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“There is little hope of equity where rebellion reigns.”

Littles Rebellion Reign Equity

Book:Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

Source: Aphorisms of Sir Philip Sidney: With Remarks

“You cannot have a good character today and at the same time have a small mind and a little heart. You cannot have a good character today and be merely a petty reformer.”

Mind Heart Littles Character Today Goodness Petty Good Character Reformers Small Minds

Author:A. Powell Davies

“If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.”

Ifs World Littles Art Process Imagination Forget Blame Works Of Art Anticipation Selection Anticipate Simplification

Book:The Art of Travel

Source: The Art of Travel

“Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often not in the strictest spirit of charity, it is singular how little we are inclined to think that others can speak ill-naturedly of us, and how angry and hurt we are when proof reaches us that they have done so.”

Thinking Littles Done Character Spirit Speak Given Hurt Angry Charity Ill Proof Considering

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“Daisies infinite Uplift in praise their little growing hands, O'er every hill that under heaven expands.”

Littles Hands Heaven Growing Praise Infinite Uplifting Hills Daisies

Author:Ebenezer Elliott

“Music - so different from painting - is the art which we enjoy most in company with others. A symphony, presented in a room with one other listener, would please him but little.”

Littles Art Different Enjoy Rooms Company Painting Please Listeners Symphony

Book:On Music and Musicians

Source: On Music and Musicians

“Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!”

Littles Voice Sea Land Cry Bird Fairs Wave Melancholy Rejoice Dwellers

Author:Richard Henry Dana, Jr.

“I should love to do a novel, about one abnormal character seeing present-day life, very ordinary life, yet arresting through it, abnormality, until at the end the reader sees, and with little reluctance, that he is not abnormal at all, and that the main character might as well be himself.”

Should Wells Littles Ends Character Might Novel Seeing Reader Ordinary Abnormal Present Day Ordinary Life Day Life Reluctance Main Characters Abnormality Arresting

Author:Patricia Highsmith

“I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.”

Thinking Children Littles Childhood Sight Saving Thrones Loafing

Book:Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces

Source: Pike County Ballads and Other Pieces

“A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.”

May Littles Draws Observation Thrive Maintenance Matrimony Single Life Bachelors Yoke

Book:Love's sacrifice. Perkin Warbeck. The fancies chaste and noble

Source: Love's sacrifice. Perkin Warbeck. The fancies chaste and noble

“A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.”

Men Wells Littles Deals Ill Wit Instance Satire

Book:The wisdom of being religious

Source: The wisdom of being religious

“Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind.”

Ifs Mind Littles Virginity

Author:Herbert Beerbohm Tree

“The shoulders of a borrower are always a little straighter than those of a beggar.”

Littles Shoulders Beggar Borrowing Borrowers

Author:Morris L. Ernst

“Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong. Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention. The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.”

Littles Difficult Lines Impossible Invention Retreat Wretched Little Time

Author:Fridtjof Nansen

“I like raunchiness, not like in a biker-chick sort of a way, but like the girl can't help it. Little bruises, a few hairs out of place, a little stain here and there.”

Way Littles Helping Girl Hair Here And There Chicks Stains Bruises Bikers Biker Chick

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“Art has no cosmology, it gives us no view of the universe; every distinct work of art gives us a little cosmology of its own, and no ingenuity will combine all these into a single whole.”

Giving Littles Art Whole Universe Views Works Of Art Ingenuity Cosmology

Author:Robin G. Collingwood

“Goethe said there would be little left of him if he were to discard what he owed to others.”

Ifs Littles Said Would Be Left Plagiarism

Author:Charlotte Saunders Cushman

“This, indeed, is one of the eternal paradoxes of both life and literature-that without passion little gets done; yet, without control of that passion, its effects are largely ill or null.”

Littles Done Passion Literature Effects Eternal Ill Enthusiasm Paradox Null

Book:Style: The Art of Writing Well

Source: Style: The Art of Writing Well

“Don't cudgel your brains over my little problems.”

Littles Problem Brain

Author:Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

“A little boy was asked how he learned to skate. 'By getting up every time I fell down,' he answered.”

Littles Boys Perseverance Little Boys Skates

Author:David Seabury

“What do I want to express? The subject means little. The arrangement, the design, colour, shape, depth, light, space, mood, movement, balance, not one or all of these fills the bill. There is something additional, a breath that draws your breath into its breathing, a heartbeat that pounds on yours, a recognition of the oneness of all things.”

Source: Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr

“What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.”

Littles Art Moments Lying Artist Fall Audience Creating Falling In Love Tiny Live In The Moment Slides

Author:Lady Gaga

“Am I going to change the world, or am I going to change me? Or maybe change the world a little bit, just by changing me?”

World Littles Bits Change Little Bit Changing The World

Book:Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

Source: Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years

“I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.”

Littles Wanted Night Girl Father Dad Tables Italian Every Night Skinny Ballerina Voluptuous Meatballs Italian Girl

Author:Lady Gaga

“Parents can be very influential in designing those little creepy-crawlers that jump around in your mind for the rest of your life. It's the fear of not being good enough.”

Mind Littles Enough Parent Design Be Good Insecurity Good Enough Rest Of Your Life Influential Creepy Being Good Enough Not Being Good Enough

Author:Kim Basinger

“Walter [Cronkite] sang me a little sea chantey. The verse ended, 'Just watch your back with Dan [Rather], dear, just watch your back with Dan.'.”

Littles Watches Sea Dear Verses

Author:Connie Chung

“This is the truth as I see it, my dear, Out in the wind and the rain: They who have nothing have little to fear, Nothing to lose or to gain.”

Littles Loses Wind Gains Rain Dear Possession Fear Not Nothing To Lose Fear Nothing

Book:The Cup of Comus: Fact and Fancy

Source: The Cup of Comus: Fact and Fancy

“Although his playing career with the Broncos took place before my time with the team, I am well aware of what Floyd Little means to this franchise, city and league. Aside from his stellar play on the field, he helped make the Broncos relevant in the NFL and strengthened the bond between this team and its fans. He has waited a long time for this honor, and I couldn't be happier for him.”

Wells Mean Littles Long Play Cities Careers Team Fans Fields Honor Long Time League Nfl My Time Relevant Stellar Broncos

Author:Pat Bowlen

“It may take a little self-discipline - be simple, be kind, stay rested. Attend to your own inner-health and happiness.”

Kind May Littles Self Simple Discipline Be Kind Self Discipline

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Your ego is an avid interpreter. It is so quick to interpret events as 'bad' or 'good,' 'wrong' or 'right.' It never fails to see 'the little picture.”

Littles Failing Events Ego Interpreter Avid Wrong Or Right

Book:Shift Happens!: Powerful Ways to Transform Your Life

Source: Shift Happens!: Powerful Ways to Transform Your Life

“I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece.”

Littles Kids Pieces Strange Loud Piano Little Kid

Author:Lady Gaga

“You've got to be a little vicious. You've got to be narcissistic. You've got to be on fire about your career.”

Littles Careers Fire Burning Vicious Narcissistic

Author:Howard Stern

“Christmas Eve I saw a stable, low and very bare, A little child in a manger. The oxen knew Him, had Him in their care, To men He was a stranger, The safety of the world was lying there, And the world's danger.”

Men World Children Littles Care Lying Saws Danger Lows Safety Stranger Stable Christmas Eve Oxen

Author:Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

“One of the things Wall Street does not like is ambiguity. Now that the agreement is there, it begins to make the future look a little less cloudy, and that's positively received by Wall Street.”

Looks Littles Doe Streets Wall Agreement Positively Ambiguity Cloudy

Author:Philip M. Condit

“The fact that John Prescott is being paid large sums of money to do little or nothing adds to the general malaise surrounding this government and the feeling that ministers are incapable of tackling serious issues.”

Littles Facts Feelings Government Issues Serious Paid Add Ministers Incapable Tackling Malaise Serious Issues

Author:Vince Cable

“Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.”

Littles Mistake Perfection Charm Premises

Author:Catherine Deneuve

“I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.”

Thinking Littles Parent My Family Devoted

Author:Lady Gaga

“Repentance is for little children.”

Children Littles Repentance

Author:Adolf Eichmann

“Maybe further down the road in my career, in a couple of years when I'm maybe not that fast any more around the court, then maybe it would be good to come to the net a little bit more often”

Years Littles Would Be Bits Careers Couple Little Bit Court Be Good Down The Road

Author:Roger Federer

“You can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!”

Mind Littles Sound Imagination Sound And Music

Author:Stan Freberg

“At first, one sees the person who is modelling; but little by little, all of the possible sculptures that could be made come between artist and model.”

Firsts Littles Persons Made Artist Models Sculpture Modelling

Author:Alberto Giacometti

“I believe that if you have faith in your own abilities then in the end others will have faith in them too, even if they need a little persuading.”

Ifs Needs Believe Littles Ends I Believe Ability Have Faith Persuading

Author:Chuck Grassley

“I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what is outdoors. You walk outside; the rocks are inert; even the clouds are inert. It makes me feel a little better. But I do have a faith that it is possible to make a living thing, not a diagram of what I have been thinking: to posit with paint something living, something that changes each day.”

Thinking Feels Looks Littles Has Beens Real Country Nature Walks Rocks Painting Paint Clouds Studios Woods Each Day Living Things Diagrams

Book:Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

Source: Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations

“There`s a good sense of fun and lack of sarcasm in the Texans, maybe a little earnestness which is kind of why I found it quite Australian.”

Kind Littles Found Fun Sarcasm Australian Good Sense Earnestness Texan

Author:Rachel Griffiths

“People tend to think astronauts have the courage of a superhero - or maybe the emotional range of a robot. But in order to stay calm in a high-stress, high-stakes situation, all you really need is knowledge. Sure, you might still feel a little nervous or stressed or hyper-alert. But what you won't feel is terrified.”

Source: An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth

“Loneliness... has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world... because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more... connected to the seven billion other people.”

People World Mind Littles States Whole Earth Felt Cities Loneliness Planets Window Seven Connected Billions State Of Mind Location Centre

Author:Chris Hadfield

“There's a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu, There's a little marble cross below the town, There's a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew, And the yellow god forever gazes down.”

Littles Forever Broken Crosses Towns Mad Graves Yellow Idols Hearted Marble Broken Hearted

Author:J. Milton Hayes

“Anything, everything, can be learned if you can just get yourself in a little patch of real ground, real nature, real wood, real anything ? and just sit still and watch.”

Ifs Littles Stills Real Reality Watches Learning Woods Realism Patches

Author:Lauren Hutton

“Scary in the idea it could be a little overwhelming to have 70 or 100 clowns in a public space. Intriguing in that it could be something interesting. I'm up for any kind of public art.”

Kind Littles Art Ideas Space Interesting Scary Overwhelming Clown Intriguing Something Interesting Public Art

Author:Carole King

“Emotion that I experienced on first seeing the fresh paint come out of the tube.. ..the impression of colours strewn over the palette: of colours - alive, waiting, as yet unseen and hidden in their little tubes...”

Firsts Littles Waiting Emotion Alive Seeing Experience Paint Impression Colour Unseen Tubes Palette

Author:Wassily Kandinsky