Smallest Quotes - Page 23

• What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.

  Roger Angell

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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• Even the smallest daily chore can be humanized with the harmony of culture.

  Alvar Aalto

  Culture, Harmony, Chores

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• The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.

  Marion Woodman

  Love, Sunset, Autumn

  Marion Woodman (1985). “The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation”

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• The Poet in his ArtMust intimate the whole, and say the smallest part.

  William Wetmore Story

  Poet, Intimate, Whole

  William Wetmore Story (1863). “Poems ...”, p.233

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• One woman approached me as she walked past and, pointing to her four children who were manfully helping the smallest ones over the rough ground, whispered: 'How can you bring yourself to kill such beautiful, darling children? Have you no heart at all?' One old man, as he passed me, hissed: 'Germany will pay a heavy penance for this mass murder of the Jews.' His eyes glowed with hatred as he said this. Nevertheless he walked calmly into the gas-chamber.

  Rudolf Hoss

  Beautiful, Children, Heart

  "Commandant of Auschwitz: The Autobiography of Rudolf Hoess". Book by Rudolf Höss, p. 150, 2000.

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• The World's Smallest Political Quiz is responsible for many Americans' first contact with libertarian ideas. While traveling around the country, I have often heard people say, 'I never knew I was a libertarian until I took the Quiz!'

  Ron Paul

  Country, Ideas, People

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• Not to write, for many of us, is to die. We must take ares each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fight we must, if only a gentle bout. The smallest effort to win means, at the end of each day, a sort of victory.

  Ray Bradbury

  Writing, Mean, Fighting

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• A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide into the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the dazed and rumbling past. It makes reality come true.

  Don DeLillo

  Photography, Past, Technology

  Don DeLillo (1998). “Underworld: A Novel”, Scribner

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• I could only speak in the smallest, most intimate circles about the real reasons which made me undertake the changeover of the plants for certain lines of production for I had to expect that many people would not understand me.

  Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach

  Real, Circles, People

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• Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to monkeys to lemurs] - leading us insensibly from the crown and summit of the animal creation down to creatures, from which there is but a step, as it seems, to the lowest, smallest, and least intelligent of the placental Mammalia. It is as if nature herself had forseen the arrogance of man, and with Roman severity had provided that his intellect, by its very triumphs, should call into prominence the slaves, admonishing the conqueror that he is but dust.

  Thomas Huxley

  Intelligent, Men, Animal

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• It's an appreciation for life generally, every bit of life, the smallest creature that lives in the intestines of termites that make termite life possible - to the leaves that turn out oxygen and grab carbon dioxide and with water make simple sugars that feed much of the world. I mean, these are everyday miracles.

  Sylvia Earle

  Appreciation, Mean, Simple

  "Big Thinkers on Evolution". "NOVA" Interview, www.pbs.org. October 6, 2009.

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• [T]he democratic principle of "one man, one vote," viewed against a background of voting masses numbering several millions, only serves to demonstrate the pitiful helplessness of the inarticulate individual, who functions at the polls as the smallest indivisible arithmetical (and not always algebraic) unit. He acts in total anonymity, secrecy and legal irresponsibility.

  Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

  Men, Voting, Principles

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• A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Men, Noble, Spirit

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• You must walk sometimes perfectly free, not prying or inquisitive, not bent on seeing things. Throw away a whole day for a single expansion, a single inspiration of air. You must walk so gently as to hear the finest sounds, the faculties being in repose. Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiration, Eye, Air

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• As God is propitiated by the blood of a hundred bulls, so also is he by the smallest offering of incense.
  [Lat., Sed tamen ut fuso taurorum sanguine centum,
  Sic capitur minimo thuris honore deux.]

  Ovid

  God, Offering, Blood

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• A true delineation of the smallest man is capable of interesting the greatest man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Interesting, Greatest Man

  Thomas Carlyle (1851). “Works”, p.6

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• Every single cell in the human body replaces itself over a period of seven years. That means there's not even the smallest part of you now that was part of you seven years ago.

  Steven Hall

  Inspirational, Spring, Mean

  Steven Hall (2005). “The Raw Shark Texts”, p.25, Canongate Books

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• A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.

  J. B. Bury

  History, Facts, Ends

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• The first, indeed the only, requirement of a diet is that it should lose you weight without reducing your alcoholic intake by the smallest degree.

  Kingsley Amis

  Degrees, Weight, Requirements

  Kingsley Amis (2010). “Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis”, p.90, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Ants, Clams, Form

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• Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity

  Gorgias

  Pain, Powerful, Joy

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• You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.

  Jack Gantos

  Hands, Faces, Problem

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• All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.

  Alberto Giacometti

  Fashion, Art, Past

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• I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin.

  George Eliot

  Taken, Sight, Doors

  George Eliot (2015). “Middlemarch: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.136, Penguin

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• Kindness is the music of Good Will to men, and on this harp the smallest fingers may play heaven's sweetest tunes on earth.

  Elihu Burritt

  Kindness, Men, Play

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