Smallest Quotes - Page 12

• When man learns to respect even the smallest being of creation...nobody has to teach him to love his fellow man. Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Character, Animal, Men

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• I think that the Bible as literature should be a compulsory part of the national curriculum.. you can't understand English literature and culture without it. But insofar as theology studies the nature of the divine, it will earn the right to be taken seriously when it provides the slightest, smallest smidgen of a reason for believing in the existence of the divine. Meanwhile, we should devote as much time to studying serious theology as we devote to studying serious fairies and serious unicorns.

  Richard Dawkins

  Education, Business, Believe

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• Use the smallest word that does the job.

  E. B. White

  Jobs, Writing, Doe

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• The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Organization, Expression

  "Cartier-Bresson's classic is back - but his Decisive Moment has passed" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2014.

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• He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a moment, after which all was over. I shall never forget the comic look of despair he cast upon the other five over-occupied shells. I asked him how he felt. 'Profoundly grateful,' he said, 'as if I had swallowed a small baby.'

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Baby, Grateful, Grace

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• True spirituality is to be aware that if we are interdependent with everything and everyone else, even our smallest, least significant thought, word and action have real consequences throughout the universe.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Real, Action, Spirituality

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• The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Rain, Book, Reading

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• A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Funny, Morning, Cutting

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1871). “The Poetical Works of”

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• One cannot demand of a scholar that he show himself a scholar everywhere in society, but the whole tenor of his behavior must none the less betray the thinker, he must always be instructive, his way of judging a thing must even in the smallest matters be such that people can see what it will amount to when, quietly and self-collected, he puts this power to scholarly use.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Power, Self, People

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook J 85, 1799.

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• You need an infinite stretch of time ahead of you to start to think, infinite energy to make the smallest decision. The world is getting denser. The immense number of useless projects is bewildering. Too many things have to be put in to balance up an uncertain scale. You can't disappear anymore. You die in a state of total indecision.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Thinking, Numbers, Decision

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.110, Verso

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• We are told that the first part of the process is to select the very smallest seeds from the smallest plants, which is not at all unlikely, but I cannot speak to the fact from my own observation.

  Robert Fortune

  Firsts, Facts, Speak

  Robert Fortune (1847). “Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a Visit to the Tea, Silk, and Cotton Countries; with an Account of the Agriculture and Horticulture of the Chinese, New Plants, Etc”, p.85

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• I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.

  Atom Egoyan

  Thinking, Looks, Our Society

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• You can tell when you watch a movie, usually, what the actors' experience was on the movie, because even the smallest of roles were interesting.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Interesting, Watches, Roles

  "Q&A: Jesse Eisenberg's Best Role Yet". Interview with Calum Marsh, www.esquire.com. September 10, 2013.

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• When it seems that someone has shattered your dreams....pick up even the smallest of pieces and use them to build bigger and better dreams.

  Jeremy Irons

  Dream, Use, Pieces

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• The worlds smallest package is a person wrapped up in themselves.

  LeCrae

  World, Persons, Packages

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• To find reality you must be real in the smallest daily action; there can be no deceit in the search for truth.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Real, Deceit, Action

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• Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the tiniest generosity, can cause to be set in motion...Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Self, Ideas, Generosity

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• Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

  Pliny the Elder

  Found, Creatures, Entirety

  Pliny (the Elder.) (1997). “Natural History: Books 8-11”, Loeb Classical Library

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• The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.

  C. S. Lewis

  Victory, Goes On, May

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.171, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Any participation, even in the smallest public function, is useful.

  John Stuart Mill

  Government, Function, Participation

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Considerations on Representative Government”, p.94, John Stuart Mill

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• An age where you feel like you could love anyone, where you put everything on the line for the smallest of things. Eighteen. Adults say that it's an age where we laugh if a leaf tumbles by. But back then, we were more serious than any adult, more intense, and had our strength tested. 1997. That was how our eighteen was beginning.

  Ryu Si-won

  Drama, Laughing, Age

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• I believe above the storm, the smallest prayer will still be heard. I believe that someone in that great somewhere hears every word.

  LeAnn Rimes

  Inspirational, Prayer, Believe

  Song: I Believe, Album: You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs

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• I believe above the storm the smallest prayer will still be heard.

  Dolly Parton

  Religious, Prayer, Believe

  FaceBook post by Dolly Parton from Oct 10, 2016

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• To establish yourself as a leading man, you're shooting for the smallest point on the target, and you get a lot of judgment thrown at you. It takes a lot for them to get past everything and just watch your art and what you're doing.

  Josh Holloway

  Art, Past, Men

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• The smallest sprout shows there is really no death.

  Walt Whitman

  Leaves Of Grass, Shows, Sprouts

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.25, University of Iowa Press

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