Little Things Quotes - Page 5

• You've turned into quite a bossy little thing," Myrnin said. "I think I might like it.

  Rachel Caine

  Thinking, Littles, Might

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• Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Littles, Strange

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• If you will lie about the little things, before long you’ll lie about bigger things.

  Joel Osteen

  Lying, Long, Littles

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• All that Ruby said was so horribly true, she was leaving everything she cared for. She had laid up her treasures on earth only. She had lived solely for the little things of life, the things that pass, forgetting the great things that go onward into eternity bridging the gulf between the two lives and making of death a mere passing of one dwelling to the other. From twilight to unclouded day. ...it was no wonder her soul clung in blind helplessness to the only things she knew and loved.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Twilight, Two, Dwelling

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• You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.

  Benedict Freedman

  Important, Goes On, Littles

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• When little things are so important, it's because there aren't any big ones.

  Benedict Freedman

  Important, Littles, Bigs

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• I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried.

  John Swartzwelder

  Attitude, Trying, Frowning

  John Swartzwelder (2004). “The Time Machine Did It”

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• Little by little things began to assume a new aspect. The sense of insecurity vanished, words came of themselves, I was no longer so painfully conscious of everything I said. I drank on and felt the great soft wave approach and embrace me; the dark hour began to fill with pictures and stealthily the noiseless procession of dreams appeared again superimposed on the dreary, grey landscape of existence.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Dream, Dark, Insecurity

  Erich Maria Remarque (1937). “Three Comrades”

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• Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Childhood, Phrases, Veils

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being bored out of their skulls and feeling depressed, then being consoled by some little thing like watching the patterns the light makes through the leaves of trees, casting shadows on the sidewalks. I remember the line from that poem now. Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

  Kim Addonizio

  Beautiful, Baby, Falling In Love

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• I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Four, Littles

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• We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.

  Clay Shirky

  Wikipedia, Done, World

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• Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot; fry them, boil them and eat them hot?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wings, Bird, Hot

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Flower, Passion

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• I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I’m a weak person, that I bruise easily, don’t you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It’s like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Mean, Thinking

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• The little things that you do From across the room I see you sendin' me clues They're in the way You make me move

  Demi Lovato

  Moving, Littles, Way

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• There... Poor little things. You see them? Standing with their numbers on their blank, indifferent faces, Nuremberg in miniature, the ranks of painted wooden men... Poor dominoes. Your pretty empire took so long to build, now, with a snap of history's fingers down it goes.

  Alan Moore

  Men, Numbers, Long

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• Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. It is each little thing that you do that day - whether it be spending time with your friends, running in a cross-country meet or just simply staring at the crashing ocean- that holds the key to discovering the meaning of life. I would rather be out enjoying these things than pondering them. We may never really discover the meaning of life, but the knowledge we gain in our quest to discover it is truly more valuable.

  Jack Canfield

  Country, Running, Ocean

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• Death’s a funny thing. I used to think it was a big, sudden thing, like a huge owl that would swoop down out of the night and carry you off. I don’t anymore. I think it’s a slow thing. Like a thief who comes to your house day after day, taking a little thing here and a little thing there, and one day you walk round your house and there’s nothing there to keep you, nothing to make you want to stay. And then you lie down and shut up forever. Lots of little deaths until the last big one.

  Neil Gaiman

  Lying, Night, Thinking

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• I take pleasure in the little things. Double cheeseburgers, those are good, the sky ten minutes before it rains,the moment your laugh turns into a cackle. And I sit here, and smoke my Camel straights, and I ride my own melt.

  Ethan Hawke

  Rain, Sky, Laughing

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• You let him go alone? (Kat) Well, given the fact that it was in this time zone and there’s a little thing outside called the sun...yeah. Burnt-up Daimon wouldn’t be helpful to nobody, least of all me and my tailor. (Damien)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Time Zones, Littles, Tailors

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.284, Macmillan

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• The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to their reason. Think things out before they act. But maybe they never heard what Dr. London told me one, Freud said that for the little things in life we should react according to our reason. But for really big decisions, we should heed what our unconscious tells us.

  Erich Segal

  Thinking, Things In Life, Decision

  Erich Segal (1977). “Oliver's Story”

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• Under certain circumstances the fateful decisions in life, sometimes even in matters of life and death, are made with an almost indifferent ease. While the little things-for instance, the way people hang on to what is over-seem so important.

  Peter Høeg

  People, Life And Death, Decision

  Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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• My parents died a long time ago. And you know the sad thing? I still miss them every day. I spent my entire youth fighting with my dad over every little thing and damned if I wouldn’t sell my soul to see him one more time and tell him I was sorry for the last words I said to him. Words I can never take back that should have never been said. So call your mom. No matter what kind of relationship you have with your parents, I swear to you, you’ll miss them when they’re gone. (Kyrian)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Mom, Dad, Sorry

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2016). “Chronicles of Nick”, p.100, St. Martin's Griffin

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• how can a little thing be so annoying?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Littles, Annoying, Alice Cullen

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