S Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with S. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Small does of advertising result in nothing, obviously. It's like giving a sick person half the medicine he needs. It just causes more suffering. Give the whole dose, and the cure will be certain and decisive.”
“Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead.”
“Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.”
“Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships.”
“Small facts lead to great knowing.”
Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
“Small family farmers are the only things that can save us because they take care of the land. Future farmers of America are going to be our heroes. Same with biodiesel, either way we need small family saustainable and organic farmers.”
“Small faults and virtues are for daily life. The big ones are for emergencies.”
“Small fruit is better than big words.”
“Small gestures can have a big impact.”
“Small good decisions will lead you to the glorious path of success.”
Source: A Blessed Olive Tree: A Spiritual Journey in Twenty Short Stories
“Small government is beautiful”
“Small groups have always been the locus of change. What they do, in a sometimes offhand way, is constellate new cultural forms and give birth to the unexpected. Sometimes the talk is the thing, sometimes the feeling. When we risk talking about something we really care about it's infectious. Like any good infection, such talk can produce heat, a fever of intellectual excitement.”
“Small groups of people can have a really huge impact.”
“Small groups of persons can, and do, make the rest of us think what they please about a given subject. But there are usually proponents and opponents of every propaganda, both of whom are equally eager to convince the majority.”
Source: Propaganda
“Small groups or communities may be far more oppressive to the individual than larger ones. Men are in many ways freer in large cities than in small villages.”
“Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace.”
Source: King Henry VI, pt. 1-3. King Richard III
“Small ideas grow mighty achievements”
“Small ideas that turn into big ideas - that really inspires me.”
“Small improvements in the way you use your time can translate into major differences in your life.”
Source: Mastering Your Time
“Small, inquisitive and solitary, the only child of an only son, growing up in rented lodgings or hotel rooms, constantly on the move as a boy, Anthony Powell needed an energetic imagination to people a sadly under-populated world from a child's point of view. His mother and his nurse were for long periods the only people he saw, in general the one unchanging element in a peripatetic existence.”
Source: Anthony Powell: Dancing to the Music of Time
“Small is beautiful. Three people who show up beats thirty who might.”
Source: AI and the Art of Being Human: A practical guide to thriving with AI while rediscovering yourself in the process
“Small is big for the smaller!”
“Small is good, but none is better.”
“Small is how blessings, healing, progress and increase occur.”
“Small is not beautiful unless small is skilled and dedicated.”
Source: Living at Nature's Pace: Farming and the American Dream
“Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.”
“Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.”
“Small is the position of my soul, the posture by which I approach others, God, and myself. When I'm small, I know I can't control opinions, manipulate outcomes, or force my agenda on others. When I'm small, I can move into the world confident as the person I most deeply am because I know I don't move into the world alone.
If this is true, then small is my new free.”
Source: Simply Tuesday: Small-Moment Living in a Fast-Moving World
“Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.”
“Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.”
“Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.”
Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life
“Small jerks began to appear in my legs, my walk became unsteady precisely because I wanted it to be smooth.”
Source: Hunger: A Novel
“Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.”
“Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.”
“Small launches create big confidence.”
Source: Paralyzed by Planning: How Businesses Waste Millions Before They Even Begin
“Small leisure have the poor for grief.”
Source: Mabel Martin: A Harvest Idyl
“Small life experiences give big life lessons.”
“Small loans can transform lives, especially the lives of women and children. The poor can become empowered instead of disenfranchised. Homes can be built, jobs can be created, businesses can be launched, and individuals can feel a sense of worth again.”
“Small Man can be a very funny or a very tiresome Tour Companion, depending on how this kind of thing grabs you. He gambles, he drinks too much and he always runs away. Since the Rules allow him to make Jokes, he will excuse his behaviour in a variety of comical ways. Physically he is stunted and not at all handsome, although he usually dresses flamboyantly. He tends to wear hats with feathers in. You will discover he is very vain. But, if you can avoid smacking him, you will come to tolerate if not love him. He will contrive, in some cowardly way, to play a major part in saving the world.”
“Small meals. Big changes. Your heart will thank you!”
Source: The Ultimate DASH Diet Cookbook for Beginners: 2000 Days of Low-Sodium, Heart-Healthy Recipes. Easy 30-Day Meal Plan to Lower Blood Pressure, Eat Clean ... Heart Health
“Small men oft feel a need to prove their courage with unseemly boasts," he declared. "I doubt if he could kill a duck." Tyrion shrugged. "Fetch the duck.”
Source: A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five
“Small men, seeking great wealth or power, have too often and too long turned even the highest levels of public service into mere personal opportunity.”
“Small mind competes, big mind collaborates and great mind encompasses.”
“Small-minded beings can distract you from your big dreams. Stay away from such beings, and keep working on your dreams.”
Source: 365 Inspiring Life Lessons to Empower Your Mind
“Small-minded people blame others. Average people blame themselves. The wise see all blame as foolishness”
“Small, minded people rarely have ideas, just a litany of excuses and complaints.”
“Small-mindedness is intensified by things such as big-headedness.”
“Small minds are captivated by trifles.”
“Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.”
“Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.”