“Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.” LittlesI CanChoicesCan DoCompassionBrotherDefinitionsMy Brother Author:Allen West
“I want to be able to challenge myself. And do things that are away from what I usually do. Stand-up is safe for me. I can do stand-up in front of twenty-five thousand people, and I'm like, "I know how to do this. This is what I do." I want to be a little scared.” PeopleKnowsWantLittlesI CanAbleCan DoChallengesKnow HowFiveFrontsThousandSafeTwentiesScaredTwenty Five Author:Dane Cook
“When I can do an acoustic set, I can sit down and sing. And then when I have a huge arena full of people, there's nothing like that. It's the coolest feeling in the world, but I also like to play small intimate shows because I feel you can connect a little more. And that's something I had to learn - how to connect to a big audience versus the small one.” PeopleWorldFeelsLittlesI CanPlayShowsFeelingsBigsCan DoAudienceHugeDown AndIntimateVersusArenaAcoustics Author:Avril Lavigne
“Nobody can do for little children what grandparents do. Grandparents sort of sprinkle stardust over the lives of little children.” LifeChildrenLittlesCan DoGrandmotherGrandfatherGrandparentGrandchildrenMy GrandmotherMy GrandfatherAlexGrandpaStardustChildren And GrandchildrenMy GrandchildrenGrandkidsParents And GrandparentsMy GrandmaYour GrandmotherGrandparents DaySprinklesGreat GrandfatherGrandchildren And GrandparentsGrandparents From GrandchildrenMother And GrandmotherGreat GrandparentsFunny GrandparentGreat GrandchildrenGreat GrandmotherGrandmother And GrandchildrenMother GrandmotherFunny GrandmotherBeing A GrandmotherGrand MotherHappy Mothers Day GrandmotherFunny GrandchildrenNana's And GrandchildrenHappy Grandparents DayFathers And GrandfathersGrandmas And MomsBeing A GrandmaMothers Day GrandmaBest GrandparentsGreat Grandpa Author:Alex Haley
“I'm really impotent against the overwhelming bleakness of the universe and the only thing I can do is my little gift [filmmaking] and do it the best I can, [...] which is cold comfort.” LittlesI CanUniverseCan DoColdComfortOverwhelmingFilmmakingBleakness Author:Woody Allen
“We are trading away a little bit of our country all the time for this access consumption that we have over what we've produced. That is not good. I think it's terrible over time. But our country's productive grows enough so we actually can do that, and we'll still be better off. We just don't be as well off as if we hadn't done it.” IfsThinkingWellsLittlesStillsCountryDoneEnoughGrowsBitsCan DoTerribleLittle BitAccessOur CountryProductiveConsumptionTradingBetter Off Author:Warren Buffett
“As an individual, as a household, you can't spend more money than you're bringing in. You can do it for a little while, but you end up going broke and you end up losing everything you have. That is the path that we're on as a country, and it scares me to death.” LittlesEndsCountryIndividualCan DoPathLosingBrokeScareHouseholdMore MoneyYou Can Do ItLosing Everything Author:Jeff Foxworthy
“Most people can do absolutely awe-inspiring things. Sometimes they just need a little nudge.” PeopleNeedsLittlesSometimesInspirationMotivationalMotivationCan DoLeadershipAweNudgeAwe Inspiring Author:Tim Ferriss
“Emotionally involving the audience is easy. Anybody can do it blindfolded: get a little kitten and have some guy wring its neck.” LittlesGuyEasyCan DoAudienceNecksInvolvingKittenBlindfolded Author:George Lucas
“The flimsy little protestations that mark the front gate of every novel, the solemn statements that any resemblance to real persons living or dead is entirely coincidental, are fraudulent every time. A writer has no other material to make his people from than the people of his experience ... The only thing the writer can do is to recombine parts, suppress some characterisitics and emphasize others, put two or three people into one fictional character, and pray the real-life prototypes won't sue.” PeopleLittlesPersonsTwoRealCharacterThreeCan DoNovelFrontsMaterialsPrayingMarkReal LifeStatementsGatesSolemnResemblanceReal PersonPrototypeFictional Character Author:Wallace Stegner
“I like to make my voice sound like a piece of tin that's been stuck on the side of a chair, lifted up as far as it would go and then let to spring - "doooiiinng." I like to make it into a piece of metal from time to time and I can do it, both with the movements in my throat and with, uh, my little toys... So I like to take it beyond just a voice, more into the realms of a weapon.” LittlesI CanSoundSidesVoiceCan DoPiecesMovementWeaponsSpringStuckRealmsChairsThroatMetalsToysI Can Do ItTin Author:Robert Plant
“You can be zany and funny or you can do something that really has some depth to it and serious, so there's many different colors to paint with. I would hate to get trapped in one little thing. I always feel like funny is an appendage, but it is not my whole body.” FeelsLittlesDifferentWholeBodyHateCan DoColorSeriousPaintDepthLittle ThingsTrappedCan Do SomethingDifferent Colors Author:Jim Carrey
“One thing that I don't think I do is play characters. Once you start claiming that you can do something that you're not, you're crazy. I think scripts can really surprise you. You go, "Wow, I did not know that that response could come from me. I did not know that I had that in me." And so, the process of making the movie is just finding that and digging a little deeper.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesPlayCharacterProcessCan DoOne ThingCrazyFindingsSurpriseResponseScriptsDeeperWowDiggingCan Do Something Author:Kristen Stewart
“United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and split asunder.” LittlesCan DoChallengesUnitedPowerfulDareDividedHostSplitsOddsVentureCooperativesInauguralInaugural Address Author:John F. Kennedy
“The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.” BelieveLittlesI CanHelpingJesusChristCan DoJesus ChristMercyHarmNeighborLove And FearFear God Author:Daniel Boone
“Congress is the third branch of government... which makes every one of the 535 members of Congress 1/535th of that important one-third, which works out to, hmmm, well, someone else can do the math. You wouldn't think such little wheels could make so much noise.” ThinkingWellsLittlesImportantGovernmentCan DoMembersThirdsCongressWork OutMathNoiseWheelsBranchesHmmmBranches Of Government Author:Wesley Pruden
“Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitality after a long spell of it? Can you now do it as easy as water rolls off a duck's back? If so, look out! Do some stock-taking. Examine your output.... Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Every job can be done excellently or indifferently. Excellence necessitates effort-hard, sustained, concentrated effort.” IfsFeelsLooksLittlesLongHardDoneJobsEasyWaterCan DoWorkLossResultsEffortExcellenceYieldSpellsDucksStrainYou Can Do ItVitalityFatigueWork DoneOutput Author:B. C. Forbes
“What a man can do and suffer is unknown to himself till some occasion presents itself which draws out the hidden power. Just as one sees not in the water of an unruffled pond the fury and roar with which it can dash down a steep rock without injury to itself, or how high it is capable of rising; or as little as one can suspect the latent heat in ice-cold water.” MenLittlesSufferingWaterCan DoRocksColdCapableDrawsIceOccasionsHeatRisingInjurySuspectsFuryPondsLatentSteepCold Water Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“I'd like to get shot into space. I'd like to potentially visit the moon. I don't know if I can do that in the next couple years, but I spent some time at the jet propulsion lab, looking out at the future of when a guy like me can do a little space travel.” IfsKnowsYearsLittlesI CanGuyNextCan DoSpaceCoupleMoonShotsLike MeJetLabsSpace TravelPropulsion Author:Rob Dyrdek
“By helping others, we make ourselves better, and by helping others heal, we heal ourselves. I think we can do that on an individual level and a worldwide level. I hope people have a chance to give that a little bit of thought.” PeopleThinkingGivingLittlesHelpingIndividualBitsCan DoChanceLevelsLittle BitHelping OthersHeal Author:Charles Martin Smith
“The dilemma of our lives is that boys can do everything and girls can do very little.” LittlesLife IsGirlCan DoBoysOur LivesDilemma Author:Jennifer Fox
“I might become an ascetic, live in India. A little rice is about the best I can do now.” LittlesI CanMightCan DoIndiaRice Author:Gore Vidal
“There's a lot of money in selling marijuana. If you can do it legally, that's good. Why should all the criminals make the money? This is what people are thinking. If it's happening, if it's going to be legal, let's tax it and regulate it, like we do with everything else and make some money off this. I think that's one reason why people are talking this a little more seriously.” PeopleIfsThinkingShouldLittlesReasonCan DoTalkingTaxesHappeningsCriminalsSellingReason WhyMarijuanaLots Of MoneyYou Can Do It Author:Willie Nelson
“There are a lot of little tricks you can do to inject a bit more time into the day. Most important is limiting yourself to a 40 hour week, not working 50 hours or 60 or 70. It's just crazy. It's actually irresponsible to you and irresponsible to your family and friends. Why should your employer's profits be more important than your own family? You're not even going to get any of the profits - all you get is not losing your job. It's a very negative system.” ShouldLittlesImportantJobsBitsCan DoHoursWeekCrazyLosingNegativeProfitTricksOur FamilyMore TimeFamily And FriendsEmployersIrresponsibleLimiting Yourself Author:Tom Hodgkinson
“I'm character-driven. If it's a great character and something different; because I find that a lot of the times you do get pigeon-holed, you do get the same characters over and over again because that's what producers are comfortable with. They've seen you do it, they know you can do it. I'm kind of getting a little stir crazy.” IfsKnowsKindLittlesDifferentCharacterCan DoCrazyComfortableDrivenProducersYou Can Do ItPigeonsGreat CharacterStir Crazy Author:A. J. Cook
“I think whatever it is you decide to do in life, if you want to be the very best at it, you have to be able to make sacrifices. Not everybody can do that and I think it makes our sportsmen and women that little bit special.” IfsThinkingWantLittlesAbleBitsCan DoSacrificeSpecialLittle BitMen And WomenSportsman Author:Jill Douglas
“I realize that in a happy life, making your bed should play a very small part, I don't know why this is so helpful to people getting started on a happiness project, but for some reason, making your bed - it's concrete, it's manageable. There's a big difference between having a bed that's unmade and a bed that's made. That little bit of outer order in people's lives seem to help them get started. So, that's a very small thing that you can do.” PeopleKnowsShouldLittlesMadeReasonPlayHelpingBigsSeemsOrderBitsCan DoRealizingDifferencesBedProjectsLittle BitHelpfulHappy LifeConcreteSmall ThingsSmall PartsManageableGetting Started Author:Gretchen Rubin
“At school I was called Fred, which is my middle name. At that time, Fred was considered to be a bit of a horrible name, so that's why. Otherwise, I was called Titchy because I was little. I was still only about 4ft something when I left school. I grew a foot under glass in my first year as a gardener. It's really quite amazing what sun and manure can do.” YearsFirstsLittlesStillsSchoolNamesLeftBitsCan DoSunFeetMiddleGrewGlassesHorribleGardenerManure Author:Alan Titchmarsh
“The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.” ThinkingLittlesCan DoTeachTired Author:Elaine May
“If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.” IfsWantLittlesActorsStarsCan DoCommunityActingToughTheaterConnectedYou Can Do ItMovie Star Author:Alan Arkin
“Love is not necessarily about grand gestures. It can be the little things, like someone knows you like a certain food so they pick it up for you. Stuff like that is sweet. It's little things that are nice and thoughtful that you can do every day.” KnowsLittlesCertainStuffCan DoLove IsNiceSweetPicksThoughtfulLittle ThingsGestures Author:Emma Roberts