Smallest Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

  Canning Fok

  Technology, Phones, Cameras

  "'3' the magic number for Hutch Telecom", cnn.com. August 23, 2002.

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• The power which a multiple millionaire, who may be my neighbor and perhaps my employer, has over me is very much less than that which the smallest "functionaire" possesses who wields the coercive power of the state, and on whose desecration it depends whether and how I am allowed to live or to work.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Liberty, May, Libertarian

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• It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and either laughed or shook their heads reproachfully. They do not believe that these impressions, these instant sensations, could contain even the smallest grain of sanity. If a tree is red or blue, or a face is blue or green, they are sure that is insanity.

  Edvard Munch

  Believe, Blue, Years

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• I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  People, Soul, Saved

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1898). “Lectures of Col. R.G. Ingersoll: Including His Letters on the Chinese God--Is Suicide a Sin?--The Right to One's Life--etc. Etc. Etc”

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• I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

  Jimmy Jewel

  Funny, Climbing, Long

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• I never had any problems with my height. I was always the smallest kid, at school and in my teams.

  Lionel Messi

  Team, School, Kids

  Source: www.worldsoccer.com

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• Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Perseverance, Motivation, Writing

  FAQs, www.jodipicoult.com. August 2016.

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• Even a small amount of perspective can change our lives. Because even the smallest amount of perspective can change how we are able to navigate hard times.

  Andy Andrews

  Hard Times, Perspective, Able

  "The Noticer Returns | An Interview With Andy Andrews". Interview with Matt Ham, mattham.com. October 3, 2013.

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• Pure love ... knows that only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest things out of great love - love, and always love.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Love, Christian, Please

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• I'd like to do something meaningful in the smallest ways, not just words or idiotic writing.

  Xavier Dolan

  Meaningful, Writing, Way

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• There is a pretty interesting document called 'action writing.' Which is not all about spontaneity and first thought, best thought,' but a certain kind of attention to the smallest increments of the phonemes of language, The kind of power of connection, what he is able to do with language.

  Anne Waldman

  Writing, Interesting, Connections

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• Athletics is a great sport with many different events and athletes come in all shapes and sizes. I'm one of the smallest athletes on the track. They call me the 'pocket rocket'.

  Jenny Meadows

  Sports, Athlete, Track

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• I'm not a political progressive, but I consider myself a progressive person. What makes me a progressive, in my opinion, is the fact that I try to improve myself and by large improve the world that I'm in - in the smallest way possible.

  Trevor Noah

  Political, Trying, World

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Just opening quietly for moments everyday can create a path by which life can reach us, the way rain carves a little stream in the earth by which the smallest flowers are watered.

  Mark Nepo

  Rain, Flower, Everyday

  Mark Nepo (2012). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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• [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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• As ten millions of circles can never make a square, so the united voice of myriads cannot lend the smallest foundation to falsehood.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Squares, Circles, Voice

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.397

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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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• 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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• Thyself and thy belongings
  Are not thine own so proper, as to waste
  Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.
  Heaven doth with us as we with torches do,
  Not light them for themselves; for if our virtues
  Did not go forth of us 't were all alike
  As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd
  But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends
  The smallest scruple of her excellence,
  But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
  Herself the glory of a creditor -
  Both thanks and use.

  William Shakespeare

  Light, Issues, Heaven

  William Shakespeare (1842). “The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: Merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night. As you like it. Measure for measure”, p.383

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• I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment it shall be behind me.

  Max Reger

  Writing, House, Sitting

  Quoted in Nicholas Slonimsky, Lexicon of Musical Invective: Critical Assaults on Composers Since Beethoven's Time (1953). Cassell's Humorous Quotations suggests that an earlier version of this jab appeared in a letter by the Fourth Earl of Sandwich in 1785, but no such anecdote is found in the book said to be the source.

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• The smallest gestures you do can sometimes carry the most weight.

  Joe Vitale

  Inspirational, Weight, Gestures

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• The smallest sin is an act of Cosmic Treason against a Holy God.

  Jonathan Edwards

  God, Sin, Holy

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