Small Words Quotes

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  This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

  Neil Armstrong

  Motivational, Positive, Moon

  In New York Times 31 July 1969, p. 20

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• Just one quality of the Buddha has to be remembered. He consists only of one quality: witnessing. This small word witnessing contains the whole of spirituality. Witness that you are not the body. Witness that you are not the mind. Witness that you are only a witness. As the witnessing deepens, you start becoming drunk with the divine. That is what is called ecstasy.

  Rajneesh

  Drunk, Mind, Quality

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• All the things I thought I was - simple and plain and sometime funny - are very small words. They do not begin to describe me. They do not begin to express what is inside of me. I have value, and I have worth. I cannot be replaced like old shoes or taken for granted like tap water.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Taken, Simple, Shoes

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• What a treasure is hidden in two small words: 'thank you!'

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Two, Treasure

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• I'll explain and I'll use small words so that you'll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.

  Cary Elwes

  Use, Princess Bride, Princes Bride

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• They think so small, they use small words. But not me, I'm smarter than that, I've worked it out. I'm stretching my mouth to let those big words come on out.

  Peter Gabriel

  Thinking, Use, Mouths

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• Love is about all the changes you make, and not just three small words

  Frank Turner

  Love Is, Three

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• I go through the text making sure I haven't used any big words. If I find any fancy adjectives have crept in, I replace them with small words like 'nice' and 'big'. I've liked these words ever since I was told not to use them in English class at school. After that, I check that the sentences are short so as people won't get confused and I shorten all the chapters so they won't get bored. I can't read anything complicated these days, my attention span is too short. Everyone else probably feels the same.

  Martin Millar

  Confused, Nice, School

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• That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils of Newton.... The phrases of last century in this Linger to play tricks- Vis viva and Vis Mortua and Vis Acceleratrix:- Those long-nebbed words that to our text books still Cling by their titles, And from them creep, as entozoa will, Into our vitals. But see! Tait writes in lucid symbols clear One small equation; And Force becomes of Energy a mere Space-variation.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Block, Book, Writing

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• One great aim of revision is to cut out. In the exuberance of composition it is natural to throw in - as one does in speaking - a number of small words that add nothing to meaning but keep up the flow and rhythm of thought. In writing, not only does this surplusage not add to meaning, it subtracts from it. Read and revise, reread and revise, keeping reading and revising until your text seems adequate to your thought.

  Jacques Barzun

  Reading, Writing, Cutting

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• The warrior knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words. Yes. Love. God. They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Warrior, Space

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• He knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Important, Language

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• Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter.

  Zhuangzi

  Great Knowledge, Universal, Chatter

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• Friend is a very small word, A little sound we make, For one who is true, one who will do, Great deeds for friendship's sake.

  Brian Jacques

  Sake, Sound, Deeds

  Brian Jacques (2004). “The Bellmaker: A Tale from Redwall”, p.109, Penguin

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• Tell me about our legal issues. And use small words. I don't like to think at this hour of the morning. It hurts." ~Leo to Merripen

  Lisa Kleypas

  Hurt, Morning, Thinking

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• Very well." He sat cross-legged on the floor of the cage. "You haven't run off so you want to talk. I will hear your explanation now." "Really, Your Majesty? So good of you to condescend. I'll try to use small words and go slow." "You're wasting my time. I know Jim betrayed me and you're covering for him. This is your chance to dazzle me wih your brillance or baffle me with your bullshit. You won't get another. When I get out, I won't be in the mood to listen.

  Ilona Andrews

  Running, Bullshit, Trying

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• No mother. Two small words, and yet within them lay a bottomless well of pain and loss, a ceaseless mourning for touches that were never received and words of wisdom that were never spoken. No single word was big enough to adequately describe the loss of your mother.

  Kristin Hannah

  Mother, Pain, Loss

  Kristin Hannah (2013). “Kristin Hannah's Coming Home 4-Book Bundle: On Mystic Lake, Summer Island, Distant Shores, Home Again”, p.117, Ballantine Books

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• Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.

  Jim Butcher

  Mean, Too Much

  Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.591, Penguin

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• It took me a moment. I blinked, and suddenly it swam into focus and I had to frown very hard to keep myself from giggling out loud like the schoolgirl Deb had accused me of being. Because he had arranged the arms and legs in letters, and the letters spelled out a single small word: BOO. The three torsos were carefully arranged below the BOO in a quarter-circle, making a cute little Halloween smile. What a scamp.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Cute, Halloween, Circles

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Darkly Dreaming Dexter”, p.170, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• When I can make Of ten small words a rope to hang the world! "I had you and I have you now no more.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Rope, World, Ten

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.125, eBookIt.com

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• I know why the Jews and Muslims have nine hundred names for God; one small word is not enough for love.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Names, Nine, Enough

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). “The Outlander Series 8-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone, Written in My Own Heart's Blood”, p.1986, Dell

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• If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

  Mark Twain

  Marriage, Husband, Wife

  Mark Twain (1966). “Mark Twain's Satires and Burlesques”, p.185, Univ of California Press

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• What then is to be the lot of Rossetti's fame and influence? 'An amateur who failed in two arts', it is true; yet it hardly harms Rossetti or touches his standing. On the contrary, it defines both very brilliantly. The small word 'failed' is a small word and little more to artists who are forever going on until they give up over a game that must be lost. Every artist, when confronted by the immensities of art, which is life, must confess to failure. A failure is a thing very relative.

  Ford Madox Ford

  Art, Giving Up, Games

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