S Quotes
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“Small minds are subdued by misfortunes, greater minds overcome them.”
“Small minds can never handle great themes.”
“Small minds cannot grasp great ideas; to their narrow comprehension, their purblind vision, nothing seems really great and important but themselves.”
“Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.”
“Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand. There are those who create... and those who tear down.”
Source: The Lost Symbol
“Small minds have always lashed out at what they don't understand.”
“Small minds just like light winds can never create giant waves.”
“Small minds just like small stones can never create giant waves.”
“Small minds seem to often miss the small print.
Then they tend to make a big fuse about how they got taken advantage of and screwed over by the very things they agreed to.”
“Small minds select narrow roads; expand your mental vision and take to the broad road of helpfulness, compassion and service.”
“Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.”
“Small mistakes tend to lead to large ones. Ours is a lifetime appoinment, and all you have is your reputation. Once it's gone, it doesn't comeback.”
Source: The Simple Truth
“Small mistakes, the lack of care, little accidents, and somewhere a tipping point is passed and things go badly wrong. Expedition history brims with tragedies built out of incremental missteps.”
“Small moments we find so pointless can become cherished memories with time and the perspective that wisdom brings.”
Source: Broken Faith
“Small Moth...
She's slicing ripe white peaches
into the Tony the Tiger bowl
and dropping slivers for the dog
poised vibrating by her foot to stop their fall
when she spots it, camouflaged,
a glimmer and then full on-
happiness, plashing blunt soft wings
inside her as if it wants
to escape again.”
“Small movie, small role, giant movie, giant role. Work is work. You've got to tell the truth and show up.”
“Small museums are great. Big museums are a drag.”
“Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.”
“Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.”
“Small numbers make no difference to God. There is nothing small if God is in it.”
“Small objects, like the Walkman first and then the iPod, create bubbles of space around us that enable us to have a metaphysical space that is much bigger than our physical space.”
“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.”
“Small opportunities often presage great enterprises.”
“Small particles succeed in uniting, and their ordering is not regulated by smaller or bigger masses because, in the primordial state, there are no bigger or smaller masses. The mover puts everything in motion or creates an illusion of movement. The mover produced enough vibration to cause the formation of quarks, electrons, and possibly “other particles” from the primordial foggy fluid and fire in trillions of degrees.”
Source: ABSOLUTE
“Small people delight in what they call consistency-that is, it gives them immense pleasure to say that they believe now exactly as they did ten years ago. This simply amounts to a certificate that they have not grown-that they have not developed-and that they know just as little now as they ever did. The highest possible conception of consistency is to be true to the knowledge of today, without the slightest reference to what your opinion was years ago.”
Source: Tributes and miscellany
“Small people have small minds, and thus deride big dreamers.
Small people have small hearts, and thus disparage big chancers.
Small people have small souls, and thus disdain big achievers.”
“Small people will find your flaw and make it huge; big people will find your flaw and block it out completely, by sitting next to you. Therefore, hang out with big people.:)”
“Small pictures since the Renaissance are like novels; large pictures are like dramas in which one participates in a direct way.”
Source: Black paintings
“Small pitchers have wyde eares.”
Source: The Proverbs of John Heywood: Being the
“Small players learn to be intuitive, to anticipate, to protect the ball. A guy who weighs 90 kilos doesn't move like one who weighs 60. In the playground I always played against much bigger kids and I always wanted the ball. Without it, I feel lost.”
“Small pleasures and little vices combine to make life happy.”
Source: Crossing the Mirage - Passing through youth
“Small pockets of survivalist groups were the only ones, who really stood a chance in any of the Infected States of America, as they had become known. The governments had either abandoned these states or were overthrown by militia forces. People were forced to defend themselves.”
Source: The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.”
“Small price to pay for beauty.”
“Small projects need much more help than great.”
“Small puffs came from Ruth's mouth, and he presumed it was a chuckle. Or sulfur.”
Source: How the Light Gets In
“Small quarrels and tensions were expected because of our new environment. Every relationship has them. Each quarrel was soon forgotten and floated away on a wave. And then sometimes, on our silly days, the arguments returned on the wave, but the wave returned taller, a Tsunami, and neither of us knew where to run or what to do.”
“Small, regular care beats big, rare fixes. Ten minutes a week grows a calm, reliable garden”
Source: Small Garden Design Secrets: Small-Space Gardening & Container Planting Tips to Create a Green Oasis on Patios, Balconies & Courtyards: Transform Limited Space into a Blooming Retreat
“Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.”
Source: The notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
“Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray.”
“Small sacrifices must be made.”
“Small said, "But what about when we are dead and gone, will you love me then, does love go on?"
…Large (replied) "Look at the stars, how they shine and glow, some of the stars died a long time ago. Still they shine in the evening skies, for you see…love like starlight never dies…”
Source: No Matter What
“Small samples in the centrifuge will spin at varying rates to create synthetic gravity, like the gravity of Mars or the gravity of the moon, and measure how the specimens respond within the centrifuge.”
“Small scale is critical to local life, to the ability of local people to control what happens where they live.”
“Small science, which includes most research in the life sciences all over the world, is science directed usually by an individual senior scientist and a small team of junior associates, perhaps three, ten, fifteen, something in that order.”
“Small seedlings are often stronger when they grow with company rather than isolation.”
Source: Grow Together: 50 Planting Partnerships to Boost Your Harvests
“Small service is true service, while it lasts.”
Source: Yarrow Revisited,: And Other Poems
“Small shifts at the appropriate levels can produce greater changes throughout systems. Incentives are strong leverage points because they represent the rules of the system and its boundaries.”
Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World
“Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.”
Source: Moving Through Parallel Worlds To Achieve Your Dreams
“Small sorrows speak great ones are silent.”