Quotes About Small

All of his life he had feared the darkness and what it could bring; no one, not even his father, had told him how beautiful the night sky was, how it made you feel both small and large at the same time, while also a part of something vast and eternal.

For me, science wasn't about the big picture but the small one—the

While their hotel room was clean, it was also stifling, too small for four people, especially with disappointment crowding in with us.

Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

But when we consider how small after all the cup of human enjoyment is, how soon overflowed with tears, how easily drained to the dregs in our quenchless thirst for infinity, we shall not blame ourselves for making so much of the tea-cup.

It is right that man should acknowledge your divinity, It is right for heavenly beings to worship your humanity. The heavenly beings were amazed to see how small you became, And earthly ones to see how exalted.23 St Ephrem the Syrian

Most English houses, grand or small, nestle in an intimate pastoral setting.

I like cosy, intimate houses.

I got intrigued by working in small theatres.

One thing I'd like to do is angel investing in small companies. That's what's exciting, and if you are lucky to have a bit of money, you can take those risks.

Our employment future rests on the shoulders of the small employer, and we should be investing with them.

Iraq is a small but very proud nation.

If we had maintained a small, residual force in Iraq, I don't think the Islamic State would have risen to power as it has.

Living in Israel is similar to living in an island. It's a very small and isolated place. It's a very strong place in terms of the culture and the conditioning that you go through.

We at Ferrari are a small, dynamic company, and we show what Italy can do.

I made a movie in Germany called 'The Chambermaid' - it was very, very small. I think it cost €70,000 to make. I even put some money in and raised some money for it. It was real German arthouse... It goes, somehow, out there on the Internet, and it goes on iTunes.

Because I come from a place like Jamaica, which is a small, open economy, I viscerally get the importance of the global economy.

If two firms join together, we want their total tax bill to go up because we don't want more big firms. We'd actually like to have lots more small ones.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.

Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thoughts in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.

It required attention, openness, humility. It required the recognition that something small could be enough, that something ordinary could be extraordinary.

What is at first small is often extremely large in the end. And so it happens that whoever deviates only a little from truth in the beginning is led farther and farther afield in the sequel, and to errors which are a thousand times as large.

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.