Quotes About Small

love, life and everything human seemed small and trifling in such close juxtaposition with an infuriated universe'. (p.309)

Here, in the valley, the world seems to be constructed upon a smaller and more delicate scale...

She was charming way a cub is charming, a small cub that will grow up to be like one of the big cats. One you can't play with later

It sped her toward the idea that Dr. Lecter's taste for rarefied things, things in a small market, might be the monster's dorsal fin, cutting the surface and making him visible.

Shadow children, thin and small, Now the day is left behind, You are dancing on the wall, On the curtains, on the blind.

La felicidad, pensó, está hecha de pequeñas cosas. Siempre se la espera con mayúsculas, pero llega a nosotros de puntillas y puede pasar bajo nuestras narices sin darnos cuenta

You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller.

It was the small things she took pleasure in. The faint hum of a huge furry bumble bee busily flitting from one flower to another, oblivious to the fact that it was completing a task on which the entire human race depended.

The still small voice of Jesus the Communist stole over the earth like a soft refreshing breeze, carrying healing wherever it went.

I'm in exactly the same position as everybody else who has a small business. I mean I get loads of money, all from different sources. You give it to your accountant. They manage it.

Natural laws are statistical truths, which means that they are completely valid only when we are dealing with macrophysical quantities. In the realm of very small quantities prediction becomes uncertain, if not impossible, because very small quantities no longer behave in accordance with the known natural laws.

What humans can do to change the planet is puny.

April came from a small mountain town in north-central Wyoming called Saddlestring.

Kirk's path to American Treasures was incremental. He didn't decide out of nowhere that he wanted to host a television show and then work backward to make that dream a reality. Instead, he worked forward from his original mission—to popularize archaeology—with a series of small, almost tentative steps.

It took me the entire day watching the sun plod across the sky, but Lord Shiva helped me understand that my only journey of concern was to be like the sun, to make it through the day offering as much light and warmth and consistency for others as I could—one single day. Each day. That was all." She drew a steadied breath. "So from that day on, I have continued to get up in the morning and offer that light, as much as I am able, in my own small way.

It took me the entire day watching the sun plod across the sky, but Lord Shiva helped me understand that my only journey of concern was to be like the sun, to make it through the day offering as much light and warmth and consistency for others as I could -- one single day. Each day. That was all.' She drew a steadied breath. 'So from that day on, I have continued to get up in the morning and offer that light, as much as I am able, in my own small way.' -The Orphan Keeper

The fear of being fundamentally flawed brings with it a related fear. It's the fear that if you did make a full commitment to living in your Zone of Genius, you might fail. It's the belief that even your genius is flawed, and that if you expressed it in a big way, it wouldn't be good enough. This belief tells you to play it safe and stay small. That way, if you fail, at least you fail small.

And what are these fluxions? The velocities of evanescent increments. And what are these same evanescent increments? They are neither finite quantities, nor quantities infinitely small, nor yet nothing. May we not call them ghosts of departed quantities?

It is in those acts which we call trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted.

George met me at the foot of the stairs. What are you planning? I asked as we turned towards the grand ballroom. Just a small demonstration for the public good, he said. I'm so sorry. You're apologizing in advance. Yes. Never a good sign.

You should try making more noise as you walk, too." Curran suggested. "Maybe the ghouls will mistake you for a small underground elephant and run off.

a small House consisting only of him and my grandmother Victoria.

I had to honor this request or the Nuans would hate me forever. What could she possibly want? "She wishes to obtain a small predator." "A small predator?" "Yes." Nuan Ara nodded. "The silent, stealthy, vicious killer that prowls by night and mercilessly murders its victims for food and pleasure." Um… What?

Her little shop might not change the world . . . or garner her a Nobel Peace Prize . . . but Mother Teresa had been right. Not everyone was able to do great things, but everyone could do small things with great love.