Quotes About Small

We have a saying in my culture. Dios no le diá, alas a los alacranes: God did not give wings to scorpions. No. They seem a little scary at first, but look how small they are, how bitter and ugly. They just have to crawl around in everybody else's mierda, waiting for the chance to sting someone. Pobrecita... don't it just suck to be a bottom feeder? Don't it just?

No crime too small' was never exactly Moriarty's slogan, but the criminal genius would apply himself to minor offences if an unusual challenge was presented.

Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.

A dark purple sky filled with the first few evening stars made her feel small. She smiled; that was what she expected from the sky. All her life, she'd gone out at night and stood beneath that blue velvet darkness. It was her temple, the true house of God, and it never failed to remind her of her place.

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.

Quantum gravity is the discovery that no infinitely small point exists. There is a lower limit to the divisibility of space.

As our knowledge has grown, we have learned that our being is only a part of the universe, and a small part at that. This

He could hear noises of a pet inside the apartment, one too small to bark like a real dog.

Mallory took no great pride in this, for defeating the FBI's outdated system was a rite of passage for small children all over America.

The deliberate effort of memory for small detail is a social grace that will take a person far.

His small features huddled in the center of his round face like the holes in a bowling ball.

In shallow men the fish of small thoughts cause much commotion, in magnanimous oceanic minds the whales of inspiration cause hardly a ruffle" (Mao Tse-tung).

Tyrion Lannister was bundled in furs so thickly he looked like a very small bear

A shadow on the wall," Varys murmured, "yet shadows can kill. And ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow." Tyrion smiled. "Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I'd feel sad about it." "I will take that as high praise.

Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.

Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.

The pain was so huge he felt small and weak and helpless inside it,

But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.

This gathering is what I call "intimate," which really means "Where is everybody?"

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones come daily.

By gnawing through a dyke, even a rat may drown a nation.

It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.

A hick town is one in which there is no place to go where you shouldn't be.

One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones.