Small Parts Quotes

There are no small parts. Only small actors.

Ginger Rogers

Actors, Theatre Acting, Actors And Acting

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Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

Constantin Stanislavski

Acting, Actors, Remember

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I'm just a beat up old third baseman. I'm just a small part of a wonderful game that is a tremendous part of America today.

Eddie Mathews

Games, America, Today

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We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are

Patricia Briggs

Perfect, Imperfection, Who We Are

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She doesn't know I cry for the changing times. That just as I reread favourite books, some small part of me hoping for a different ending, I find myself hoping against hope that the war will never come. That this time, somehow, it will leave us be.

Kate Morton

War, Book, Different

Kate Morton (2008). “The House at Riverton”, p.90, Pan Macmillan

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Not all that is presented to us as history has really happened; and what really happened did not actually happen the way it is presented to us; moreover, what really happened is only a small part of all that happened. Everything in history remains uncertain, the largest events as well as the smallest occurrence.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

History, Events, Way

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In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A generation from now, this solar heater can either be a curiosity, a museum piece, an example of a road not taken, or it can be just a small part of one of the greatest and most exciting adventures ever undertaken by the American people: harnessing the power of the Sun to enrich our lives as we move away from our crippling dependence on foreign oil.

Jimmy Carter

Life, Taken, Moving

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Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine.

C. S. Lewis

Prayer, Wine, Vision

C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.16, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Ambrose Bierce

Ignorance, Knowledge

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[When nature appears complicated:] The moment we contemplate it as it is, and attain a position from which we can take a commanding view, though but of a small part of its plan, we never fail to recognize that sublime simplicity on which the mind rests satisfied that it has attained the truth.

John Herschel

Nature, Truth, Science

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Try to find your individuality, your integrity, and make the effort of not compromising. Because the more you compromise, the less you are an individual. You are only a cog in the wheel, just a part in the vast mechanism, just a small part of the mob - not an individual in your own beauty, in your own right. I am absolutely against compromise. Death is far more beautiful than a life of compromise.

Rajneesh

Beautiful, Integrity, Effort

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A small part of her secretly hoped she caught him in bed. But that really was a very small part. The bigger part hoped he was in the shower.

Jill Shalvis

Bed, Bigger, Caught

FaceBook post by Jill Shalvis from Mar 04, 2013

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Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Regret, Fall, Greatness

Ralph Waldo Emerson (2015). “Essays”, p.37, Xist Publishing

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truly to enjoy bodily warmth, some small part of you must be cold, for there is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself. If you flatter yourself that you are all over comfortable, and have been so a long time, then you cannot be said to be comfortable any more.

Herman Melville

Long, Quality, World

Herman Melville (2006). “Moby Dick, the Whale: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.87, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Rory: "People are being serious." Jazza: "There's a serial killer out there. Of course people are being serious." Rory: "Yeah, but what are the chances?" Jazza: "I bet all of the victims thought that." Rory: "But still, what are the chances?" Jazza: "Well, I imagine they are several million to one." Jerome: "Not that high. You're only dealing with a small part of London. And while there might be a million or more people in that area, the Ripper is probably focusing on women, because all of the original victims were women. So halve that--" Jazza: "You really need another hobby.

Maureen Johnson

People, Serial Killer, Hobbies

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When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there … now instead of then.

Blaise Pascal

Space, Infinite, Eternity

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What is a snob? A snob is anybody who takes a small part of you and uses that to come to a complete vision of who you are. That is snobbery.

Alain de Botton

Vision, Use, Snob

"What's A Kinder Way To Frame Success?". Interview with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. November 1, 2013.

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All men lie when they are afraid. Some tell many lies, some but a few. Some have only one great lie they tell so often that they almost come to believe it... though some small part of them will always know that it is still a lie, and that will show upon their faces. (a servant in the House of Black and White)

George R. R. Martin

Lying, Believe, Black And White

George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.312, Bantam

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To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else.

Madeleine L'Engle

Growing Up, Drama, Grows

Madeleine L'Engle (2009). “The Ordering of Love: The New & Collected Poems of Madeleine L'Engle”, p.55, WaterBrook

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Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?

Pascal Mercier

Life, Philosophy, Given

Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.28, Atlantic Books Ltd

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Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources.

William James

Failure, Fire, Use

William James (1987). “Writings, 1902-1910”, p.1225, Library of America

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People have their own reasons for dying. It might look simple, but it never is. It's just like a rock. What's above ground is only a small part of it. But if you start pulling, it keeps coming and coming. The human mind dwells deep in darkness. Only the person himself knows the real reason, and maybe not even then.

Haruki Murakami

Real, Simple, Rocks

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My very small part in WATCHMEN is that, every now and then, Alan would phone me: ''Neil, you're an educated man. Where does it say...'' He would need a quote from the Bible, or an essay about owls. I was his occasional research assistant.

Neil Gaiman

Men, Phones, Owl

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What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

Barack Obama

Children, Father, World

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We each exist for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe

Stephen Hawking

Whole, Short Time, Universe

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