Smallest Quotes - Page 19

• Practice by drawing things large, as if equal in representation and reality. In small drawings every large weakness is easily hidden; in the large, the smallest weakness is easily seen.

  Leon Battista Alberti

  Reality, Practice, Drawing

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• The smallest modification of tonality affects structure. Some things have to be rather large, but elegance is the presentation of things in their minimum dimensions.

  Frederick Sommer

  Dimensions, Elegance, Structure

  Frederick Sommer (1984). “Sommer: Words”

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• At seventy-three I learned a little about the real structure of animals, plants, birds, fishes and insects. Consequently when I am eighty I'll have made more progress. At ninety I'll have penetrated the mystery of things. At a hundred I shall have reached something marvellous, but when I am a hundred and ten everything I do, the smallest dot, will be alive.

  Hokusai

  Real, Animal, Bird

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• Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden.... Creating any garden, big or small, is, in the end, all about joy.

  Julie Moir Messervy

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Cheer

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• A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, May, Politics

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• The Life we have is very great.
  The Life that we shall see
  Surpasses it, we know, because
  It is Infinity,
  But when all Space has been beheld
  And all Dominion shown
  The smallest Human Heart's extent
  Reduces it to none.

  Emily Dickinson

  Life, Heart, Space

  Emily Dickinson, Cristanne Miller (2016). “Emily Dickinson’s Poems: As She Preserved Them”, p.707, Harvard University Press

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• No Zionist can forgo the smallest portion of the Land Of Israel. [A] Jewishstate in part [of Palestine] is not an end, but a beginning ..... Our possessionis important not only for itself ... through this we increase our power,and every increase in power facilitates getting hold of the country in itsentirety. Establishing a [small] state .... will serve as a very potent lever inour historical effort to redeem the whole country.

  David

  Country, Israel, Land

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• I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Writing, College, Virginia

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• The magic behind every outstanding performance is always found in the smallest of details.

  Gary Ryan

  Magic, Details, Outstanding Performance

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• We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Everyday, Want, Matter

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2010). “The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs”, p.240, Vintage

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• Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger in order to live a moment longer. And the desire to live is most developed in man.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Love Life, Men, Order

  Hazrat Inayat Khan (1960). “The Sufi Message of Hazrat Inayat Khan: The Unity of Religious Ideals”, p.28, Library of Alexandria

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• Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will observe it; nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Plato, Events, Looks

  Marcus Aurelius (2016). “Meditations”, p.66, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• I am not surprised that men who put their trust in an atom should fail in their slightest attempts to plumb truth, that with such limited vision they cannot see beyond the sky and the stars to God Himself; that since they cannot discern the superiority of what is spiritual or the dignity of man's soul, they are even more unaware how hard it is to satisfy, how the whole earth is unworthy of it, how urgently it needs a supremely perfect being, who is God, and how indispensable to it is a religion which will lead it towards God and provide a sure pledge of Him.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Stars, Men, Effort

  "Of Freethinkers". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• I am convinced with Plato , with St. Paul, with St. Augustine, with Calvin , and with Leibnitz, that this universe, and every smallest portion of it, exactly fulfils the purpose for which Almighty God designed it.

  James Anthony Froude

  Plato, Purpose, Augustine

  James Anthony Froude (1849). “The Nemesis of Faith”, p.8

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• If kings would only determine not to extend their dominions until they had filled them with happiness, they would find the smallest territories too large, but the longest life too short for the full accomplishment of so grand and so noble an ambition.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Happiness, Kings, Ambition

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.111

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• I was the world's smallest man, covered in freckles with a squeaky, scratchy voice. And I still am, but I've learned to love myself.

  Charlie Day

  Men, Voice, World

  Source: collider.com

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• The wonder is that the characteristic efficacy to touch and inspire deep creative centers dwells in the smallest nursery fairy tale-as the flavor of the ocean is contained in a droplet or the whole mystery of life within the egg of a flea. For the symbols of mythology are not manufactured; they cannot be ordered, invented, or permanently suppressed. They are spontaneous productions of the psyche, and each bears within it, undamaged, the germ power of its source.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ocean, Eggs, Creative

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.1, New World Library

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• There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets.

  Charles Dickens

  Humorous, Eye, Men

  Charles Dickens (1839). “The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby”, p.297

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• When someone is made the head of an office in the Ogilvy & Mather chain, I send him a Matrioshka doll from Gorky. If he has the curiosity to open it, and keep opening it until he comes to the inside of the smallest doll, he finds this message: If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

  David Ogilvy

  Office, People, Curiosity

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• Each minute bursts in the burning room,The great globe reels in the solar fire,Spinning the trivial and unique away.(How all things flash! How all things flare!)What am I now that I was then?May memory restore again and againThe smallest color of the smallest day:Time is the school in which we learn,Time is the fire in which we burn.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Memories, School, Unique

  "For Rhoda" l. 40 (1938)

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• Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Children, Philosophy, Naked

  "On Literature, Revolution, Entropy and Other Matters" by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Mirra Ginsburg, in "A Soviet Heretic : Essays" by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1970), 1923.

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• There is one thing that makes life mighty in its veriest trifles, worthy in its smallest deeds, that delivers it from monotony, that delivers it from insignificance. All will be great, nothing will be overpowering, when, living in communion with Jesus Christ, we say as He says, "My meat is to do the will of Him that sent me.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Jesus, Meat, Deeds

  Alexander Maclaren (1873). “Sermons Preached in Manchester: third series”, p.282

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• Jesus is the best clue we have as to what God is like and He is consistently gracious and merciful, especially to those who are failures. He is harsh to uptight, judgmental people, but merciful and gracious to the failures. He seems to draw out the smallest kernel of faith in each person that He's with. So, I presume that that's the way God is going to judge humanity.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, People, Judging

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• There is an undeniable exhilaration in moment of even the smallest discovery

  Graham Moore

  Discovery, Exhilaration, Moments

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• Love is the smallest part of gallantry.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love Is, Gallantry

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