Quotes About Smallness

Little things are great to little men.

If you choose to believe in a God who somehow needs something—and has such hurt feelings if He doesn't get it that He punishes those from whom He expected to receive it—then you choose to believe in a God much smaller than I. You truly are Children of a Lesser God.

This is a tightly planned little house. He often feels protected by its smallness; there is hardly room enough here to feel lonely.

He crosses the front room, which he calls his study, and comes down the staircase. The stairs turn a corner; they are narrow and steep. You can touch both handrails with your elbows, and you have to bend your head, even if, like George, you are only five eight. This is a tightly planned little house. He often feels protected by its smallness; there is hardly room enough here to feel lonely. Nevertheless.

È, o è stato, per molti aspetti, un grande uomo. Ma proprio per questo è strano. Sono solo gli uomini piccoli che sembrano normali.

I might PUNCH you instead and trust that you won't punch me back because of my endearing smallness. It would be like punching a child. (Or a badger.)

Aprenderás el desprecio ante la pequeñez de los poderosos, conocerás el respeto ante la grandeza de los pequeños.

El infinito no me aterroriza; me disgusta y me ofende. Para sufrir la humillación de mi pequeñez bastaba la tierra.

Is thinking small?" asked Isobel. "Small as air." May tapped my head with her finger. "And just as big.

how small he was and how wormy in manner

I am aware that the battle I am fighting is a petty one, but I am also aware that in order to win that which is great, you must first win that which is small.

Seeing your own smallness is called insightHonoring your own tenderness is called strength

The elephant is the largest, but not the fiercest. The giraffe is the tallest, but not the strongest. The cheetah is the fastest, but not the wisest. The ant is the smallest, but not the gentlest.

There are different stages when you fly. The first stage is the dollhouse effect, seeing everything on Earth like it's a model. Suddenly, all of your concerns seem very small.

Small things make base men proud.

He was a mote cycling in the wheels of a giant clock. Millions of people tended to this magnificent contraption, they lived and sweated and toiled in it, serving the mechanism of metropolis and making it bigger, better, story by glorious story and idea by unlikely idea. How small he was, tumbling between the teeth.

My little cup brims with tiddles.

Being born a human was not the first time God made Himself small so that we could have access to Him. First He shrunk Himself when He revealed the Torah at Mount Sinai. He shrunk Himself into tiny Hebrew words, man's finite language, so that we might get to Him that way. Then He shrunk Himself again, down to the size of a baby, down into manger finiteness.

In the little world in which children have their existence whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt as injustice. He may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stance as many hands high according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.

Power belongs to the smallest and to the dead.

Always in all my books I'm trying to reveal or help to reveal the hidden greatness of the small, of the little, of the unknown - and the pettiness of the big.

The thing I like about astronomy is being outside at night and seeing the stars in a dark sky. It makes you feel small.

The fundamental difficulty in myothermic observations is the smallness of the changes involved and their rapidity.

Half asleep, he wondered whether that might not have been his happiest day ever, the last, perfect day swelling with the immensity of his secret intent, secret creation—the day before everything changed—the day before he realized, for the first time, yet with absolute finality, just how small his private immensity really was when measured against that other vast, dark, impersonal immensity, call it God, or history, or simply life.