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“When you are good at despising little things, you are likely to throw away the tiny match stick that has the potential of putting the entire forest on fire! Little things do carry heavy potentials!”

Source: Daily Drive 365

“Sitting in a corner, I live like a toad Oh! How I love my room: my tiny abode! Here I wake up; and I sleep in here The world far away; yet virtually near Not that I'm jailed in this place of grace Just don't want to face another face”

“One word is enough to destroy an entire city provided that word is backed by anger. Drop down the bullets of anger; it destroys at the speed of light!”

Hate Hatred Anger Angry Food For Thought Israelmore Ayivor Tiny Little Things Bullets One Word Malice Single Forgive Word One Small Forgive And Forget Singular

Book:Daily Drive 365

Source: Daily Drive 365

“Loss is so paradoxical: It is at once enormous and tiny.”

Loss Tiny Enormous Paradoxical

Author:Meghan O'Rourke

“Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.”

Thinking Helping Energy Cities Car Majors Mass Program India Tiny Finance Developing Pollution Electric Adoption Brazil Accommodate Renewable Energy Grids Congestion Electric Car

Author:Ginni Rometty

“It seems to me a worthy goal: try to create a representation of consciousness that's durable and truthful, i.e., that accounts, somewhat, for all the strange, tiny, hard-to-articulate, instantaneous, unwilled things that actually go on in our minds in the course of a given day, or even a given moment.”

Trying Mind Hard Moments Seems Courses Given Goal Consciousness Strange Goes On Accounts Worthy Tiny Truthful Representation Instantaneous

Author:George Saunders

“We live in a world filled with automobiles, highways of the mind, urban disasters, billions of people living on a tiny planet, sharing the diminishing natural resources of the earth.”

People World Mind Earth Humanity Natural Planets Buddhism Resources Filled Billions Tiny Disaster Urban Highways Automobile Living On Natural Resources

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny amount of people heard those songs, and I didn't make a living from it, and eventually I begged my parents to let me move back into my room.”

People Writing Jobs Moving Used Song Parent Rooms Nice Heard Amount Let Me Tiny Used To Be Fractions Really Nice

Author:Regina Spektor

“I lived an idyllic 'Huckleberry Finn' life in a tiny town. Climbing trees. Tagging after brothers. Happy. Barefoot on my pony. It was 'To Kill a Mockingbird'-esque.”

Tree Brother Towns Tiny Climbing Barefoot Ponies Idyllic Mockingbird Huckleberry Climbing Trees Kill A Mockingbird

Author:Sissy Spacek

“Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy.”

Ifs Tiny Good Work Galaxy Twinkling Keep Up The Good Work

Book:Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems

Source: Sounds, Feelings, Thoughts: Seventy Poems

“Advertising is the art of the tiny. You have to tell a complete a story and deliver a complete message in a very encapsulated form. It disciplines you to cut away extraneous information.”

Art Stories Form Cutting Information Discipline Messages Tiny Advertising

Author:Dick Wolf

“I have four grown children and two tiny grandchildren.”

Children Two Four Tiny Grandchildren Grown Children

Author:Brock Yates

“The cool thing about the universe is that it can format itself into tiny little manifestations that are not entirely aware of all aspects of life.”

Littles Universe Aspect Tiny Manifestation Hinduism Format Cool Things Aspects Of Life

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I think it’s important that nobody forgets that although Hollywood commercially dominates the world cinema, in fact what comes out of the filmmaking here is only a tiny slice out of the massive amount of operation that goes on around the world.”

Thinking World Important Facts Forget Goes On Amount Hollywood Tiny Around The World Operations Cinema Massive Filmmaking

Author:Mike Leigh

“In certain strains of Judaism, there's a profound passion for the ineffable. Contemplation of God is meant to be forever elusive, because, you know, our tiny minds can't possibly comprehend Him. If we find ourselves comprehending Him, then we can be sure we're off track.”

Ifs Knows Mind Certain Passion Forever Profound Track Tiny Contemplation Meant To Be Judaism Strain Elusive Ineffable Comprehending

Author:Ben Marcus

“From the time you are a tiny baby, a parent's love is usually unconditional. Whatever you do, your parents think you are the tops, but when their memory goes, you stop recouping the love you've put in.”

Thinking Parent Memories Love Is Love You Baby Tiny Unconditional

Author:Kevin Whately

“My high school wasn't a big public school; it was tiny. There were 36 girls in my graduating class. We were a big group of girls that by the time senior year came along couldn't wait to get away from school fast enough but we loved each other. It's really fun to see the girls at reunions now.”

Years Enough Bigs School Girl Fun Waiting Class Groups High School Tiny Get Away Graduates Senior Public School Reunion Senior Year Graduating Class

Author:Cecily von Ziegesar

“When I was in high school I moved from the big city to a tiny village of 500 people in Vermont. It was like The Waltons!”

People Bigs School Cities High School Moved Tiny Village Big Cities Vermont

Author:Daphne Zuniga

“I am just a tiny person in Africa, but there is a place for me, and for everybody, to sit down on this earth and touch it and call it their own.”

Persons Earth Tiny

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“Mma Ramotswe had a detective agency in Africa, at the foot of Kgale Hill. These were its assets: a tiny white van, two desks, two chairs, a telephone, and an old typewriter. Then there was a teapot, in which Mma Ramotswe – the only lady private detective in Botswana – brewed redbush tea. And three mugs – one for herself, one for her secretary, and one for the client. What else does a detective agency really need? Detective agencies rely on human intuition and intelligence, both of which Mma Ramotswe had in abundance. No inventory would ever include those, of course.”

Source: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

“My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that's different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn't work. Sorry about that.”

Different Problem Bits My Own Share Special Sorry Tiny Psychological Cents Consistency Diagnosis Homo Sapiens Bananas Chimpanzees Genome

Book:Engleby: A Novel

Source: Engleby: A Novel

“Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars.”

Universe Stars Behinds Shapes Flow Mathematics Tiny Atoms Curves Reins

Book:Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

Source: Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality

“We write a subscript to our mortality. We make our lives tiny diamonds in the cosmic sands.”

Writing Our Lives Tiny Sand Mortality Cosmic Diamond

Book:Justice for Hedgehogs

Source: Justice for Hedgehogs

“I went to my friend's house one day, and he had an electric guitar he had just bought with a tiny little amp. I turned the volume up to 10 and I hit one chord, and I said, I'm in love.”

Littles Said House One Day My Friends Guitar Tiny Electric Volume Chords Electric Guitar

Author:Ace Frehley

“We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.”

Ocean Infinite Tiny Boat Realms Sailor Psychoanalytic

Author:Anna Freud

“First we must see that we cannot will ourselves to be open because openness is our very nature. Any tiny residue of willing, of wanting to be open takes us away from what we are. Willing never goes beyond willing. So the only way to be free from this circle is to glimpse the truth that openness is the egoless state, that it is here and now”

Way Firsts States Willing Tiny Circles Openness Glimpse Here And Now

Book:I Am

Source: I Am

“I would say Pittsburgh softly each time before throwing him up. Whisper Pittsburgh with my mouth against the tiny ear and throw him higher. Pittsburgh and happiness high up. The only way to leave even the smallest trace. So that all his life her son would feel gladness unaccountably when anyone spoke of the ruined city of steel in America. Each time almost remembering something maybe important that got lost.”

Way Feels Important America Remember Lost Cities Son Higher Mouths Ears Tiny Spokes Throwing Smallest Steel Ruined Gladness Pittsburgh

Book:The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992

Source: The Great Fires: Poems, 1982-1992

“Today, this young woman is me, a Nobel laureate. I'm now on a journey to fulfill the wish, in my tiny capacity, of little African girls - the wish of being educated. We set up a foundation. We're giving full four-year scholarships to girls from villages that we see with potential.”

Littles Girl Wish Journey Capacity Tiny

Author:Leymah Gbowee

“I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.”

Towns Curiosity Tiny Granted Texas Small Town Small Town Life Odessa

Author:Buzz Bissinger

“In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny.”

World Company Size Tiny Mediums Eras Globalization Multinationals World Is Flat

Author:Thomas Friedman

“My role in 'Legally Blonde' was really rewarding, because I had so much fun working on the movie. I've had really rewarding experiences on tiny low budget films that you'll never see but where I had a cool time creating characters as well. I love almost all of the characters I've played.”

Wells Character Film Fun Roles Creating Lows Tiny Budgets Blonde Rewarding Experiences Creating Characters

Author:Alanna Ubach

“The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of mankind. For in one soul are contained the hopes and feelings of all Mankind.”

Humans Heart Soul Feelings Light Heaven Path Mankind Tiny Flames Human Heart Torches Light Up Blazing

Author:Khalil Gibran

“It is the tuning of the universe... It's as if at the beginning of the symphony God turns up the volume just a tiny bit.”

Ifs Turns Universe Bits Tiny Volume Symphony Tuning

Author:Benjamin Zander

“It's the same in the office, the lab, the factory. Employees and coworkers are more productive, more loyal - satisfied and happy - when they are treated fairly, decently, and with dignity than when they are used and taken for granted, when they feel like no more than a tiny cog in a giant corporate wheel.”

Source: The Business Bible: 10 New Commandments for Bringing Spirituality & Ethical Values Into the Workplace

“The field of consciousness is tiny. It accepts only one problem at a time. Get into a fist fight, put your mind on the strategy of the fight, and you will not feel the other fellow's punches.”

Feels Mind Problem Fighting Consciousness Accepting Advice Fields Fellows Strategy Tiny Fists

Book:Flight to Arras

Source: Flight to Arras

“What goes on in this one little lifetime is not so important as you might like to think it is because you're in it. When you can see the larger picture, it's just a tiny breath in a succession of breaths.”

Thinking Littles Important Might Goes On Breaths Lifetime Tiny Reincarnation Succession

Author:Frederick Lenz

“I see no reason to believe that a creator of protoplasm or primeval matter, if such there be, has any reason to be interested in our insignificant race in a tiny corner of the universe, and still less in us, as still more insignificant individuals. Again, I see no reason why the belief that we are insignificant or fortuitous should lessen our faith.”

Ifs Should Believe Stills Matter Reason Science Universe Individual Belief Interest Race Creator Corners Tiny Reason Why No Reason Insignificant Primeval Fortuitous

Author:Rosalind Franklin

“If you play men, in a way it's easier. You can have a voicebox, you can have false hair, mustaches, wigs, you can have all kinds of stuff. But when you're playing women playing men, you only really have yourself to work with, plus tiny little extras.”

Ifs Men Way Kind Littles Play Stuff Hair Easier Tiny All Kinds Extras Plus Wigs Mustache

Author:Janet McTeer

“Whatever the tiny bubbles sitting beautifully on the surface of the absolutely delicious-looking skin around his forehead and neck were, they were doing a lot for his overall appearance...and for my heart rate.”

Heart My Heart Sitting Skins Rate Appearance Surface Tiny Crush Necks Bubbles Delicious Foreheads Heart Rate

Author:LIZ

“For example, the tiny ant, a creature of great industry, drags with its mouth whatever it can, and adds it to the heap which she is piling up, not unaware nor careless of the future.”

Example Industry Creatures Mouths Add Tiny Drag Ants Careless

Author:Horace

“The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count.”

People Thinking Long Self Running Tiny Delusion Long Runs Fractions Self Delusion

Author:Robert A. Heinlein

“Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.”

Air Tiny Bolts Firefly

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)

“HELPED are those who love the entire cosmos rather than their own tiny country, city, or farm, for to them will be shown the unbroken web of life and the meaning of infinity.”

Country Cities Tiny Cosmos Patriotism Farms Infinity Unbroken Web Of Life

Book:The Temple of My Familiar

Source: The Temple of My Familiar

“There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal.”

Littles Stars Summer Tiny Cups Evening Lazy Yellow Butterfly Folds Dew Shepherds Afar Prodigals Daffodil Summer Evening

Book:Poems

Source: Poems

“My little Renoirs. Matisse describes having seen Renoir make these tiny canvases. When he had finished working, he would use up the color left in his brushes on them.”

Littles Use Left Color Painting Finished Tiny Brushes Matisse Renoir

Book:Past tense: diaries

Source: Past tense: diaries

“I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity.”

Feels Sky Tiny Rejection Overwhelming Rejected Immensity

Book:Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species.”

Art Real Running Half Art Is Rivers Stones Species Feminist Gender Tiny Cracks One Half Flawless Creeks Subjugation Feminist Art

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God.”

Source: Advent with Evelyn Underhill

“The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the straits of Belle Isle into the Gulf of St. Lawrence, where five Canadian provinces surround him, for the most part invisible... to enter Canada is a matter of being silently swallowed by an alien continent.”

Matter Past Five Travel Europe Edges Tiny Invisible Aliens Canada Surround Continents Traveler Entering Whales Provinces Slipping Jonah Isle Belle

Book:The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society

Source: The Stubborn Structure: Essays on Criticism and Society

“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

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