Small Parts Quotes - Page 3

• A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.

  Masanobu Fukuoka

  Doe, Process, Farmers

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• The American Revolution was a small part of a major world war going on between France and England, so the French intervened and that was a big factor, but the domestic contribution was basically guerrilla warfare.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, France And England, World

  Source: thehumanist.com

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When I am chopping trees out in the woods because I heat my house with wood, I feel myself right in the middle of God. Mahalia Jackson said "I have seen God. I have seen the sun rise." So, in a sense, when anyone looks in the mirror, they look at an infinitesimally small part of God.

  Pete Seeger

  Mirrors, House, Tree

  Source: portside.org

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• Chinese landscape paintings often include tiny figures - as if to emphasize the grandeur of nature of which humankind is one small part. Think of the world in these terms, as larger in scale than the human. This is a healthy corrective to the commonplace view that people own the land, which exists to serve their purposes. Think big and live small.

  Barbara Ann Kipfer

  Thinking, Views, Land

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• No matter how much one may love the world as a whole, one can live fully in it only by living responsibly in some small part of it. Where we live and who we live there with define the terms of our relationship to the world and to humanity. We thus come again to the paradox that one can become whole only by the responsible acceptance of one's partiality.

  Wendell Berry

  Acceptance, Humanity, World

  Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.118, Counterpoint

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• If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.

  Yasmina Khadra

  Jealous, Heart, Want

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• If I didn't have a recruiting engagement, I was going to be here. I did everything possible to change the recruiting thing. I'm a very small part of this night, but I did want to be a part of it.

  Rick Pitino

  Night, Engagement, Want

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• Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

  Edith Wharton

  Archer, Thinking, People

  Edith Wharton (2010). “The Age of Innocence”, p.101, Bibliolis Books

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• One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it.

  Thomas Sowell

  Fire, Average, Dollar Bills

  "Barbarians Inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays". Book by Thomas Sowell, 1999.

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• I'd rather have a small part in a good film with good people than play the lead in something I don't really care for.

  Michael Biehn

  Play, People, Care

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The corporate right and the political right declared class warfare on working people a quarter of a century ago and they've won. Take the paradox of Rush Limbaugh, ensconced in a Palm Beach mansion massaging the resentments across the country of white-knuckled wage earners, who are barely making ends meet in no small part because of the corporate and ideological forces for whom Rush has been a hero.

  Bill Moyers

  Country, Beach, Hero

  "FactCheck.org is Sponsored by Decidedly LEFTIST Organization: ANNENBERG Public Policy Foundation" by Biochemky, www.freerepublic.com. October 13, 2008.

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• A thought no less than a thing, an idea equally with an empire, is resolved into a complex of infinitely extensive relations between infinitesimally small parts.

  Sangharakshita

  Ideas, Empires, Relation

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• Every time I would arrive in China I would go through a few days of depression from being reminded of both short-term and long-term ruin; the ruining of the city that is happening in the short-term, and the ruining of culture and history that has happened over decades. When you see a building that says so much about the culture that built it being destroyed, there are a lot of emotions. You feel a lot of anger when you see a building being destroyed and realize that it's just a small part of what's going on in the entire country.

  Sze Tsung Leong

  Country, Cities, Long

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Each of us is a small part of God's plan. I'm a small part. I create paintings that are being used by God.

  Thomas Kinkade

  God's Plan, Painting, Used

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• I really am only one infinitely small part of an aching humanity.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Humanity

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