Small Quotes

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Age, Romantic, Recognized

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.
Drew Barrymore

Hate, Hell, Voice

A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness.
Kevin Kelly

Society, Smart, Simple

No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God.
Saint Patrick

Good, God, Truth

Everyone, Republican or otherwise has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small, no one is too old or too young to do something.
Bobby Sands

Great, Play, Young

The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.
Vaclav Havel

Power, Powerful, Between

Be precise. A lack of precision is dangerous when the margin of error is small.
Donald Rumsfeld

Dangerous, Lack, Error

I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.
John Boehner

Great, Business, Dad

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.
Isaac Bashevis Singer

Great, True, Behind

Dream small dreams. If you make them too big, you get overwhelmed and you don't do anything. If you make small goals and accomplish them, it gives you the confidence to go on to higher goals.
John H. Johnson

Dreams, Confidence, Big

I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.
Ellen DeGeneres

Men, School, Wife

The presidency has made every man who occupied it, no matter how small, bigger than he was; and no matter how big, not big enough for its demands.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Made, Enough, Big

I am conservative with a small 'c.' It's possible to be conservative in fiscal policy, and tolerant on moral issues or questions of freedom of expression.
Mick Jagger

Freedom, Moral, Possible

Small things amuse small minds.
Doris Lessing

The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
Rupert Murdoch

Big, Fast, Anymore

Holidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family.
Kim Kardashian

Family, Best, Holidays

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
George Sand

Life, Faith, Words

Reservoir Dogs is a small film, and part of its charm was that it was a small film. I'd probably make it for $3 million now so I'd have more breathing room.
Quentin Tarantino

Film, Room, Dogs

I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.
Marilyn Manson

Mind, Fire, Genius

And what's interesting, and I don't think a lot of Americans understand this fact, is that, one, most new jobs are created by small businesses; two, most small businesses pay tax at the individual income tax, or many small businesses pay tax there.
George W. Bush

Two, Understand, Fact

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.
Bill Rancic

Courage, Business, Successful

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.
James Cash Penney

Great, Men, Material

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
David Friedman

Children, Problem, Poor

Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
Ralph Ransom

Life, Time, Done

In the successful organization, no detail is too small to escape close attention.
Lou Holtz

Successful, Attention, Escape

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

Shoes, Cause, Large

You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as you dominant aspiration.
James Allen

Great, Become, Desire

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
Pam Brown

Home, House, Changes

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.
Tom Stoppard

Writing, Getting, Felt

Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.
David Attenborough

Hell, Getting, Beyond

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