Little Things Quotes - Page 32

• The most romantic things a man can do for a woman are the little things that let her know that she's on his mind and in his heart.

  Joshua Harris

  Boyfriend, Heart, Men

  Joshua Harris (2009). “Boy Meets Girl: Say Hello to Courtship”, p.83, Multnomah

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• Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

  Bear Bryant

  Motivational, Leadership, Sports

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• We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Sacrifice, Littles, Philanthropy

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• We try to stress the little things because little things lead to big things.

  Steve Alford

  Basketball, Motivational Sports, Stress

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• Don't think that I'm silly for liking it, I just happen to like the simple little things, and I love cats!

  Michelle Gardner

  Silly, Cat, Simple

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• I never understood why people want to do big things... Just do little things, with great Love.

  Heidi Baker

  Compassion, People, Great Love

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• I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.

  Tony Dorsett

  Football, Strong, Practice

  "Dallas Cowboys Legend Tony Dorsett: Bleacher Report Exclusive Interview". Interview with Jason Henry, bleacherreport.com. JANUARY 17, 2011.

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• I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff. I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided. It's a real thing, double nature. I think we're split in a much more devastating way than psychology can ever reveal. It's not so cute. Not some little thing we can get over. It's something we've got to live with

  Sam Shepard

  Cute, Real, Writing

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• At sixteen, I was a funny, skinny little thing, all eyelashes and legs. And then, suddenly people told me it was gorgeous. I thought they had gone mad.

  Twiggy

  Eyelashes, People, Mad

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• Realize that little things lead to bigger things.

  Pete Seeger

  Littles, Realizing, Bigger

  "We Shall Overcome: An Hour with Legendary Folk Singer & Activist Pete Seeger". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. September 4, 2006.

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• One of the greatest resources people cannot mobilize themselves is that they try to accomplish great things. Most worthwhile achievements are the result of many little things done in a single direction.

  Nido R Qubein

  Inspirational, Worthwhile Things, People

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• We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Memories, Sky, Smell

  Alexander McCall Smith (1998). “The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency”

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• Everyone expects us to have a sense of urgency for life's big things. Life measures us by how we engage ourselves in the little things.

  Bob Proctor

  Littles, Bigs, Big Things

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 28, 2011

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• How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Littles, Christian Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Christian

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.17, SCM Press

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• Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

  Blaise Pascal

  Jesus, Deeds, Littles

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• Four ducks on a pond, / A grass-bank beyond, / A blue sky of spring, / White clouds on the wing: / What a little thing / To remember for years - / To remember with tears!.

  William Allingham

  Spring, Sky, Wings

  'A Memory'

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• Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad.

  Harper Lee

  Flower, Good Luck, Two

  Harold Bloom, Harper Lee (2010). “Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird”, p.36, Infobase Publishing

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• It's OK to do cute little things like kissing a turtle, but you can't kiss another person because he's a different color? Give me a break. And you have to remember, I'm from Dallas, Texas.

  Aaron Spelling

  Cute, Kissing, Turtles

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• It's the little things that count, hundreds of them.

  Cliff Shaw

  Littles, Bold Actions, Counting

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• When I cut myself I feel so much better. All the little things that might have been annoying me suddenly seem so trivial, because I'm concentrating on the pain

  Richey Edwards

  Depression, Pain, Cutting

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• This day relenting God
  Hath placed within my hand
  A wondrous thing; and God
  Be praised. At His command,
  Seeking His secret deeds
  With tears and toiling breath,
  I find thy cunning seeds,
  O million-murdering Death.
  I know this little thing
  A myriad men will save.
  O Death, where is thy sting?
  Thy victory, O Grave?
  Poem he wrote following the discovery that the malaria parasite was carried by the amopheline mosquito.

  Ronald Ross

  God, Men, Discovery

  Philosophies (1910) "In Exile" pt. 7 (describing his part in discovering the life-cycle of the malaria parasite in 1897; cf. Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1979) 77:1)

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• I didn't feel good today- little things here and there- but that's the nature of this game. You just keep pushing, being mentally and physically ready. Some days are better than others, but even if you don't feel so good, you get yourself going.

  Mike Matheny

  Life, Motivational, Baseball

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• The great doing of little things, makes the great life.

  Eugenia Price

  Life, Littles

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• I have a little office in my house and it is an absolute pigsty but I know exactly where everything is and there are little things stuck all over the walls, and papers in in-trays and files I have saved on my computer and playlists I have made on my iTunes - things that take me to a place that I think is appropriate.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Wall, Thinking, Office

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• Here's the best birth control in the whole world, if you really, if you have no pills, if you have no diaphragm, if you have no other form of contraception. Use it for ladies, if he comes at you with that little thing in his hand, just laugh at it. They can't deal with it, OK, it'll be gone.

  Robin Williams

  Hands, Laughing, Use

  Source: blankonblank.org

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