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I like to buy clothes that are two sizes too small and then take them in a little. — Dolly Parton

When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure. — John D. Barrow

You learn to always sell stocks quickly when you have a small loss rather than waiting and hoping they'll come back. — Anonymous

Our minds are small, but our hearts are big. — Cheryl Strayed

You must always think big while you start small. — John Patrick Hickey

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really. — Stanley Tucci

People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm. — John Lasseter

Nature has circumscribed the field of life within small dimensions, but has left the field of glory unmeasured. — Marcus Tullius Cicero

Our hands will never be too small for helping those who are in need as long we have the heart to care. — Kcat Yarza

Alice had to be small to enter Wonderland. — David Brooks

Mhisery took a deep breath, gave a small smirk along with a wink and said, "What are you waiting for? The South to rise again, fuck me! — Shyloh Morgan

A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Nations have the wrong granularity. They're too small to be global and too big to be local, and all they can think about is competing. — Nicholas Negroponte

The secret has been killing me. Taking small chunks out of who I am until I wasn't me anymore. — Marata Eros

I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing. — Alice Munro

The very "least" among us has the enormous power to effect change through small acts of determination and will. — Bryant McGill

Yes, God knew the number of a man's days. But sometimes that number was small because the enemy had cut it short. — Karen Kingsbury

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart. — Henry Clay

The rotation of the polarization plane is extraordinarily small in all gases, thus also in sodium vapour. — Pieter Zeeman

Oh, to be half as wonderful as my children thought I was when he was small, and only half as stupid as my teenager now thinks I am. — Rebecca Richards

From one small lie her dream had transformed into a hideous nightmare — Emma Calin

It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too. — Rachel Maddow

Our nest eggs, no matter how small, are safe. — Nick Clooney

Fine. If I can't have you, then you do the taking. Have all of me, part of me, a small piece, whatever you want. Just please, have something. — J.R. Ward

Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise. — Thomas Carlyle

One's course in life often pivots on small incidents. — Sidney Huntington

One small ball in the air. I wouldn't believe that at this moment you have to fear the intelligence aspects of this. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I love those tiny little onions in the spring that are so small they're almost like a little chive. — Alice Waters

Human beings who leave behind them no great achievements, but only a series of small kindnesses, have not had wasted lives — Charlotte Gray

Don't ever forget where you came from--especially if you don't even know where you are going. — Sara Marie Hogg

Better to be the hireling of a stranger, and serve a man of mean estate whose living is but small, than be the ruler over all these dead and gone. — Homer

Never keep long and be waiting. Waiters and quitters have just a slight difference but a common end. — Israelmore Ayivor

No matter what's happening, choose to be happy. Don't focus on what's wrong. Find something positive in your life. Thank God for the small things. — Joel Osteen

Nurturing is not complex. It's simply being tuned in to the thing or person before you and offering small gestures toward what it needs at that time. — Mary Anne Radmacher

I got intrigued by working in small theatres. — Ian McKellen

You cannot help the small men, by tearing down the big men. — William J.H. Boetcker

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses. — Russell Baker

Big challenges are an accumulation of small challenges. — Anne Wojcicki

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents. — Charles Spurgeon

She would always be short, but she wasn't helpless and she wasn't small. Not anymore. — Anne Bishop

He took the mess that was Macbeth and fixed it, and I wonder if he might, in some small way, be able to do the same for me. — Sarah Dessen

It was small consolation, but it would have to do. I squeezed his hand once more, in lieu of things unsaid. Come on. — Jacqueline Carey

Big government makes small citizens. — Mark Steyn

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet. — Confucius

Some people like being a big fish in a small pond, others a ferocious shark in the ocean, I rather be the ocean. In the end, fish die. — Behdad Sami

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency. — Robert A. Heinlein

Small jerks began to appear in my legs, my walk became unsteady precisely because I wanted it to be smooth. — Knut Hamsun

Once, he was chosen to play Ram in a small Ramleela company, but his parents were against it. — Raj Kapoor

Unfortunately, the highly curious student is a small percentage of the kids. — Bill Gates

The small words hurt the most. — Kris Harte

If a man would make his world large, he must be always making himself small. — G.K. Chesterton

Small things can start us off in new ways of thinking, and I was started off by the postage stamps of our area. — V.S. Naipaul

I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out. — Matt Mullenweg

Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain. — Haruki Murakami

For ocean, whale is a small fish; for wise man, small fish is an ocean! Sun, hides in the candle! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There's no black and no white, just shades of grey ... But the small betrayals lead to bigger ones, morality is eroded. — Kate Mosse

Great knowledge is universal. Small knowledge is limited. Great words are inspiring; small words are chatter. — Zhuangzi

We lie to ourselves about the smallest details, and we lie to ourselves about our largest life choices. — Cortney S. Warren

Ever wonder what crime you committed that you are confined to a small enclosure above your sinuses, under permanent skull arrest? — Robert Breault

Men lived like fishes; the great ones devoured the small. — Algernon Sidney

Hawaii is a small, close community. — Jake Shimabukuro

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. — Bertrand Russell

They'd reached St Thomas's and climbed the half-dozen wooden steps to the small veranda. Gamache — Louise Penny

I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut. — Tom Perrotta

My English is closer to the literary English, and I'm not very familiar with jokes in English or with, you know, with small talk in English. — J.M.G. Le Clezio

Always have some project under way...an ongoing project that goes from day to day and thus makes each day a small unit of time. — Lillian Troll

Our relationships with people are formed by small moments - and relationships are crucial in business. — Tom Rath

I'm happy to scrap with you, Macey darling, but we might do a little too much damage in this small space. — Colleen Gleason

Small successes are still successes; great failures are still failures. — Mason Cooley

To help people believe they can achieve victory, put them in a position to experience small successes. — John C. Maxwell

I do not want to be like a small animal bitten by a snake, going stiff with that poison. I want to bite back. — Yvette Christianse

There's small choice in rotten apples. — William Shakespeare

Balastair says with a small smile. I've missed you. — Chuck Wendig

I only used a cell phone for the first time after I was released. I had difficulty coping with it because it seemed so small and insubstantial. — Aung San Suu Kyi

The way I figure it, life's the sum total of all our small mistakes, little tragedies, bad choices. — Lauren Oliver

I don't want to produce anymore small or independent movies because it's just too hard these days. — John Cusack

A lot of my fears and anxieties are the fears and anxieties of a six-year-old boy. When I finally confront them, they're really small. — Bill Burr

Woke me up," she whispers. "I'm sure it did." I'm fascinated. "What were you dreaming about?" "You," she says in a small voice. — E.L. James

Only small minds want always to be right. — Louis XIV

Sometimes it's more noble to tell a small lie than to deliver a painful truth. — Robin Williams

God loves the lowly. When we live humbly, he takes our small efforts and creates great things. — Pope Francis

The ultimate proof of confidence for a small-business owner is, are they hiring employees? — Brad D. Smith

Her life was a scattering of small moments, bits of meaningful conversations, and bright dashes of beauty where least expected. — Robin Jones Gunn

Accept the risen Jesus into your life. Even if you have been far away, take a small step towards Him. He awaits you with open arms. — Pope Francis

You can't tell big dreams to small minded people. — Steve Harvey

As I sat in a small room constructing what seemed to me awkward sentences and paragraphs, McCone was out having exciting adventures. — Marcia Muller

You render the small vast and few many,
use integrity to repay hatred,
see the complexity in simplicity,
find the vast in the minute. — Lao-Tzu

You cannot go beyond a certain limit in your expenditure if you want to bring back money from your local market, which is very small after Pakistan. — Satyajit Ray

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind — Neil Armstrong

Acknowledge all of your small victories. They will eventually add up to something great. — Kara Goucher

Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through. — Frederick Lenz

Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past. — Jack Kornfield

Several billion trillion tons of superhot exploding hydrogen nuclei rose slowly above the horizon and managed to look small, cold and slightly damp. — Douglas Adams

Hardly anyone moved to Coot Lake unless they had some kind of tie to the community. It wasn't like Coot Lake was on the Most Scenic Small Towns list. — Anonymous

I believe we're the party of small business. — Ed Gillespie

Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living? — Virginia Woolf

He said at another time that she had no heart; and he added in a moment that she had given it all away - in small pieces, like a frosted wedding-cake. — Henry James

Usually, I make such small-budget films that I can't afford to buy weather. — Andrea Arnold

Now the skies could fall
Not even if my boss should call
The world it seems so very small
'Cause nothing even matters at all — Lauryn Hill

If people-young and old-can get one thing from my book I hope it is this: that there dream do count, no matter how big or small. — April E. Brucker