Tiny Quotes - Page 23

• There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.

  Oscar Wilde

  Summer, Stars, Butterfly

  Oscar Wilde (2014). “Poems”, p.30, Simon and Schuster

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• My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.

  Jean Cocteau

  Color, Use, Littles

  Jean Cocteau, Pierre Chanel (1988). “Past tense: diaries”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.

  Carl Sagan

  Sky, Rejection, Immensity

  Carl Sagan (1994). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, Random House Incorporated

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• Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Running, Art, Real

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• But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Christian, Believe, Symphony

  Evelyn Underhill, Christopher L. Webber (2006). “Advent with Evelyn Underhill”, p.17, Church Publishing, Inc.

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• The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.

  Northrop Frye

  Travel, Past, Europe

  Northrop Frye (2013). “The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society”, p.282, Routledge

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• This is the constitutional limitation of man's knowledge and interests, the fact that he cannot know more than a tiny part of the whole of society and that therefore all that can enter into his motives are the immediate effects which his actions will have in the sphere he knows.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Facts, Spheres

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• Our planet consists largely of lumps of fall-out from a star-sized hydrogen bomb. Within our bodies, no less than three million atoms rendered unstable in that event still erupt every minute, releasing a tiny fraction of the energy stored from that fierce fire of long ago.

  James Lovelock

  Stars, Fall, Long Ago

  "Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth". Book by James Lovelock, 1979.

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• We are all of us walking communities of bacteria.
  The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape
  made of tiny living beings.

  Lynn Margulis

  Community, World, Landscape

  Lynn Margulis, Dorion Sagan (1986). “Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Evolution from Our Microbial Ancestors”, p.191, Univ of California Press

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• We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.

  Rachel Carson

  Motivational, Thinking, Mature

  Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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• The entire world we apprehend through our senses is no more than a tiny fragment in the vastness of Nature.

  Max Planck

  Nature, Science, World

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin - a little fellow trying to do the best he could.

  Walt Disney

  Cute, Children, Animal

  "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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• If a tiny spark of God's love already burns within you, do not expose it to the wind, for it may get blown out.... Stay quiet with God. Do not spend your time in useless chatter.... Do not give yourself to others so completely that you have nothing left for yourself.

  Carlo Borromeo

  Faith, Inspiration, Wind

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• Pain is such an uncomfortable feeling that even a tiny amount of it is enough to ruin every enjoyment.

  Will Rogers

  Pain, Uncomfortable Feeling, Feelings

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• Who would attempt to fly with the tiny wings of a sparrow when the mighty power of an eagle has been given him

  Kenneth Wapnick

  Dream, Eagles, Wings

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• Fill your life with tiny and large adventurous moments.

  Sark

  Moments, Adventurous

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• A tiny fly can choke a big man.

  Solomon Ibn Gabirol

  Men, Choke, Bigs

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• Everything is being compressed into tiny tablets. You take a little pill of news every day-23 minutes-and that's supposed to be enough.

  Walter Cronkite

  Media, Pills, News

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• By Chivalries as tiny, A Blossom, or a Book, The seeds of smiles are planted- Which Blossom in the dark.

  Emily Dickinson

  Kindness, Book, Dark

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.309, Delphi Classics

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• Here is a philosophy of boldness to take advantage of every tiny opening toward victory.

  Arnold Palmer

  Philosophy, Victory, Advantage

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• I've been told that certain species of fish will grow according to the size of their environment. Put them in a tiny aquarium, and they remain small even at adulthood. Release them into a huge natural body of water, and they grow into their intended size. People are similar. If they live in a harsh and limiting environment, they stay small. But put them someplace that encourages growth, and they will expand to reach their potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Motivational, Aquariums, People

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• When I got a tiny bit of success, I was petrified that I was going to lose it. I still feel it.

  Ben Schwartz

  Feels, Stills, Loses

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I love radical theorists. But at the same time, I don't agree with them a lot, but I love their theories. I love how they intellectualize rage, and this inner battle that such a tiny percent of people really care about. I find that the most interesting.

  John Waters

  People, Interesting, Battle

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm a collector - I collect everything. I can't throw things away. For some reason I think I'm going to need tiny wooden teddy bears with their arms hacked off.

  Anjelica Huston

  Thinking, Bears, Needs

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet.

  Nancy White

  Blow, Way, Planets

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