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Quotes About Small

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
~ Henry A. Wallace
For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
If a man's fortune does not fit him, it is like the shoe in the story; if too large it trips him up, if too small it pinches him.
~ Horace
Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.
~ Confucius
They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.
~ D. H. Lawrence
Optimism is the content of small men in high places.
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
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.
~ Terri Guillemets
The world promises things that are temporal and small, and it is served with great eagerness. I (Christ) promise things that are great and eternal, and the hearts of mortals are slow to stir.
~ Thomas a Kempis
The small batches principle is part of the DevOps methodology. It comes from the Lean Manufacturing movement, which is often called just-in-time (JIT) manufacturing. It
~ Thomas A. Limoncelli
Or, it goes the way of the dying seminar—fun but not enough fun, because there are not enough people to generate the loyalty and enthusiasm that would keep the number large and the absentee rate small.
~ Thomas C. Schelling
I don't choose to make movies as small as the movies I've made. The combined budget of my two films is far under $5 million, but it's just by necessity that it ends up being that way.
~ Barry Jenkins
Monaco's neutrality is one of our main attributes - the role of small countries is to act as go-betweens between big nations.
~ Albert II, Prince of Monaco
I attended an extremely small liberal arts school. There were approximately 1,600 of us roaming our New England campus on a good day. My high school was bigger. My freshman year hourly calorie intake was bigger.
~ Sloane Crosley
As an actor, you tend to live in a really small world, which is not very healthy. It is enriching to go to new places, meet different people know and learn about things which you didn't know about.
~ Shahid Kapoor
I live in a small apartment. There's only so much Batman memorabilia a guy can hang on to in New York City.
~ Robin Lord Taylor
I had a job right out of college writing for a small newspaper called 'The Unterrified Democrat.' Ghastly, ghastly job.
~ Cullen Bunn
When I first created the world of 'Mr. Robot,' I thought it would be a niche television series with a small, cult following.
~ Sam Esmail
My nickname, T-Wood, came from football because I was so small, but I used knock people's helmets off. All I wanted to do was hit. I didn't care about interceptions or touchdowns.
~ Tyron Woodley
Ahora pensaba que lo que importaba eran las pequeñas cosas de la vida. Si los grandes momentos del pasado eran los que marcaban el tono, los acontecimientos de la vida cotidiana eran los que definían quién era ella.
~ Nicholas Sparks
At around four o'clock most Saturday afternoons, just when I make us all a cup of tea, I have a little glow on, maybe because this is after all my work, and it's going OK, maybe because I'm proud of us, of the way that, though our talents are small and peculiar, we use them to their best advantage.
~ Nick Hornby
The problem, then, with the idea of Jesus as a nationalistic, Jewish revolutionary is that it's way too small a picture: his revolution was far greater than that, and the rebellion he began was aimed at a far, far greater power.
~ Nick Page
Why did they make babies so damn small? And loud. Surely better arrangements could be made for the propagation of the human race.
~ Nora Roberts
Though she be but little, she is fierce.
~ Nora Roberts
I tried dressing him as an angel. While I was putting my fairy costume on, he ate his halo. Then I found the perfect costume for my small red puppy. Clifford was the littlest ghost I had ever seen.
~ Norman Bridwell