Smallest Quotes - Page 27

• As the sun shines both on the cedar and the smallest flower, so the Divine sun illumines each soul.

  Therese of Lisieux

  Flower, Shining, Catholic

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• Only the family, society's smallest unit, can change and yet maintain enough continuity to rear children who will not be 'strangers in a strange land,' who will be rooted firmly enough to grow and adapt.

  Salvador Minuchin

  Children, Land, Strange

  Salvador MINUCHIN (2009). “Families and Family Therapy”, p.47, Harvard University Press

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• With the right attitude, human beings can move mountains. With the wrong attitude, they can be crushed by the smallest grain of sand.

  Jim Rohn

  Attitude, Moving, Mountain

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• Think about how rare it is for anyone to encounter a teacher who can open you up to the notion that there is an infinite amount of meaning and possibility and inspiration in the smallest thing before you.

  Greil Marcus

  Teacher, Inspiration, Thinking

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• What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows--it must grow smaller or larger, better or worse--it cannot stand still. In other words, we change--and must change, constantly, and keep on changing as long as we live. What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he's stuck in a rut.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Years, Law

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• We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itself; but we have not observed that this equally holds of the totality of things, which is made up of parts within parts from the greatest down to the smallest.

  Herbert Spencer

  Evolution, Made, Evolve

  Herbert Spencer (1864). “First Principles”, p.559

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• If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.

  Ramakrishna

  Men, White, Ugly

  "Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna", p. 299, 1960.

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• Röntgen has familiarized us with an order of vibrations of extreme minuteness compared with the smallest waves with which we have hitherto been acquainted, and of dimensions comparable with the distances between the centers of the atoms of which the material universe is built up; and there is no reason to suppose that we have here reached the limit of frequency.

  Wilhelm Rontgen

  Distance, Order, Atoms

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• God grant that as our horizon of duty is widened, our minds may widen with it; that as our burden is increased, our shoulders may be strengthened to bear it. God grant to us that spirit of wisdom and understanding, uprightness, and godly fear, without which, even in greatest things there is nothing; with which, even in the smallest things there is every thing.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Godly, Understanding, Mind

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Emma Elizabeth Brown (1879). “Thoughts that breathe”

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• Divinity reveals herself in all things. Everything has Divinity latent within itself. For she enfolds and imparts herself even unto the smallest beings, and from the smallest beings, according to their capacity. Without her presence nothing would have being, because she is the essence of the existence of the first unto the last being.

  Giordano Bruno

  Essence, Divinity, Lasts

  "The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast". Book by Giordano Bruno, 1584.

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• For most countries, serving the UN's objectives has never seemed worth even the smallest of risks. Member nations do not want a large, reputable, strong and independent United Nations, no matter their hypocritical pronouncements otherwise. What they want is a weak, beholden, indebted scapegoat of an organization, which they can blame for their failures or steal victories from.

  Roméo Dallaire

  Country, Strong, Independent

  "Shake Hands with the Devil". Book by Roméo Dallaire, 2003.

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• Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.

  Phillips Brooks

  Comfort, Trouble, Infinite

  Phillips Brooks “The Joy of Preaching”, Kregel Publications

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• I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him.

  George Washington

  Men, Say Anything, Scruples

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.89, Rowman & Littlefield

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• [To the critic who wrote a negative review:] I am sitting in the smallest room of the house. Your review is before me. Soon it will be behind me.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  House, Negative, Sitting

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• Our infinite obligations to God do not fill our hearts half as much as a petty uneasiness of our own; nor His infinite perfections as much as our smallest wants.

  Hannah More

  Heart, Perfection, Selfishness

  Hannah More (1840). “Miscellaneous Works: Tragedies. Miscellaneous poems. Hymns and ballads. Sacred Dramas. Coelebs. Practical piety. Moriana”, p.719

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• the smallest part is worthy of the whole.

  Elsie de Wolfe

  Worthy, Whole

  Elsie De Wolfe (1975). “The house in good taste”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Virtue is the health of the soul. It gives a flavor to the smallest leaves of life.

  Joseph Joubert

  Giving, Soul, Flavor

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• What is the elevation of the soul? A prompt, delicate, certain feeling for all that is beautiful, all that is grand; a quick resolution to do the greatest good by the smallest means; a great benevolence joined to a great strength and great humility.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Beautiful, Mean, Humility

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• In a vain man, the smallest spark may kindle into the greatest flame, because the materials are always prepared for it.

  David Hume

  Men, Vanity, Flames

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• Between threading a needle and raving insanity is the smallest eye in creation.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Eye, Insanity, Creation

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• The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.

  Francis Atterbury

  Charity, Acts Of Charity

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• Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.

  Alice Sebold

  Pain, Stories, Bones

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.129, Pan Macmillan

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• Heart surgeons do not have the world's smallest egos: when you ask them to name the world's three leading practitioners, they never can remember the names of the other two.

  Sara Paretsky

  Heart, Two, Doctors

  Sara Paretsky (2009). “Windy City Blues”, p.86, Dell

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• Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.

  John Ruskin

  Evil, Ornaments, Railroads

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• Faith is not simply a private matter, or something we practice once a week at church. Rather, it should have a contagious effect on the broader world. Jesus used these images to illustrate His kingdom.: a sprinkle of yeast causing the whole loaf to rise, a pinch of salt preserving a slab of meat, the smallest seed in the garden growing into a great tree in which birds of the air come to nest.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Garden, Air

  FaceBook post by Philip Yancey from Jun 23, 2016

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