in a bookshelf three feet long.