Little Things Quotes - Page 20

• Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before.

  Oscar Wilde

  Civilization, Progress, Littles

  Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.257, Oxford University Press

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• And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know its flood also. For what is your friend that your should seek with him hours to kill? Seek with him always hours to live. For it is his to fill your need, but not your emptiness. And in the sweetness of friendship, let there be laughter, and the sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.

  Khalil Gibran

  Morning, Laughter, Fun

  Khalil Gibran, “Friendship IXX”

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• You can always tell when the relationship is over. Little things start getting on your nerves, 'Would you please stop that! That breathing in and out, it's so repetitious.'

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Funny Relationship, Breathing, Nerves

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• You know what they do in San Francisco? Some in the gay community there, they want to get people. So if they got the stuff they’ll have a ring, you shake hands and the ring’s got a little thing where you cut your finger. Really. It’s that kind of vicious stuff, which would be the equivalent of murder.

  Pat Robertson

  Cutting, Gay, San Francisco

  "Pat Robertson Suggests Gays With AIDS Wear Rings To Cut, Infect Others". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2013.

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• Getting a burp out of your little thing when she needs it is probably the greatest satisfaction I've come across at this point in my life.

  Brad Pitt

  Baby, Needs, Littles

  "My List" by Brad Pitt, www.esquire.com. October 1, 2006.

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• See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things

  Laozi

  Badass, Greatness, Simplicity

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.

  Euripides

  Gossip, Littles, Tongue

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his principle of constructing a lighthouse, by noticing the trunk of a tree to be diminished from a curve to a cyclinder ... and Newton, turning an old box into a water-clock, or the yard of a house into a sundial, are examples of those habits of patient observation which scientific biography attractively recommends.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Science, Men, Curves

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• Inches make champions.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Adversity, Champion

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• [At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things that no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues.

  Charles Kingsley

  Knowledge, Character, Science

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “The Water-babies a Fairy Tale for a Land-baby by the Rev. Charles Kingsley”, p.385

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• This small little thing, which was started to give people a way of life, with love and dedication, shall prevail in the coming change of the Age.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Dedication, People, Giving

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• All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Work, Done, Littles

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• Every little thing you do leads up to a bigger thing.

  Georges St-Pierre

  Ufc, Mma, Littles

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• Just wonderin', waitin', worryin' about some silly little things, that just don't add up to nothin'.

  Tom Petty

  Silly, Expression, Add

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• I originated a remark many years ago that I think has been copied more than any little thing that I've ever said, and I used it in the follies of 1922. I said America has a unique record. We never lost a war and we never won a conference in our lives. I believe that we could without any degree of egotism, single-handed lick any nation in the world. But we can't confer with Costa Rica and come home with our shirts on.

  Will Rogers

  War, Believe, Home

  "The Will Rogers Book". Book by Paula McSpadden Love, 1972.

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• Little things do matter. Sometimes, little things matter the most. Everybody pays a lot of attention to big things, but nobody seems to understand that big things are almost always made up of little things. When you ignore little things, they often turn into big things that have become a lot harder to handle.

  Andy Andrews

  Attention, Littles, Pay

  Andy Andrews (2013). “The Noticer Returns: Sometimes You Find Perspective, and Sometimes Perspective Finds You”, p.13, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Ive been competitive since day one. Even in little things as a child, like having a twin and a direct competitor for who makes better cookies.

  Gracie Gold

  Children, Littles, Cookies

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• The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Eye, Society, Littles

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4092, Delphi Classics

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• I have always looked after the little things of my business; weightier matters will take care of themselves.

  Collis Potter Huntington

  Care, Littles, Matter

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• A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.

  Blaise Pascal

  Comfort, Littles, Trifles

  Blaise Pascal, Thomas Adam, Edward Bickersteth (1833). “Thoughts on religion”, p.121

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• The atom has taught me that the little things do count - most.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Atoms, Littles, Taught

  "Meditations: Food For The Soul (June 5)". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

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• It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts made by successive generations of men--the little bits of knowledge and experience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into a mighty pyramid.

  Samuel Smiles

  Art, Men, Pyramids

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.100

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• Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Men, Littles, Busy

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• I am a little thing, a tiny little thing on the vast prairies. I know nothing. My mouth is dirty. I cannot tell what I want. My feet are sunk in the black swampy land, but I am a lover. I love life. In the end love shall save me.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Dirty, Love Life, Land

  Sherwood Anderson (2006). “Mid-American Chants”, p.3, Quale Press

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• Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments.

  Gregory J. P. Godek

  Love You, Romance, Hug

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