Smallest Quotes - Page 25

• 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 air strikes are important [to fight ISIS], but we need to have an air force capable of it. And because of the budget cuts we are facing in this country, we are going to be left with the oldest and the smallest Air Force we have ever had. We have to reverse those cuts, in addition to the cuts to our Navy and in addition to the cuts to our Army, as well.

  Marco Rubio

  Country, Fighting, Cutting

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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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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• The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Love Is, Giving, Faults

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• What's great about it is that painting doesn't move. And so in the 21st century, when we're used to clicking and browsing and having constant choice, painting simply sits there silently and begs you to notice the smallest of detail.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Moving, Choices, Details

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• We have the smallest navy since 1916, we have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. We've got to work with the congress and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.

  Mike Pence

  Military, War, Numbers

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Abuse, Culture, Tiny

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• If you would like to write better than everybody else, you have to want to write better than everybody else. You must take an obsessive pride in the smallest details of your craft. And you must be willing to defend what you've written against the various middlemen - editors, agents and publishers - whose sights may be different from yours, whose standards not so high.

  William Zinsser

  Writing, Pride, Sight

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• I was always the smallest guy on the field.

  Brian Roberts

  Guy, Fields

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• Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Littles, Faults

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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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• There's not one way to direct a film, there are so many different ways to do it. Everything affects the way it turns out in the end. Even the smallest things. You don't want to really acknowledge that, because you want to believe that you are the only creative asset as a director. You want to believe you're the only one. But I really feel that everyone teams up and everybody really affects everything. Actually, it's the closest I will get to playing in a band.

  Lukas Moodysson

  Team, Believe, Creative

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In yielding we are like the water, by nature placid, conforming to the hollow of the smallest hand; in time, shaping even the mountains to its will. Thus we keep duty and honor. We cherish clan and civilization. We are Chinese.

  Bette Lord

  Hands, Civilization, Water

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• I have not the smallest doubt that, if we had a purely democratic government here, the effect would be the same. Either the poor would plunder the rich, and civilisation would perish; or order and property would be saved by a strong military government, and liberty would perish.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Strong, Military, Order

  "The Letters of Thomas Babington Macaulay" edited by Thomas Pinney, Vol. 6, p. 94, 1981.

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• If a marriage is going to work well, it must be on a solid footing, namely money, and of that commodity it is the girl with the smallest dowry who, to my knowledge, consumes the most, to infuriate her husband. All the same, it is only fair that the marriage should pay for past pleasures, since it will scarcely procure any in the future.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Marriage, Girl, Money

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• The kingdom of God is like a mustard seed, beginning as the smallest of seeds but growing until the birds of the air make their nests therein. There are old worlds and new ones. There are earthy worlds and cyber worlds. But one truth remains the same now and forever, that Jesus rules them all.

  R. C. Sproul, Jr.

  Jesus, Air, Bird

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• Petty vexations may at times be petty, but still they are vexations. The smallest and most inconsiderable annoyances are the most piercing. As small letters weary the eye most, so the smallest affairs disturb us most.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Eye, Piercings, Letters

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