Smallest Quotes - Page 28

• I plunged into the job of creating something from nothing.... Though I hadn't a penny left, I considered cash money as the smallest part of my resources. I had faith in a living God, faith in myself, and a desire to serve.

  Mary McLeod Bethune

  Life, Faith, Jobs

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• Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.

  Ray Bradbury

  Summer, Children, Glasses

  Ray Bradbury (2012). “Dandelion Wine”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• Even the smallest of creatures carries the sun in its eyes.

  Antonio Porchia

  Eye, Sun, Creatures

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• Even chance meetings are the result of karma… Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there’s no such thing as coincidence.

  Haruki Murakami

  Karma, Things In Life, Events

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.33, Random House

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• Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Children, Coffee, Weather

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• The whole of the world could be deduced from the smallest grain of sand, if one studied it closely enough.

  Christopher Paolini

  World, Sand, Enough

  Christopher Paolini (2012). “Inheritance Deluxe Edition (The Inheritance Cycle, Book 4)”, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I imagine you come across a number of people who are disconcerted by the difference between what you do feel and what they fancy you ought to feel. It is fatal to pay the smallest attention to them.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Differences, Numbers, People

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• A great deal of the joy of life consists in doing perfectly, or at least to the best of one's ability, everything which one attempts to do. There is a sense of satisfaction, a pride in surveying such a work, a work which is rounded, full, exact, complete in all its parts-which the superficial man, who leaves his work in a slovenly, slipshod, half-finished condition can never know. It is this conscientious completeness which turns work into art. The smallest thing, well done, becomes artistic.

  William Matthews

  Art, Pride, Men

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• I have often, as an exercise and as a sustenance, painted before an object down to the smallest accidents of its visual appearance; but the day left me sad and with an unsatiated thirst. The next day I let the other source run, that of imagination, through the recollection of the forms and I was then reassured and appeased.

  Odilon Redon

  Running, Exercise, Next Day

  Roseline Bacou, Odilon Redon (1987). “Odilon Redon: pastels”, George Braziller

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