Quotes About Small

Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blow up the bonfire.

Everyone takes pleasure in returning small obligations, many people acknowledge moderate ones; but there are only a scarce few who do not pay great ones with ingratitude.

The common practice of cunning is a sign of small genius; and it almost always happens that those who use it to cover themselves in one place, lay themselves open in another.

Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is. Look at you. You are a lord of ashes, a lord of char. You are filthy with your victory. Enjoy it, Joram, for you will never know another. You are lord of a country of ghosts, and that is all that you will ever be.

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Dead souls dream only of death... Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is. Look at you. You are a lord of ashes, a lord of char. You are filthy with your victory.

It was a very small wish. These beads were just scuppies,

So they watched Eliza closely for some small sign that it might be taking effect. There was no small sign. That is to say… the sign was not small.

Oh, it's a merry thing, this heart of yours," she said. "It's like a drink in a small glass on the deck of a storm-tossed ship or a shout in a fiery room.

I never wanted to be a star, I never wanted to travel far / I only wanted a little bit of love so I could put a little love in my heart / I never wanted to be la-de-da, go to parties 'avec le bourgeois' / I only wanted to sing my song well so I could ring a small bell in your heart

small back garden, terraced in three layers, each higher than the

Reason is the enemy of all greatness: reason is the enemy of nature: nature is great, reason is small. I mean that it will be more or less difficult for a man to be great the more he is governed by reason, that few can be great (and in art and poetry perhaps no one) unless they are governed by illusions.

It is not so much the grand dramas of our lives that transform us as it is the tiny one-acts we produce in between.

Nei piccoli paesi c'è della gente che farebbe delle miglia per venire a portarvi la cattiva nuova.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

the infamous execution chamber—which was pretty small. Less than four yards by five. I found it incredible that up to twenty-two people were crowded into it for the shootings, half of them with guns blazing. I'm surprised many of the executioners weren't killed by ricochets.

small? That seems manageable.

The greatness of the world in which we live is the accumulated goodness of many small and seemingly inconsequential acts.

It was a small'ish bookstore. Yet is not any bookstore large to a bibliophile's heart?

Bunnies are cuddly The large and the small But I like chocolate ones The best of them all.

A flower's appeal is in its contradictions — so delicate in form yet strong in fragrance, so small in size yet big in beauty, so short in life yet long on effect.

The strawberry, in the main, repeats the form of the human heart, and perhaps, of all the small fruits known to man, none other is so deeply and fondly cherished, or hailed with such universal delight, as this lowly but youth-renewing berry.

tranquility, and its same small scale indicates that it lacked sufficient grazing for the number of animals needed to support a large army or even a large court of retainers. The location indicates

He's what my old mum would call a bombastic little nit of a man.