Quotes About Small

Whatever may need to be bailed out should be nationalized; whatever does not need a bailout should be free, small, and risk-bearing. We got ourselves into the worst of capitalism and socialism. In France, in the 1980s, the socialists took over the banks. In the United States in the 2000s, the banks took over the government. This is surreal.

the price difference appears to be small enough to be negligible

These two mistakes are quite telling because, in both cases, the benefits appeared to be obvious and immediate, though small, and the harm remained delayed for years

the benefits are small, and visible—and the costs very large, delayed, and hidden.

Fanfares of trumpets usually announced only small, futile things, it was a way fate had of teasing people. You felt a great exaltation and heard a loud fanfare of trumpets in the sky. But the serious things of life, on the contrary, took you by surprise, they spurted up all of a sudden like water.

vest-pocket apocalypse.

Luce's new stranger children were small and beautiful and violent.

Life gets a little trickier when we are doing our regression analysis (or other forms of statistical inference) with a small sample of data.

There's a difference between being a class act and being classy. Peeing off the side of a jeep doesn't mean you're not classy, it just means you're a free spirit with a small bladder.

La mayor parte del dinero proviene de las ventas más pequeñas».

She feared that she'd missed something, because there were so many parallels with her own story, and she could not help but see in her head the small memories her mind would offer as tantalizing, but—in the end unsatisfying, glimpses of what may have occurred.

A small thing, yes, but the world was rich with small things that in truth were signs of great importance.

I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.

When I started Atom Factory, the idea was to do something small yet powerful. That name resonated with the mission.

The question is what will Mitt Romney do as president if his policy is simply to be hands off and let the government be made so small it can be drowned in a bathtub. In the 21st century global economy, no state alone has the ability to compete against China.

The down market favours the small two-, three-, four-person company, not the huge company with 100 people losing half a million dollars a month.

Keep the team as small as possible. Having been on several of these mega-projects, they seem to grow magically. People are attracted to the project like moths to a flame.

Dressed all in white, and clutching firmly in their small hands the tiny stems of American flags, the pigmies, monstrous as only children can be when they become the witless mouths of slogans and crusades, charged hungrily, uttering their shrill cries, upon their Gulliver.

Not every story started off big enough to notice.

Here I am not the one to throw out. No one steals my warmth and shoes because I am small. No one handles my backside. No one whinnies like sheep or goat because I drop in fear and weakness. No one screams at the sight of me. No one watches my body for how it is unseemly. With you my body is pleasure is safe is belonging. I can never not have you have me.

Because she was looking down and focusing her attention so precisely, Alice lost track of time and of herself. She wouldn't be able to put it into words, except to say she felt removed from the world. Or just at its edge. At the edge of the wild and beautiful world. She felt small, too. But part of something large. She was happy.

The small room was furnished with little more than odd smells and disappointment.

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.

In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, for in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.