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Small Quotes (page 82)

I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it. Jeanette Winterson
William Gibson quote: "Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally..."
Fiction is an illusion wrought with many small, conventionally symbolic marks, triggering visions in the minds of others William Gibson
…it charms mere eyesight to believe The nearest thing not trees Is the sky, into which The trees reach, opening their luminous new leaves… and thought finds rest beneath a brightened tree In which, unseen, a warbler feeds and sings. His song’s Small shapely melody Comes down irregularly, as all light’s givings come.” Sabbaths 1999 III Wendell Berry
Stephen Hawking quote: "Each exists for but a short time, and in that time explore but..."
Each exists for but a short time, and in that time explore but a small part of the whole universe. Stephen Hawking
I'm not saying we shouldn't grieve. Just, why don't we put it in God's hands? she said. Why haven't we learned this, after all the evidence of all the dead? We're supposed to believe in God but then why don't we obey the laws of God's universe, which teach us how small we are and where we're all going to end up? Don DeLillo
Praying It doesn’t have to be the blue iris, it could be weeds in a vacant lot, or a few small stones; just pay attention, then patch a few words together and don’t try to make them elaborate, this isn’t a contest but the doorway into thanks, and a silence in which another voice may speak. Mary Oliver
Stephenie Meyer quote: "And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect..."
And then we continued blissfully into this small but perfect piece of our forever. Stephenie Meyer
George Orwell quote: "If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones."
If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones. George Orwell
Fyodor Dostoevsky quote: "Woe to the man who offends a small child!"
Woe to the man who offends a small child! Fyodor Dostoevsky
e earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said. Samuel Beckett
So black was the way ahead that my progress consisted of long periods of inert despondency punctuated by spasmodic lurches forward towards any small chink of light that I thought I saw...As the years went by, it did not get lighter but I became accustomed to the dark Quentin Crisp
John Irving quote: "when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with..."
when however small a measure of jealousy is mixed with misunderstanding, there is always going to be trouble. John Irving
That is the paradox of the epidemic: that in order to create one contagious movement, you often have to create many small movements first. Malcolm Gladwell
You can feel people staring: it's like heat that rise from the pavement during summer, like a poker in the small of your back. You don’t have to hear a whisper, either, to know that it’s about you. I use to stand in front of the mirror in the bathroom to see what they are staring at. I wanted to know what made their heads turn, what it was about me that was so incredibly different. At first I couldn’t tell. I mean, I was just me. Then one day. When I looked in the mirror, I... Jodi Picoult
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one. Mark Twain

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