Smallest Quotes - Page 4

• Nothing is more consonant with Nature than that she puts into operation in the smallest detail that which she intends as a whole.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Nature, Science, Details

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• ...it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.

  Steve Martin

  Hurt, Heart, Events

  Steve Martin (2001). “Shopgirl”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• I daresay Freddy might not be a great hand at slaying dragons- but one has not the smallest need of a man who can kill dragons!

  Georgette Heyer

  Men, Dragons, Hands

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• Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Pride, Men, Personality

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• The smallest things become great when God requires them of us; they are small only in themselves; they are always great when they are done for God.

  Francois Fenelon

  Humility, Done

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• If I can send the flower of the German nation into the hell of war without the smallest pity for the shedding of precious German blood, then surely I have the right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin.

  Adolf Hitler

  Death, Crazy, War

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• Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these little creatures were above a thousand times smaller than the smallest ones I have ever yet seen, upon the rind of cheese, in wheaten flour, mould, and the like.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Wise, Science, Water

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• He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.

  Anna Katharine Green

  Sympathy, Condolences, Feet

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• On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at a variable rate according to the nature, condition, or situation of the objects involved, but are nevertheless accomplished within a certain period of time. Time is insignificant and never a difficulty for Nature. It is always at her disposal and represents an unlimited power with which she accomplishes her greatest and smallest tasks.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Change, Nature, Science

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• Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.

  Dean Koontz

  Anxiety, Ears, Circus

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Seize the Night”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?

  Warren Hutcherson

  Funny, School, Humor

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• You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.

  Charles Kingsley

  Nature, Children, Ocean

  Charles Kingsley (1864). “The Water-babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-baby”, p.66

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• Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Kindness, Patriotic

  "Obama Weekly Address: President Calls On Americans To Rekindle 9/11 Unity". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2011.

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• I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical objects in the ordinary sense; they are forms, ideas which can be expressed unambiguously only in mathematical language.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Plato, Thinking, Ideas

  Werner Heisenberg (1970). “Natural law and the structure of matter”

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• Whatever exists, he said. Whatever in creation exists without my knowledge exists without my consent. He looked about at the dark forest in which they were bivouacked. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing. Only nature can enslave man and only when the existence of each last entity is routed out and made to stand naked before him will he be properly suzerain of the earth.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Dark, Men, Rocks

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.209, Pan Macmillan

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• There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

  John Green

  Knowing, Alaska, Done

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.169, Penguin

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• It consists in a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitude of God's gifts, taken one by one. It fills us with a consciousness that God loves and cares for us, even to the least event and smallest need of life; and that we actually have received, and do now possess as our own, gifts which come direct from God. It is a blessed thought, that from our childhood God has been laying His fatherly hands upon us, and always in benediction; that even the strokes of his hands are blessings, and among the chiefest we have ever received.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Blessed

  "Sermons".

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• God is love. I don't say the heart doesn't feel a taste of it, but what a taste. The smallest glass of love mixed with a pint pot of ditch-water. We wouldn't recognize that love. It might even look like hate. It would be enough to scare us - God's love.

  Graham Greene

  Running, Hate, Heart

  "The Collected Edition: The power and the glory".

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• Loud is the summer's busy song
  The smallest breeze can find a tongue,
  While insects of each tiny size
  Grow teasing with their melodies,
  Till noon burns with its blistering breath
  Around, and day lies still as death.

  John Clare

  Summer, Song, Lying

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• One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

  Og Mandino

  Success, Achievement, Joy

  Og Mandino (2011). “The Greatest Salesman in the World, Part II: The End of the Story”, p.125, Bantam

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• Advice, the smallest current coin.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Advice, Coins, Currents

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 14

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• No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or otherwise, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or his property as to enable the Inland Revenue to put the largest shovel into his stores.

  James Avon Clyde, Lord Clyde

  Country, Men, Moral

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• [In plotting earthquake measurements] the range between the largest and smallest magnitudes seemed unmanageably large. Dr. Beno Gutenberg then made the natural suggestion to plot the amplitudes logarithmically.

  Charles Francis Richter

  Nature, Science, Earthquakes

  " Earthquake Information Bulletin, Volumes 12-13" (p. 6), 1980.

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• For this, to be sure, from the child's primer down to the last newspaper, every theater and every movie house, every advertising pillar and every billboard, must be pressed into the service of this one great mission, until the timorous prayer of our present parlor patriots: 'Lord, make us free!' is transformed in the brain of the smallest boy into the burning plea: 'Almighty God, bless our arms when the time comes; be just as thou hast always been; judge now whether we be deserving of freedom; Lord, bless our battle!"

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Prayer, Children

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I am not capable of doing big things, but I want to do everything, even the smallest things, for the greater glory of God.

  Dominic Savio

  God, Religious, Christian Inspirational

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