Small In The World Quotes

We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge. — R.S. Thomas

I grew up in a very small town which is remote even by Indian standards. I always dreamed of the world. — Mira Nair

The town wakes early, like it does every day; small towns need a head start if they're going to have any chance in the world. — Fredrik Backman

The people of this world make a god for themselves in their own image, and in doing so they make God far, far, far, too small. — Ted Dekker

To enjoy the beauty of love, be a big person in this small world. — Debasish Mridha

The sun kept on with its slipping away, and I thought how many small good things in the world might be resting on the shoulders of something terrible. — Carol Rifka Brunt

My world got very small, the way it always does when someone in your family is sick. — Anita Diamant

Although an act of help done timely, might be small in nature, it is truly larger than the world itself. — Thiruvalluvar

It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect. — Yehuda Berg

I like the world, but I feel very, very Italian. I love the small parts of my country: Tuscany, Capri in the winter. I don't like big towns. — Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love. — Marilyn Monroe

There is a certain kind of small town that grows like a boil on the ass of every Army base in the world. — Neal Stephenson

People from small towns have to have their edges roughed up to get along in the world. But as a street reporter, you learn quickly. — Bill Kurtis

In our lifetimes, we can only know a small portion of what exists. The world is endless and its treasures are inexhaustible. — Barry Webster

We shall all be the gainers if we can create a world fit for small states to live in. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle. — Robert Alden

All the wisdom in the world cannot put in one's heart the love one yearned for as a small child. — Tian Dayton

The world's most difficult affairs
begin in easiness.
The world's greatest affairs
always begin in the small. — Lao-Tzu

New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket. — Eddie Huang

No people in the world can make you feel so small as the English. — Robertson Davies

In the end it is all about loving your family. For one the family can be as small as single person or as big as whole world. — Pratik Akkawar

Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room. — William Butler Yeats

The world is big in some ways, and so small in others. — Ashly Lorenzana

I believe in the principle that I can make a difference in this world. It may be ever so small, but it will count for the greater good. — Gordon B. Hinckley

He thought that in the history of the world it might even be that there was more punishment than crime but he took small comfort from it. — Cormac McCarthy

The biggest in the world is small in its beginning. — Laozi

In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still. — Patrick Bergin

I think in all small towns, all kind of working class communities around the world. They are kind of similar. — Sacha Baron Cohen

See the world as it truly is, small and blue, beautiful in that eternal silence where it floats. — Archibald MacLeish

Like a small boat adrift in the fog, she caught glimpses during patches when the mist cleared of a world far away, in which everything was changing. — Ruth Ozeki

Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently. — Charlotte Bronte

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in the world. Kindness, can change the lives of people. — Aung San Suu Kyi

I'm interested in how small the world really is, and this notion that what happens in one place affects someone else. — Tim Kring

The greatest secret in the world is that you only have to be a small measurable amount better than mediocrity ... and you've got it made. — Og Mandino

I've learned what it truly means to be Canadian and in turn I've been inspired to make a difference in the world, however small it's been. — Clara Hughes

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. — Diane Ackerman

He sat across from her and took her small hands in his own. Babe, you don't have to carry the world. I've got it, okay? — Barbara O'Neal

God's message extends beyond borders. Anyone in the world can learn to forgive those who have injured them, however great or small that injury may be. — Immaculee Ilibagiza

Love can be a small oasis in the middle of a dry, heartless world. — Jose N. Harris

I developed 'Trapped' because I was fascinated with the idea of a terrible crime in a small town cut off from the rest of the world. — Baltasar Kormakur

For the next ten years, until 1251, she and a small group of other women controlled the largest empire in world history. — Jack Weatherford

I aimlessly travel, meaning I have no agenda other than to get small in the world, be quiet and observe people. — Walton Goggins

The worm in the radish doesn't think there is anything sweeter. — Sholem Aleichem

Together in our house, in the firelight, we are the world made small. — Jennifer Donnelly

The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the world. — August Tholuck

The thing is, you don't get many choices when you're stuck in a secret. The world gets so small, you learn to be grateful for whatever you can get. — Amy Reed

Be consoled in knowing the world depends upon the small beating in your heart. — Sue Monk Kidd

Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them. — Lee Haney

The small choices and decisions we make a hundred times a day add up to determining the kind of world we live in. — Harold S. Kushner

fun isn't the experience of pleasure, but the outcome of tinkering with a small part of the world in a surprising way. Think — Ian Bogost

One small action of love can do far, far more for a soul than all the most beautiful words in the world. — Eileen Caddy

In the sunny world, with its small things moving too fast, I shy away from light and in the attic cuss the dark. — Andre Alexis

And when this grand canvas, our life, is finished, may the world in some small or large way be a better place. — Robert Regis Dvorak

I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints. — Maira Kalman

She encouraged herself to see her very small presence in the world as a good thing, a power, something that a hero might possess. — Helen Oyeyemi

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. — C.S. Lewis

You may live in an unknown small village, but if you have big ideas, the world will come and find you! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Take time to learn about the lives of women around the world-and try to play a small part in their fight to create the future they deserve. — Melinda Gates

I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world. — Mira Nair

To be engaged in some small way in the revival of one of the great cities of the world is to live a meaningful existence by default. — Chris Rose

Detroit is big enough to matter in the world and small enough for you to matter in it. — Jeanette Pierce

I felt significantly insignificant, as if my presence in the world, albeit small, was still necessary. — Jewel E. Ann

The dance world is too small in lots of ways - it's too intense, it rattles around itself, and it needs exposing to other ideas. — Siobhan Davies

I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world. — V.S. Naipaul

Try to make others happy, and don't despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one small lamp. — Mata Amritanandamayi

The whole world around me is the small world in your fingers. — M.F. Moonzajer

In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish, — Klaus Schwab

When we come upon beautiful things they act like small tears in the surface of the world that pull us through to some vaster space. — Elaine Scarry

Just about anybody is a big girl in a small world but you gotta believe it on the inside, that you can be bigger than the rest of it. — Lizzo

Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world. — Annie Dillard

Too small is our world to allow discrimination, bigotry and intolerance to thrive in any corner of it, let alone in the United States of America. — Eliot Engel

The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit. — Graham Greene

The world is full of terrible suffering, compared to which the small inconveniences of my childhood are as a drop of rain in the sea. — Richard Rhodes

Many small people, in small places, doing small things can change the world. — Eduardo Galeano

I love a small dinner party - let's say six people, max, were everybody's having the same conversation. That's my favorite thing in the world. — Paul F. Tompkins

I think the world of comedy is a relatively small community, and especially for women in comedy, there just aren't that many people involved. — Ari Graynor

A great deal of time and intellectual force are lost in the world, because the false seems great and the truth so small and insignificant. — Maria Montessori

Inevitably we make a small world in the midst of a big one. For a small world is all we know how to make.'p46 — Rose Tremain

In the darkness, I returned to that small world of hers. — Haruki Murakami

By saying you don't care if the world falls apart, in some small way you're saying you want it to stay together, on your own terms. — John Green

The world thinks eccentricity in great things is genius, but in small things, only crazy. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

I just want to die knowing that I've made a difference in the world... or at least a difference to someone, no matter how small the difference. — Eloise Dyson

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want — F Scott Fitzgerald

In countless small ways the world around us grows gradually shittier. Well, I don't like it at all. — Bill Bryson

At the age of twelve I was finding the world too small: it appeared to me like a dull, trim back garden, in which only trivial games could be played. — Elizabeth Bowen

Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger - except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller. — Warren St. John

There is so much we can do to render service, to make a difference in the world - no matter how large or small our circle of influence. — Stephen Covey

Every day can be a pilgrimage, if the goal is a deeper sense of your small role in the revolving world. — Dan Rubinstein

The biggest problem in the world could have been solved when it was small. — Witter Bynner

The world looks too small when you believe in your eyes — Saqib Abraham

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The created world is but a small parenthesis in eternity' something quite different, relating to the planet's life-span, not individual life-span. — Thomas Browne