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Small gestures can have a big impact.
Julianna Margulies

Big, Impact, Gestures

There's another way we are getting behind business - by sorting out the banks. Taxpayers bailed you out. Now it's time for you to repay the favour and start lending to Britain's small businesses.
David Cameron

Time, Business, Another

Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.
Herschel Walker

Tough, Big, Dream

I'm trying to find a man to share my life with, but it's not been easy. I'm a 35-year-old woman with two small children.
Nicole Kidman

Life, Children, Woman

Journalists are always calling my features Edwardian or Victorian, whatever that means. I am small, and people were smaller in those times. I'm pale and sickly-looking. I look fragile-like a doll. But sometimes I just wish I had less of a particular look, one that was more versatile.
Helena Bonham Carter

Wish, Sometimes, Whatever

But it's often been the case, I've done so many countless small, independent films that really 3.2 people have seen, so you never know. You do it for the joy of the part and not necessarily expect anyone to see the final product.
Helena Bonham Carter

Done, Joy, Often

I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.
Aneurin Bevan

Sympathy, Rather, Alive

There is nothing more boring for an intelligent woman than to spend endless amounts of time with small children.
Doris Lessing

Time, Children, Woman

What's important at the grocery store is just as important in engines or medical systems. If the customer isn't satisfied, if the stuff is getting stale, if the shelf isn't right, or if the offerings aren't right, it's the same thing. You manage it like a small organization. You don't get hung up on zeros.
Jack Welch

Medical, Important, Same

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
Gloria Steinem

Space, Prison, Pedestal

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
Fernando Pessoa

Soul, Worthwhile

I'm not overly alarmist about it, but I do think there are some worrying signs, like the growing accumulation of wealth by a very small proportion of the population, plus elections in the US are much more dominated by money than anywhere else calling itself a democracy.
Peter Singer

Money, Democracy, Else

As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.
Joyce Carol Oates

Strange, Put, Child

A Latin teacher told me I might make a good actress, and that stuck in my memory. I did some modeling, and Polanski gave me that small part.
Jacqueline Bisset

Good, Teacher, Might

I'm from a small town so, like, everyone's married with children or about to have children. So it's a little hard when you go home and people are like - and that's why people think I'm gay - because they're like 'Why aren't you married?' And I'm like, 'it doesn't happen for everyone right off the bat.'
Kelly Clarkson

Home, Gay, Children

Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.
Sydney J. Harris

Knowledge, Brain, Large

People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or good breeding.
Van Wyck Brooks

Good, Knowledge, Breeding

There are no small churches, just small people.
Edwin Louis Cole

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Often, Found, Projects

He who has mingled in the fray of duty that the brave endure, must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done.
Charles Mackay

Work, Done, Made

As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time.
Julia Child

Time, Good, Food

The purpose of the United Nations should be to protect the essential sovereignty of nations, large and small.
Nikita Khrushchev

Purpose, United, Large

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.
Lawrence G. Lovasik

Yourself, May, Wrong

If Warren Buffett made his money from ordinary income rather than capital gains, his tax rate would be a lot higher than his secretary's. In fact a very small percentage of people in this country pay a big chunk of the taxes.
Michael Bloomberg

Money, Country, Made

It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
Annie Leibovitz

Metal, Camera, Modern

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.
Barry Levinson

Best, Happen, Enough

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?
Glenn Beck

Successful, Father, Problem

Yesterday I was thinking about the whole idea of genius and creative people, and the notion that if you create some magical art, somehow that exempts you from having to pay attention to the small things.
Bell Hooks

Art, Thinking, Creative

To those who ask what the infinitely small quantity in mathematics is, we answer that it is actually zero. Hence there are not so many mysteries hidden in this concept as they are usually believed to be.
Leonhard Euler

Actually, Ask, Answer

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one.
Samuel Richardson

Mind, Full, Large

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