Littles Quotes - Page 21

• What on earth are you wearing? Did you take orders in a convent since we spoke last? Little Sisters of the Drab and Homely.

  Tessa Dare

  Order, Little Sister, Earth

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• In our new age of terrifying, lethal gadgets, which supplanted so swiftly the old one, the first great aggressive war, if it should come, will be launched by suicidal little madmen pressing an electronic button. Such a war will not last long and none will ever follow it. There will be no conquerors and no conquests, but only the charred bones of the dead on and uninhabited planet.

  William L. Shirer

  War, Suicidal, Long

  William L. Shirer (2011). “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• We're raising children who have little tolerance for disappointment

  Brené Brown

  Children, Disappointment, Tolerance

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• I have learned to look upon each little hindrance as a jest and each great one as a foreshadowing of victory.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Victory, Looks, Jest

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “ANNE SHIRLEY Complete Series - ALL 14 Books in One Volume: Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Rainbow Valley, The Story Girl, Chronicles of Avonlea and more: Including the Memoirs & Letters of Lucy Maud Montgomery”, p.635, e-artnow

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• Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit..." --Ivan Karamazov

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Spring, Believe, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2002). “The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts With Epilogue”, p.230, Macmillan

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• You read too much and understand too little.

  Robert Jordan

  Too Much

  "The Shadow Rising". Book by Robert Jordan, 1992.

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• When she set Shane’s glass of Coke down in front of him, she did it with probably a little too much emphasis; he glanced up at her with a question-mark expression.[...] ‘‘What?’’ Shane asked her, and took a drink. ‘‘Did I forget to say thanks? Because, thanks. Best Coke ever. Did you make it yourself? Special recipe?

  Rachel Caine

  Glasses, Expression, Special

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• They were partners. She would always make impulsive decisions and he would make slow, reasoned ones. He would always be a little terrified that she would look at him with the scorn he saw in his mother's eyes. And she would always be a little terrified that he would look at her and not love her enough. In short, they were made for each other.

  Eloisa James

  Mother, Eye, Decision

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• When nobody will look at you, you can stare a hole in them. Picking out all the little details you'd never stare long enough to get if they'd even just return your gaze, this, this is your revenge.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Revenge, Long, Details

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• To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.

  George Orwell

  Loneliness, People, Age

  George Orwell (1974). “Burmese Days”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

  Herta Muller

  Long, Silence, Using Words

  "The Hunger Angel". Book by Herta Müller, 2012.

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• Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.

  Tove Jansson

  Lonely, Flower, Hair

  Tove Jansson (2006). “A Winter Book: Selected Stories”, Sort of Books

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• When you grow up", I said, "do you ever stop feeling little and weak?" "No," she says. "There's always a little frail and tiny thing inside, no matter how grown-up you are.

  David Almond

  Growing Up, Feelings, Tiny Things

  David Almond (2013). “My Name is Mina”, p.151, Hachette UK

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• I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Enough, Knows

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Echoes of the Jazz Age Collection: The Beautiful and Damned, Winter Dreams, The Great Gatsby, Babylon Revisited, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and many more”, p.357, e-artnow

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• I ask for nothing. / In return I give All. / There is no earning my Love. / No work needed, no effort / Save to listen to what is already heard, / To see what is already seen. / To know what is already known. / Do I seem to ask too little? / Would you give although I ask not? / Then this you can give me and I will accept. / I will take your heart. / You will find it waiting for you / When you return.

  Ki Longfellow

  Heart, Giving, Effort

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• Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, "Hippo!" Which I thought was a little late. ~Carter Kane

  Rick Riordan

  Late, Hippo, Behinds

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• His hands skim my bare arms. “Just bounce a little when you walk,” he says, kissing my forehead, “and pretend you’re afraid of their guns” —another kiss between my eyebrows— “and act like the shrinking violet you could never be ”—a kiss on my cheek— “and you’ll be fine.

  Veronica Roth

  Kissing, Gun, Hands

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• Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Thinking, People

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• Shane: "Bro," he said, in an injured tone, "I had to go out with a flamethrower, and you weren't there to see it." Michael: "Pics or it didn't happen." Shane: "Dude, little busy for pics. You know, throwing flame." - Black Dawn

  Rachel Caine

  Flames, Black, Dawn

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• What irritated her most was that they kept brushing off her arguments with patronizing smiles, making her feel like a teenager being quizzed on her homework. Without actually uttering a single inappropriate word, they displayed towards her an attitude that was so antediluvian it was almost comical. You shouldn't worry your pretty head over complex matters, little girl.

  Steig Larsson

  Girl, Attitude, Teenager

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• The broader problem is that a great deal of popular preaching and teaching uses the bible as a pegboard on which to hang a fair bit of Christianized pop psychology or moralizing encouragement, with very little effort to teach the faithful, from the Bible, the massive doctrines of historic confessional Christianity.

  D. A. Carson

  Encouragement, Teaching, Effort

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• Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic. - Sleepless in Seattle

  Nora Ephron

  Romantic, Home, Hands

  "Fictional character: Sam Baldwin". "Sleepless in Seattle", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• Because, as we all know, it’s easier to do trivial things that are urgent than it is to do important things that are not urgent, like thinking. And it’s also easier to do little things we know we can do than to start on big things that we’re not so sure about.

  John Cleese

  Thinking, Important, Little Things

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• It was not fair, it was not fair, it was not fair. So cried his child's heart, and then his child's heart died a little. For that is also the way of the world.

  Stephen King

  Children, Heart, World

  Stephen King (2012). “The Wind Through the Keyhole: A Dark Tower Novel”, p.256, Simon and Schuster

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• For you know that it's a fool who plays it cool, by making his world a little colder.

  Paul McCartney

  Play, World, Fool

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