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Quotes About Small

Omnium Rerum Principia Parva Sunt – 'The beginnings of all things are small
~ Cicero
Alas, the day comes of the most contemptible man who can no longer condemn himself.... Then the earth will have grown small, and upon it shall hop the Last Man who makes all things small; his kind is inexterminable, like the ground flea. The last man lives longest.
~ Colin Wilson
It appeared before her one night in the attic like a spark, a small and simple truth
~ Colson Whitehead
Some kids rebelled to get attention. I did stupid things very carefully, spending all of my time thinking of ways to engineer small stupid things without getting caught. Things so small that no one else could see them and only I knew about them. But there I was last night, being stupid in a group, and of course that broke my rules and look where it got me.
~ Colson Whitehead
What was a life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves of incident.
~ Colum McCann
The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small.
~ Colum McCann
What was life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves if incident. Stacked at odd angles to each other.
~ Colum McCann
Let us be trivial, let us be intimate.)
~ Virginia Woolf
The people in ships, however, took an equally singular view of England. Not only did it appear to them to be an island, and a very small island, but it was a shrinking island in which people were imprisoned.
~ Virginia Woolf
I think she always nursed a small mad hope.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
One of the latticed squares in a small cobwebby casement window at the turn of the staircase was glazed with ruby, and that raw wound among the unstained rectangles and its asymmetrical position—a knight's move from the top—always strangely disturbed me.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Humbert the Terrible deliberated with Humbert the Small whether Humbert Humbert should kill her or her lover, or both, or neither.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
In which portrayed events forever stay. I think she always nursed a small mad hope.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The aim of blue ocean strategy was straightforward: to allow any organization—large or small, new or incumbent—to step up to the challenge of creating blue oceans in an opportunity-maximizing, risk-minimizing way
~ W. Chan Kim
Without, the night was cold and wet, but in the small parlour of Laburnam Villa the blinds were drawn and the fire burned brightly.
~ W. W. Jacobs
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.
~ Lao Tzu
I am reminded once again that the best things about America are the little things, the little freedoms that Americans don't think twice about.
~ Laura Fitzgerald
Una de las ventajas de ser un pez pequeño es que nunca se esperan que vayas a devolver el mordisco.
~ Laura Gallego García
happiness research finds that small, frequent gestures have a greater impact on our overall well-being than bigger, infrequent events.
~ Laura Vanderkam
upon opening the door. Half of the small
~ Lauraine Snelling
Life science research can be done on multiple platforms. Since we have a very small number of people flying into space, the more people you have, the better.
~ Laurel Clark
I am not a saint. I am, however, beginning to learn that I am a small character in a story that is always fundamentally about God.
~ Lauren F. Winner
We go to the same school. The same small school. Surely it would be hard to ignore someone in a school that small.
~ Lauren Myracle
Sometimes the biggest act of courage is a small one.
~ Lauren Raffo