Quotes About Smallness

I wondered that she should waste so much energy fighting over a little matter like wearing hats in chapel, but then I told myself that, after all, life was like that for most of us -- the small unpleasantness rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.

I wondered that she should waste so much energy fighting over a little matter like wearing hats in chapel, but then I told myself that, after all, life was like that for most of us—the small unpleasantnesses rather than the great tragedies; the little useless longings rather than the great renunciations and dramatic love affairs of history or fiction.

I don't have audition horror stories, I just have situations in which I was made to feel so small. That's the worst of all, because it's really hard to recover from.

The fragment of coral, a tiny crinkle of pink like a sugar rosebud from a cake, rolled across the mat. How small, thought Winston, how small it always was!

I became obsessed with making more and more tiny things. I think I was trying to find a way of compensating for my embarrassment at having learning difficulties: people had made me feel small so I wanted to show them how significant 'small' could be.

This is a very small world; we are all within hail of each other. I dare say when we get to Heaven there will not be a stranger to make friends with.

Awe is quite a specific experience. It happens when we view beauty amid vastness, predominantly in nature, triggering a deep sense of belonging. Our smallness against a backdrop of immensity reminds us of our insignificance and interconnectedness, which brings about a profound, yet elated, peace.

He says, naïvely, outspokenly, and without suggestion of embarrassment: I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. You see, it is only another way of saying, I the Lord thy God am a small God; a small God, and fretful about small things.

Her knuckles and fingernails were so frighteningly tough, despite their smallness. You Saukerl. Her voice, too, was able to scratch him.

I think it is more tha6 the sea is a reminder of how little control we have over our own lives no matter how carefully we try to plan and order them. Everything changes in ways we least expect, and everything is frighteningly vast. We are so small.

Little people are often more fierce than their larger counterparts[...]

they knew that they had to put their faith in fragility. Stick to Smallness. Each time they parted, they extracted only one small promise from each other: Tomorrow?Tomorrow.

I believe in the possible. I believe, small though we are, insignificant though we may be, we can reach a full understanding of the universe. You were right when you said you felt small, looking up at all that up there. We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things.

Life in this village is like that of a louse hanging on to a wrinkle in a loincloth.

Remember that nothing is small in the eyes of God. Do all that you do with love.

Love, we are a small pond.

To love God in great things is not so perfect an act of faith as to worship them in small ones.

That's why you piss me off, Clark. Because I see all this talent, all this...' He shrugged. 'This energy and brightness and-' 'Potential. Yes. Potential. And I cannot for the life of me see how you can be content to live this tiny life. This life that will take place almost entirely within a five-mile radius and contain nobody who will ever surprise you or push you or show you things that will leave your head spinning and unable to sleep at night.

It is very queer that the unhappiness of the world is so often brought on by small men.

En su cerrada mollera no entraban ni podían entrar otras luces sobre el santo ejercicio de la caridad; no comprendía que una palabra cariñosa, un halago, un trato delicado y amante que hicieran olvidar al pequeño su pequeñez, al miserable su miseria, son heroísmos de más precio que el bodrio sobrante de una mala comida.

Un oraÅŸ atât de sufocant ÅŸi de mic, încât zilnic te împiedicai de oameni pe care îi urai.

to mi?o?? czyni ludzi wielkimi, a nienawi?? ma?ymi

I love being in a small club where everybody has a good seat, and we don't look like ants. And you can feel the audience, which makes it kind of magical, and I miss that. I guess I have the best of both worlds.

When they came into their trench he felt small enough. The biggest thing there was the roaring of Death and the smallest thing was a man. Bombs not so far off distressed the earth of Belgium, disgorged great heaps of it, and did everything except kill him immediately, as he half expected them to do.