Smallest Quotes - Page 24

• He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Reality, Fragility, Facts

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• Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Basketball, Teacher

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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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• Take the example of my daughter. A lot of people were speaking out about education when the Taliban were bombing schools in Swat Valley, but Malala's voice was like a crescendo. It spread all around the world. She was the smallest but her voice was the biggest, because she was speaking for herself.

  Ziauddin Yousafzai

  Mother, Daughter, School

  "Ziauddin Yousafzai: learn from Malala, use your own voice to demand rights" by Anna Leach, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2014.

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• The probability for the chance of formation of the smallest, simplest form of living organism known is 1 to 10340,000,000.... The size of this figure is truly staggering, since there are only supposed to be approximately 10 electrons in the whole universe!

  Harold Morowitz

  Size, Chance, Evolution

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• Man is the weak being who, in spite of all his self-importance and pride of wealth and capital, is vanquished by the smallest microbe.

  Muhammad Atta-ullah Faizani

  Pride, Men, Self

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• One must state it plainly. Religion comes from the period of human pre-history where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea what was going on.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Ideas, Infancy Is, Matter

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.49, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Happiness, Annoyance

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• The government is huge, stupid, greedy and makes nosy, officious and dangerous intrusions into the smallest corners of life - this much we can stand. But the real problem is that government is boring. We could cure or mitigate the other ills Washington visits on us if we could only bring ourselves to pay attention to Washington itself. But we cannot.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Real, Stupid, Government

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.4, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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• The mob is easily led and may be moved by the smallest force, so that its agitations have a wonderful resemblance to those of the sea.

  Polybius

  Sea, Agitation, May

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• Ability is not something to be saved, like money, in the hope that you can draw interest on it. The interest comes from the spending. Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy. It is tragic to realize that the majority of human beings, even the so-called educated, call upon only the smallest fraction of their potential capacity. They leave many talents dormant. They fail to develop their mental qualities. They are almost unaware of the degree of energy upon which they might call to build a full and rewarding life.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Quality, Might, Energy

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• The totalitarians in the world are very, very small. Only the smallest part of humanity wishes and acts upon the destruction of others. The pluralists are far larger. Those of us who believe in a world where we live together - we're far larger. The problem is we haven't made our case compelling across the world yet.

  Eboo Patel

  Believe, Humanity, Wish

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Ocean, Men, Sea

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.255

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• Now the smallest Particles of Matter may cohere by the strongest Attractions, and compose bigger Particles of weaker Virture.... There are therefore Agents in Nature able to make the Particles of Bodies stick together by very strong Attraction. And it is the Business of experimental Philosophy to find them out.

  Isaac Newton

  Strong, Philosophy, Together

  Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.172, Courier Corporation

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• In photography, the smallest thing can become a big subject, an insignificant human detail can become a leitmotiv. We see and we make seen as a witness to the world around us; the event, in its natural activity, generates an organic rhythm of forms.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Events, Details

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• The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Goal, Highest

  Rudolf Steiner, Johanna Collis (2000). “Rosicrucian Wisdom: An Introduction ; Fourteen Lectures Given in Munich Between 22 May and 6 June 1907”, p.11, Rudolf Steiner Press

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• No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Inspirational, Dream, Firsts

  Laura Ingalls Wilder (1995). “Words from a Fearless Heart: A Collection of Wit, Wisdom, and Whimsy”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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