Little Things Quotes - Page 24

• Great things only require to be simply told, for they are spoiled by emphasis; but little things should be clothed in lofty language, as they are only kept up by expression, tone of voice, and style of delivery.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Expression, Voice, Style

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• In that film Love Story, there's a line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you're sorry every day for some little thing or other.

  Ray Bradbury

  Love, Sorry, Mean

  "Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203". Interview with Sam Weller, www.theparisreview.org. 2010.

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• I've seen many films, and many beautiful films. And I try to keep a certain level of quality of my films. I don't do commercials, I don't do films pre-prepared by other people, I don't do star system. So I do my own little thing.

  Agnes Varda

  Beautiful, Stars, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, film.avclub.com. June 30, 2009.

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• I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider myself the guy you'd want to hire to do Star Trek.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Stars, Guy, Cameras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• No matter how much you love someone, on a bad day, you could say something terrible. All of the little things that you are saving to say, that you're mad about but never express, sometimes come out, all at once. We all have these terrible moments. That's just part of being human.

  Judd Apatow

  Bad Day, Mad, Matter

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 21, 2012.

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• Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.

  Frederick William Faber

  Grief, Wings, Heaven

  Frederick William Faber (1857). “Poems ... Second edition”, p.198

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• It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Winning, Men, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 561), 1895.

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• Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From the large aggregate of little things; On these small cares of daughter, wife or friend, The almost sacred joys of home depend.

  Hannah More

  Daughter, Spring, Women

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.205

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• I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.

  William Saroyan

  Writing, Firsts, Littles

  William Saroyan (1964). “One day in the afternoon of the world”

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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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• Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Good Luck, Long, Waiting

  Sarah Orne Jewett, “A Four-Leaved Clover”

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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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• Life can be wonderful. Do your best not to miss it!” Enjoy what it is before it isn't anymore. Dare to slip on a pair of bunny slippers once in a while! Surprise yourself! Enjoy the little things because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things!

  Barbara Johnson

  Missing, One Day, Looks

  Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.219, Zondervan

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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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• A lot of learning canbe a little thing.

  Spike Milligan

  Littles

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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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• Every little thing wants to be loved.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Love, Bees And Honey, Want

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.92, Penguin

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• I don't think victory over death... is anything so superficial as a person fulfilling their normal span of life. It can be twofold; a victory over death by the man who faces it for himself without fear, and a victory by those who, loving him, know that death is but a little thing compared with the fact that he lived and was the kind of person he was.

  Vera Brittain

  Men, Thinking, Victory

  Winifred Holtby, Vera Brittain (1960). “Selected letters of Winifred Holtby and Vera Brittain, 1920-1935”

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• Oh, it was awful, and I vowed to myself I would never, ever push myself to the edge that much again. It was really frightening. Because absolutely everything seemed to be impossible to deal with, just little things became major - noise, if someone had a radio on, or even the sound of traffic, or being in someone's company for longer than 10 minutes - I started to find it all too much.

  Elaine Paige

  Radio, Littles, Noise

  "Show Girl". www.theguardian.com. April 16, 2000.

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• When you strip away all the little things that divide us, it's important to remember how tied we are

  William J. Clinton

  Important, Littles, Remember

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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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• As anyone who has ever fallen foul of an airport, a conventional hospital or a bad restaurant knows, misery is made up of little things.

  Katharine Whitehorn

  Airports, Littles, Misery

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• And just as a little thread of gold, running through a fabric, brightens the whole garment, so women's work at home, while only the doing of little things, like the golden gleam of sunlight runs through and brightens all the fabric of civilization.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Running, Home, Civilization

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