Small World Quotes

• The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world.

  John Huston

  Loneliness, Together, World

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

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• It's a small world, but we all run in big circles.

  Sasha Azevedo

  Running, Circles, World

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• It's a small world. It keeps recrossing itself.

  David Mitchell

  World

  David Mitchell (2012). “Cloud Atlas (Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition): A Novel”, p.419, Random House Group

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• I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Change, Positive

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• It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Work, Humor

  "The Secret of All Art" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 3, 2015.

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• Be nice. (The world is a small town.)

  Austin Kleon

  Nice, World, Towns

  "8 Questions with Best Selling Author Austin Kleon". Interview with David W. Wright, sterlingandstone.net.

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• We live in a small world, and we all are affected by everything that happens everywhere. And to look at it less selfishly, we also need to be grateful for the luck of where we're born and how we ended up where we ended up.

  Natalie Portman

  Grateful, Luck, Needs

  "Natalie Portman on Her New Role: Giving Women Hope". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 25, 2011.

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• The world is now too small for anything but brotherhood.

  A. Powell Davies

  Brotherhood, World, Politics

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• If we are to prosper together in our increasingly small world, we must listen to -- and learn from each other's stories

  Queen Noor of Jordan

  Together, Stories, World

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• We live in a small world. Not a leaf falls that doesn't affect a myriad of things. When we reach out to someone in love and the effect is made - everyone, everything which comes in contact with the person we've effected is better for it. Of course, the converse is true, too.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Fall, World, Made

  Interview with Veronica M. Hay, A Magazine of People and Possibilities, www.peopleandpossibilities.com. 1998.

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• Just about anybody is a big girl in a small world but you gotta believe it on the inside, that you can be bigger than the rest of it.

  Lizzo

  Girl, Believe, World

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• It seems that the brain has a "small world" architecture - or at least the cortex does. Everything can connect to everything else in a few synaptic steps.

  Patricia Churchland

  Brain, Doe, World

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• It's not a small world! It's a painful, ugly world!

  Kane

  Wwe, World, Ugly

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• The Nile Project is the performing side of an effort that also includes education in music and environmental issues, raising awareness of the entire Nile basin as an ecosystem. With such vibrant music, the good intentions were a bonus; the Nile Project was a superb example of what I call small-world music, of what happens to traditions in the information age.

  Jon Pareles

  Issues, Ecosystems, Effort

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• The opportunity to create a small world between two pieces of cardboard, where time exists yet stands still, where people talk and I tell them what to say, is exciting and rewarding.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Opportunity, Two, People

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• The point is, Mrs. MacDonagh, that the universe is exactly the size that your soul can encompass. Some people live in extremely small worlds, and some live in a world of infinite possibility.

  Kevin Hearne

  People, Soul, World

  Kevin Hearne (2014). “The Iron Druid Chronicles 6-Book Bundle: Hounded, Hexed, Hammered, Tricked, Trapped, Hunted”, p.221, Del Rey

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• We can do no great things-only small things with great love.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Life, Sad

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• It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  World, Cemetery

  "Cat's Cradle". Book by Kurt Vonnegut, ch. 31, 1963.

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• It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.

  Clive Barker

  Phrases, World, Realizing

  Clive Barker (1984). “Clive Barker's Books of Blood: Volumes One, Two and Three”

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• This little world, this little state, this little commonwealth of our own.

  Woodrow Wilson

  College, World, Littles

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link (1973). “The Papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Your playing small doesn't serve the world.

  Marianne Williamson

  Confidence, Fear, Insecure

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• It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where people are absolutely indifferent to you, where your message is nothing more than a crazy tale belonging to a bygone age, can you believe God there?

  Oswald Chambers

  Crazy, Believe, Long

  Oswald Chambers (2011). “The Quotable Oswald Chambers”, p.497, Discovery House

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• But how can you walk away from something and still come back to it?" "Easy," said the cat. "Think of somebody walking around the world. You start out walking away from something and end up coming back to it." "Small world," said Coraline. "It's big enough for her," said the cat. "spiders' webs only have to be large enough to catch flies." Coraline shivered.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cat, Thinking, Walking Away

  Neil Gaiman (2012). “Coraline”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing

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