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Quotes About Small

They were relatively small, out of necessity. One of Seville's limitations as a port was the shallowness of the Guadalquivir River;
~ Laurence Bergreen
Portuguese did not maintain a permanent settlement there. A small abandoned customshouse served as the sole evidence of the Portuguese occupation.
~ Laurence Bergreen
Hail, ye small, sweet courtesies of life! for smooth do ye make the road of it.
~ Laurence Sterne
There's not a child so small and weak but has his little cross to take, his little work of love and praise that he may do for Jesus' sake.
~ Cecil Frances Alexander
All of that will be gone by morning. Instead, they will dissect this last evening for years to come. What had they missed that they should have seen? What small gesture, forgotten, might have changed everything? They will pick it down to the bones, wondering how this had all gone so wrong, and they will never be sure.
~ Celeste Ng
In her experience, when someone tried to do something for her, it came from either pity or distrust, but this simple gesture felt like what it was: a small kindness, with no strings attached.
~ Celeste Ng
What had they missed that they should have seen? What small gesture, forgotten, might have changed everything? They will pick it down to the bones, wondering how this had all gone so wrong, and they will never be sure.
~ Celeste Ng
Mutluluk, birbirini tamamlayan ufak tefek ÅŸeylerin birikmesinden doÄŸuyor.
~ Cengiz Aytmatov
Because of my age and because there's more work on the small screen. What it's missing in quality it makes up for in quantity. From an actor's selfish point of view.
~ Cesar Romero
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.
~ Charles de Lint
Trifles make the sum of life.
~ Charles Dickens
The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.
~ Charles Dickens
He is the least suspicious of mankind; and whether that's a merit, or whether it's a blemish, it deserves consideration in all dealings with the Doctor, great or small.
~ Charles Dickens
she would confess she had her doubts about the quantity of flour. Everybody had something to say about it, but nobody said or thought it was at all a small pudding for a large family. It would
~ Charles Dickens
A gifted small girl has explained that pins are a great means of saving life, "by not swallowing them."
~ Charles Edward Montague
The truth of the matter is that our goals are generally very small and unsatisfying compared to the awesome, eternal plans the Father desires to accomplish through us.
~ Charles F. Stanley
Needle, needle, dip and dart, Thrusting up and down, Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown? See the stitches curve and crawl Round the cunning seams— Patterns thin and sweet and small As a lady's dreams.
~ Dorothy Parker
God gave all men all earth to love, But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should prove Beloved over all...
~ Rudyard Kipling
There are some towns so small that your second best friend is your third worst enemy.
~ FDA member, May 1976
What we are trying to do may be just a drop in the ocean, but the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
~ Greg Mortenson
He was a man who understood the virtue of small things.
~ Greg Mortenson
I would say that it is an advantage to belong to a small country. We are apt to be less provincial in scholarly undertakings. We don't have enough literature in various problems - we must always look on the whole world. No country can be so provincial as a big country. The United States is, in my opinion, the most provincial country I have lived in - an I'm afraid that England and France don't come very far behind.
~ Gunnar Myrdal
The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.
~ Guy Pearce
Given the number of small cancers they did find and the number that they reasoned they had missed...the researchers concluded that virtually everybody would have some evidence of thyroid cancer if examined carefully enough.
~ H. Gilbert Welch