Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.

Charles Caleb Colton

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• I like the challenge of growing small companies into big global companies.

  

  Eckhard Pfeiffer
  • Small
  • Growing
  • Challenge

• My dad tells me that he took us to a pantomime when I was very, very small - panto being a sort of English phenomenon. There's traditionally a part of the show where they'll invite kids up on the stage to interact with the show. I was too young to remember this, but my dad says that I was running up onstage before they even asked us.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• We fly to the town in the little private airplane, and then we have to get in cars and drive to the hotel and then drive to the gig. So, I want to do a tour where the performances will actually be at the small airports.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Small
  • Fly
  • Airplane

• Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.

  

  Oscar Pistorius
  • People
  • Up
  • Hope

• I'm all about small towns. I think it's a great place to grow up.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Up
  • Great
  • Small

• I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Young

• Shoes are very emotional. For women, they carry the message that you want to give to the world. One day you want to be sexy, or super powerful at your job - you wear a great pump. If you want to be on-the-go and running after your kids - you wear a great flat.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • World
  • Great
  • Women

• I wrote small stories here and there, then bigger ones. Some were even written for money. I signed up for a writing class and snuck my first assignment on a yellow legal pad in a partner's office while he read through my memo.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Money

• My first songs were about animals and shoes. I wrote one song about PF Flyers, and one to my fish.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Song
  • Shoes
  • Fish

• When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Great
  • Small
  • Courage

• Let's find those areas where modest and reasonable tax cuts will have the biggest positive impact on our economy, and which will improve the lives of those who need it most: working families, retirees, and small business owners.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Business
  • Small
  • Positive

• In a city, there's more room to be, where in a small town, you have to squish yourself down a little bit. And it's exciting for me to be pursuing a career where I don't have to be small.

  

  Halsey
  • Career
  • Small
  • City

• What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage?

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Small
  • Lies
  • Leading

• Without a dog, I would have tassels on my throw pillows instead of little stubs of yarn that look like small worms. The pillows seem to function just fine without the tassels, so perhaps it isn't a problem.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Small
  • Problem
  • Dog

• 'Red Knot' is a film that I shot in Antarctica almost three years ago on a boat. It was a film that was improvised and it had very interesting circumstances while making the film, obviously. We were on a small boat bobbing around in Antarctica. It was a really remarkable experience.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • Experience
  • Interesting
  • Small

• What's so great about Sundance is that they only accept such a small handful of films per year for dramatic competition, so you know when you're going to Sundance that you're going to see top-quality projects.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Great
  • Small
  • Quality

• We think of divinity as something infinitely big, but it is also infinitely small - the condensation of your breath on your palms, the ridges in your fingertips, the warm space between your shoulder and the shoulder next to you.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Small
  • Space
  • Warm

• Since I was a small boy, I was always around the game. I don't play golf much myself, but I love watching it. My father has played golf all his life.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Life
  • Father
  • Game

• I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

  

  Louis C. K.
  • People
  • Lost

• People say 'Women's Wear' is a scandalous, gossipy publication. Sure we have gossip; we also have some very, very solid business stories. We are a creation of this business, which is fast, mean, tough, sometimes artistic, sometimes horrible.

  

  John Fairchild
  • People
  • Women
  • Business

• Karl Marx and Adam Smith both subscribed to this view. They both saw successful growth as dependent on the development of efficient property rights. Their followers appear in the main to have forgotten this.

  

  Douglass North
  • Growth

• I began to study again, and now for the first time really achieved an understanding of the content of the Jew Karl Marx's life effort. Only now did his Capital become really intelligible to me, and also the struggle of the Social Democracy against the national economy, which aims only to prepare the ground for the domination of truly international finance and stock exchange capital.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Democracy
  • Study
  • Achieved

• Our incomes should be like our shoes; if too small, they will gall and pinch us; but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton
  • Small
  • Shoes