Small Quotes

• Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Small
  • Prayer

• Desires collide; the wish to eat bumping up against the wish to be thin, the desire to indulge conflicting with the injunction to restrain. Small wonder food makes a woman nervous.

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Up
  • Food
  • Desire

• The RFA requires federal agencies to assess the economic impact of their regulations on small firms, and if significant, consider less burdensome alternatives. Federal agencies sometimes fail to comply at all, or simply 'check the box,' fulfilling the letter of the law, while missing the purpose of the law entirely.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Law
  • Purpose
  • Missing

• Sometimes parents, when they have a lot of small children, it's hard because your time's got to get divvied up. There's no other way.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone.

  

  Ellen Gilchrist
  • Life
  • Small
  • Habit

• I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

  

  Brené Brown
  • People
  • Small

• Recipe For Happiness Khaborovsk Or Anyplace' One grand boulevard with trees with one grand cafe in sun with strong black coffee in very small cups. One not necessarily very beautiful man or woman who loves you. One fine day.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Beautiful
  • Black
  • Strong

• Was this the big one or was this the small tremor, the warning? Does it get better - does the sensation of being in a dream underwater go away?

  

  A.M. Homes
  • Dream
  • Small

• I think my songs are singing to the rural heart. It's not whether you're from a big city or the middle of nowhere in a small town.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • Heart
  • City
  • Singing

• I love surfing and bodysurfing. I love getting slammed by the waves - that makes me feel alive. The waves are a good reminder that I'm small and fragile.

  

  Jason Mraz
  • Good
  • Feels
  • Alive

• There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Long
  • Peace
  • Powerful

• I wanted to restore an ancient house in Kent, and that's what I did. It was a heap - this Tudor building with the beams painted lime green, so hideous. And I had this idea that I'd love the small village life, with the Range Rover and the dogs and baking cookies for the Y.W.C.A. But then it got so boring.

  

  Christine McVie Fleetwood Mac
  • Life
  • House
  • Green

• Thus, the word is more essential than cement. Thus, the word is not a small nothing. In this manner, noble people begin to grow, and their word will break cement.

  

  Nadezhda Tolokonnikova
  • People
  • Small

• Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• It used to be that, in astronomy, a small team of people could look at photos of a few thousand galaxies and classify and catalog them relatively easily. But now, with a new generation of robotic telescopes scanning the skies constantly and producing millions of images, that's become next to impossible.

  

  Peter Diamandis
  • People
  • Small
  • Team

• Life is too short to waste time changing the sheets every week. Especially when you have small children who tend to wait until you change the sheets to then wet the sheets.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • Life
  • Time
  • Children

• Meanwhile, Cynthia and I are busy fixing up a real old house that we just bought in Hollywood. With two children now, we just couldn't live in our small rented home any longer.

  

  Kent McCord
  • Up
  • Live
  • Children

• We may seem insignificantly small, but we exist. So I remain optimistic.

  

  James Rosenquist
  • May
  • Small
  • Optimistic

• A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.

  

  Clarence Stein
  • House
  • Light
  • Space

• It's really easy to take something small and make it big in your head and fight against it.

  

  Norman Reedus
  • Small
  • Fight
  • Head

• It's so funny, because when I was growing up in a small town in New Hampshire, I was obsessed with Leonardo DiCaprio - from the 'Growing Pains'/'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' era, because he was superhot - and I carried a laminated photo of him in my wallet and said he was my boyfriend. But no one believed me.

  

  Eliza Coupe
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Growing

• I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

  

  Jim Broadbent
  • Small

• The fast fish, not the big fish, eats the small fish.

  

  Ali Babacan
  • Small

• Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequence: it affects personality for better or for worse.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Small
  • Personality

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