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Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.
Paul Ryan

Life, Morning, Business

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.
Robert Orben

Happiness, Big, Desk

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
Christian Nestell Bovee

Life, Greater, Ennoble

An actor's popularity is fleeting. His success has the life expectancy of a small boy who is about to look into a gas tank with a lighted match.
Fred Allen

Life, Success, Actor

Masculinity is not something given to you, but something you gain. And you gain it by winning small battles with honor.
Norman Mailer

Winning, Honor, Gain

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Lane Allen

Great, May, Thoughts

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.
Xenophon

Best, May, Able

The number one rule of thieves is that nothing is too small to steal.
Jimmy Breslin

Nothing, Number, Rule

For the person for whom small things do not exist, the great is not great.
Jose Ortega y Gasset

Great, Person, Exist

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.
Bryant H. McGill

Stand, Meaningful, Grand

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.
Pindar

Great, Reality, Gift

I think one of my favorite things to do is just lock myself up in a small room and listen to music and watch films for a day. Also I just like seeing my friends. We have pizza parties which means I get four friends round, we eat a pizza and we're really lazy and we play PlayStation.
Daniel Radcliffe

Music, Lazy, Friends

The only people who steal are thieves, and that's a very small percentage of civilization. Most people want to have some way to make the economic transaction valid. They want to return the favor, if you will... return the benefit and reciprocate.
Michael Nesmith

Economic, Return, Thieves

Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a multitude of small distasteful changes that constitutes growing older.
John Dos Passos

Friends, Old, Older

We grow small trying to be great.
David Hockney

Great, Trying, Grow

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
Charles A. Beard

God, Power, History

If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
Anita Roddick

Try, Bed, Impact

Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.
Martha Graham

Dance, Whole, Miracle

That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Neil Armstrong

Step, Mankind, Leap

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
Henry A. Wallace

Fear, Democracy, Against

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
Leonard Cohen

Try, Writer, Explore

No community values entrepreneurship and small business more than the Hispanic community.
Marco Rubio

Business, Values, Community

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Time, Home, Live

I enjoy those small chats you have when people come up and talk to you about your work. It only involves a few seconds of effort to be nice to those people, and I am very grateful for the kind words that people have taken the trouble to express to me in person.
Helena Bonham Carter

Work, Nice, Person

It was in the 1920s, when nobody had time to reflect, that I saw a still-life painting with a flower that was perfectly exquisite, but so small you really could not appreciate it.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Time, Flower, Nobody

People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
Carly Fiorina

Cannot, Worth, Ideas

I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do.
Lenny Bruce

Hate, Nothing, Else

Thankfully, I have my mom and a small group of close friends who are there for me 24/7 and whom I can trust and depend on.
Christina Aguilera

Trust, Mom, Friends

I knew I wanted to sing when I was a very small boy. When I was probably 4 years old. My mother played a guitar and I would sit with her and she would sing and I learned to sing along with her.
Johnny Cash

Mother, Guitar, Learned

I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal.
Heidi Klum

Goal, Acting, Making

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