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I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Good, Mistakes, Advice

I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker.
Robert Downey, Jr.

Acting, Gifted, Incredibly

I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Time, Winning, May

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Christopher Morley

Best, Water, Sky

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
Princess Diana

Loved, Read, Boy

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but a little want of knowledge is also a dangerous thing.
Samuel Butler

Knowledge, Dangerous

Figure skating is an unlikely Olympic event but its good television. It's sort of a combination of gymnastics and ballet. A little sexy too which doesn't hurt.
Andy Rooney

Good, Hurt, Sexy

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome.
Epicurus

Rather, Second, Rome

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
Hans Christian Anderson

Freedom, Sunshine, Enough

If education is always to be conceived along the same antiquated lines of a mere transmission of knowledge, there is little to be hoped from it in the bettering of man's future. For what is the use of transmitting knowledge if the individual's total development lags behind?
Maria Montessori

Education, Future, Knowledge

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.
Alanis Morissette

Work, Good, Truth

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
Charles Baudelaire

Him, Suffering, Once

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?
James M. Barrie

Life, Try, Shall

Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.
Horace

Moment, Serious, Lovely

More die in the United States of too much food than of too little.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Food, Die, United

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
William Butler Yeats

Dreams, Round, Bag

Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don't mind going through a little bush to get there!
Minnie Pearl

Mind, Through, Kissing

A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.
Helen Rowland

Love, Heart, Woman

If you have a secret, people will sit a little bit closer.
Rob Corddry

Secret, Bit, Sit

Email, instant messaging, and cell phones give us fabulous communication ability, but because we live and work in our own little worlds, that communication is totally disorganized.
Marilyn vos Savant

Work, Live, Give

I was the little sister that was annoying.
Heidi Klum

Sister, Annoying

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so little hope for advancement.
Charles M. Schulz

Hope, Today, Tomorrow

Time passes, and little by little everything that we have spoken in falsehood becomes true.
Marcel Proust

Time, True, Falsehood

When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
Edwin Booth

Love, Good, Heart

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Life, Happiness, Smile

The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.
Charles Bronson

Fear, Anger, Betrayal

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
Babe Ruth

Good, Home, Bad

Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is only in dreams.
Charles Baudelaire

Dreams, True, Reality

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Enid Bagnold

Father, Woman, Again

Everyone is trying to accomplish something big, not realizing that life is made up of little things.
Frank A. Clark

Life, Trying, Big

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