Littles Quotes - Page 29

• If we hadn't hated him a lot, we might have liked him a little at that moment. But we did. So we didn't.

  Ally Carter

  Might, Moments, That Moment

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.106, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved.

  Mark Twain

  Mind, Belly

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.267, Courier Corporation

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• What would it be like to care so little about what other people thought of you?

  Cate Tiernan

  People, Care, Thoughts Of You

  Cate Tiernan (2007). “Book of Shadows: Book One”, p.9, Penguin

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• And then there was Tick. Brave little Tick, who had flown into the faces of an army of rats to save his baby sister. Tick - who never spoke much. Tick - who shared her food. Tick - who was after all just a roach. Just a roach who had given all the time she had left so that Boots could have more. Gregor pressed Boots's fingers against his lips and felt scalding tears begin to slide down his cheeks. He hadn't cried, not the whole time he'd been down here, and there had been plenty of bad stuff. But somehow Tick's sacrifice had crushed whatever thin shell remained between him and sorrow.

  Suzanne Collins

  Baby, Army, Sacrifice

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• I haven't any language weak enough to depict the weakness of my spiritual life. If I weakened it enough it would cease to be language at all. As when you try to turn the gas-ring a little lower still, and it merely goes out.

  C. S. Lewis

  Spiritual, Trying, Weakness

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• Look... we're getting to be old men, and we've spent our lives looking for the weaknesses in one another's systems. I can see through Eastern values just as you can see through our Western ones. Both of us, I am sure, have experienced ad nauseam the technical satisfactions of this wretched war. But now your own side is going to shoot you. Don't you think it's time to recognise that there is as little worth on your side as there is on mine?

  John le Carre

  War, Men, Thinking

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• Men don't rape women because their women are ugly," cousin Jostien said, but there was a protest at his words. "That's what my fa said! He says that inside their hearts and spirits they are nothing but little men who need to feel powerful.

  Melina Marchetta

  Cousin, Powerful, Heart

  Melina Marchetta (2015). “The Complete Lumatere Chronicles”, p.465, Penguin UK

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• Well, there's a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.

  Betty Smith

  Men, Wells, Every Man

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• I suppose everybody must be always just a little homesick.

  Joseph Conrad

  Homesick

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Nostromo”, p.58, Joseph Conrad

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• Nobody whom this war has touched will ever be happy again in quite the same way. But it will be a better happiness, I think, little sister - a happiness we've earned.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  War, Thinking, Little Sister

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2015). “Rilla of Ingleside”, p.118, Xist Publishing

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• Life has no meaning but what we give it. I wish a few more of ye would give it a little.

  Ed Greenwood

  Giving, Wish, Life Has No Meaning

  Ed Greenwood (2011). “Elminster: Making of a Mage”, p.15, Wizards of the Coast

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• I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

  Julian Barnes

  Years, Made, Happened

  Julian Barnes (2011). “The Sense of an Ending”, p.144, Random House

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• Dad at breakfast today being very quiet. I notice he is clean shaven. I said to him, "Vati, what has happened to the little beaver that used to live on the end of your chin?

  Louise Rennison

  Dad, Breakfast, Today

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• Ah! how little knowledge does a man acquire in his life. He gathers it up like water, but like water it runs between his fingers, and yet, if his hands be but wet as though with dew, behold a generation of fools call out, 'See, he is a wise man!' Is it not so?

  H. Rider Haggard

  Wise, Running, Stupid

  H. Rider Haggard (2011). “She: A History of Adventure”, p.146, Modern Library

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• So they crucified their Messiah? Well can I believe it. That He was a Son of the Living Spirit would be naught to them, if indeed He was so.... They would care little for any God if he came not with pomp and power.

  H. Rider Haggard

  Believe, Son, Would Be

  H. Rider Haggard (2011). “She: A History of Adventure”, p.149, Modern Library

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• One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Children, Giving, Bird

  "The Idiot".

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• I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.

  Arthur Golden

  Thinking, Mind, Swallowing

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• Tuck in your tail, little duck.

  Suzanne Collins

  Ducks, Tails

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.17, Scholastic Inc.

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• He does not ask much of us, merely a thought of Him from time to time, a little act of adoration, sometimes to ask for His grace, sometimes to offer Him your sufferings, at other times to thank Him for the graces, past and present, He has bestowed on you, in the midst of your troubles to take solace in Him as often as you can. Lift up your heart to Him during your meals and in company; the least little remembrance will always be the most pleasing to Him. One need not cry out very loudly; He is nearer to us than we think.

  Brother Lawrence

  Heart, Past, Thinking

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• Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

  Emile Zola

  Fool, Taught, Scared

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• Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Way, Persons

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2010). “A Life in Letters”, p.589, Simon and Schuster

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• Give me a mirror.Or holy water. I'll drink it,even!" I gasped as someone threw water on the side of my face. "A little warning next time would be nice.

  Kiersten White

  Nice, Mirrors, Giving

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• Jack! "Where have you been,you miserable little creep?" He raised his eyebrows,a look of mock hurt on his face."This is the thanks I get?" "Give me that bat and I'll show you how grateful I am, coward!

  Kiersten White

  Hurt, Grateful, Eyebrows

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• He's just a little unbalanced and lonely." He put his arms around my waist, frowning. "Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?" "I'll suggest it.

  Kiersten White

  Lonely, Girlfriend, Frowning

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• My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.

  Tyler Perry

  Running, Attitude, Mistake

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