Quotes About Smallness

Je porte en moi une âme corrompue par le monde, une imagination inquiète, un cÅ"ur insatiable; pour moi tout est petit : je m'habitue au chagrin aussi facilement qu'au plaisir, et ma vie devient plus vaine de jour en jour.

That we ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.

we have a theology that is Earth-centered and involves a tiny piece of space, and when we step back, when we attain a broader cosmic perspective, some of it seems very small in scale. And in fact a general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the God portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy, much less of a universe.

Muchas religiones han intentado hacer grandes estatuas de sus dioses, con la idea, supongo, de hacernos sentir pequeños a nosotros. Pero, si ése era su objetivo, ya pueden quedarse con sus míseros íconos. Para sentirnos pequeños basta con que levantemos la mirada

Para criaturas pequenas como nós, a vastidão só é suportável por meio do amor.

I mean, doesn't it change history even if you just tread on an ant?' 'For the ant, certainly,' said Qu.

Nuestros dones son pequeños, pero amistosos, pues la naturaleza de los siervos es tener siempre miedo cuando dominan nuevos soberanos.

When we go on about the big things, the political situation, global warming, world poverty, it all looks really terrible, with nothing getting better, nothing to look forward to. But when I think small, closer in-you know, a girl I've just met, or this song we'regoing to do with Chas, or snowboarding next month, then it looks great. So this is going to be my motto - think small.

Look at the sky; remind yourself of the cosmos. Seek vastness at every opportunity in order to see the smallness of yourself.

Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness; his defeats will substantiate it.

It was so pathetic, really, how so much violence came from someone feeling small. Small of mind, and it did not matter how big the sword in hand, that essential smallness remained, gnawing with very sharp teeth.

He yearned for the mellow glow of an English summer evening and the smallness of life in his old home.

We may not be big but we're small!

Still in the black hemisphere the stars blazed and slowly wheeled; beneath them, Will felt so infinitesimally small that it seemed impossible he should even exist. Immensity pressed in on him, terrifying, threatening--and then, in a swift flash of movement like a dance, like the glint of a leaping fish, came a flick of brightness in the sky from a shooting star... He heard Bran give a small chirrup of delight, a spark struck from the same bright sudden joy that filled his own being.

You're a small thing and you must learn to fight.

Force has no meaning in the world, he had said to them, and holding his thumb and forefinger an inch apart to indicate the smallness of the bird, had added, God speaks through the least of His creatures.

One wood mouse can nibble a large hole.

Little things please little minds.

Small is not beautiful unless small is skilled and dedicated.

I wonder if this is the end, thought Ducane, and if so what it will all have amounted to. How tawdry and small it has all been.

un ser extraordinariamente pequeño, casi calvo, arrugado y pálido, sin más signo de inteligencia humana que sus negros ojos relucientes, con una sabia expresión de ancianidad desde la cuna.

Wee, sleekit, cow'rin, timrous beastie 0 what a panic's in thy breastie! Wi' bickering brattle!

We grow small trying to be great.

If you take risks and face your fate with dignity, there is nothing you can do that makes you small. If you don't take risks, there is nothing you can do that makes you grand. Nothing. And when you take risks, insults by half-men, small men, those who don't risk anything, are similar to barks by non-human animals. You can't feel insulted by a dog.