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Quotes About Small

in the chaos of war, I would have looked simply small, and therefore neither a promise nor a threat.
~ Sarah Dunant
Put me down, I'm too heavy." "You're small enough to fit in my pocket.
~ Sarah Mayberry
The rats we met the size of small dogs and they watched us go by like they'd figured out that what People were for was feeding rats.
~ Sarah Monette
Here was a task with boundaries and purpose, a small thing that made sense. A small thing I could do well.
~ Scot Gardner
Toni Schneider used the term continuous deployment to describe the philosophy of endless small changes.
~ Scott Berkun
Your small goals are clear and you understand the actions and know the path you need to take to reach these goals. In your mind, they're achievable and you know it's just a matter of time.
~ Jean Charest
Life is made up of little things. It is very rarely that an occasion is offered for doing a great deal at once. True greatness consists in being great in little things.
~ Charles Simmons
Evaluation schemes that implicate 100% of the staff to detect a small % of incompetents are a waste of time.
~ Andy Hargreaves
No nation in the world has so many drastic problems squeezed into so small a space, under such urgent pressure of time and heavy burden of history, as Israel.
~ Barbara Tuchman
'Brookline' was a very small film and it was only here for a very short time and I wasn't able to catch it.
~ Bun B
I've seen it [Australia] go from a lot of small towns to big towns, but I think it has found its identity in all this time... it's a very special country, I could easily live here.
~ Suzi Quatro
As the clockwork of the millennia moved a notch in front of their eyes, it had taken their thoughts from small things and reminded them of how vulnerable they were to time.
~ Mark Helprin
The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space.
~ Neil deGrasse Tyson
she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.
~ Mark Twain
THROUGH them for so small a thing as a boy; they were her state pair, the pride of her heart, and were built for style, not service—she could have seen through a pair of stove-lids just as well. She looked perplexed
~ Mark Twain
berth in a storm, for they were familiar with marksmanship and doubted if the lightning could hit that small stick at a distance of a mile and a half
~ Mark Twain
Quick note here: if this crush–slash–swooning stuff is hard for you to stomach; if you've never had a similar experience, then you should come to grips with the fact that you've got a TV dinner for a heart and might want to consider climbing inside a microwave and turning it on high for at least an hour, which if you do consider only goes to show what kind of idiot you truly are because microwaves are way too small for anyone, let alone you, to climb into.
~ Mark Z. Danielewski
It's a small story really, about, among other things: * A girl * Some words * An accordionist * Some fanatical Germans * A Jewish fist fighter * And quite a lot of thievery
~ Markus Zusak
There was no more yelling or calling out, but they could not contain the small snatches of laughter. They were only humans, playing in the snow, in a house
~ Markus Zusak
I don't leave a note. There's nothing else to do. At first, I'd wanted to write Merry Christmas on the box somewhere, but I decide against it. This isn't about words. It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.
~ Markus Zusak
There was once a strange small man but there was a word shaker too.
~ Markus Zusak
So many people chased after me in that time, calling my name, asking me to take them with me. Then there was the small percentage who called me casually over and whispered with their tightend voices.
~ Markus Zusak
Jewish shops that were still in operation in Molching. Inside, a small man was stuttering about, crushing the broken glass beneath his feet as he cleaned up.
~ Markus Zusak
Max, she said. He turned and briefly closed his eyes as the girl continued. There was once a strange, small man, she said. Her arms were loose but her hands were fists at her side. But there was a word shaker, too. One of the Jews on his way to Dachau had stopped walking now. He stood absolutely still as the others swerved morosely around him, leaving him completely alone. His eyes staggered and it was so simple. The words were given across from the girl to the Jew.
~ Markus Zusak