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“Nature is impersonal, awe-inspiring, elegant, eternal. It's geometrically perfect. It's tiny and gigantic. You can travel far to be in a beautiful natural setting, or you can observe it in your backyard - or, in my case, in the trees lining New York City sidewalks, or in the clouds above skyscrapers.”

Beautiful Natural Perfect Cities Cases Tree New York Eternal Clouds Tiny Setting Settings Awe New York City Elegant Backyards Sidewalk Skyscraper Awe Inspiring Authentic Happiness

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“I was a tiny bug. Now a mountain. I was left behind. Now honored at the head. You healed my wounded hunger and anger, and made me a poet who sings about joy.”

Made Spiritual Joy Left Growth Behinds Poet Mountain Hunger Tiny Spiritual Growth Wounded Honored Bugs Left Behind Healed

Author:Rumi

“As a result of the assault on Christianity, the Christian faith has been isolated more and more into a tiny private sector of life and removed from the whole public spectrum of America.”

Has Beens Whole Christian America Religious Results Christianity Tiny Isolated Assault Spectrum Private Sector Christian Faith

Book:The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail: The Attack on Christianity and What You Need to Know to Combat It

Source: The Gates of Hell Shall Not Prevail: The Attack on Christianity and What You Need to Know to Combat It

“In the summer after kindergarten, a friend introduced me to the joys of building plastic model airplanes and warships. By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size. The living room rug was frequently littered with hundreds of metal “girders” and tiny nuts and bolts surrounding half-finished structures. An understanding mother allowed me to keep the projects going for days on end.”

“Start out identifying what you know are delicacies of being within, tiny little touches of knowledge that has beingness in it, special soft spots of heart. As soon as you identify them, you need to believe them.”

Knows Needs Believe Heart Littles Special Tiny Spots Identifying Delicacy

Author:John de Ruiter

“How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No human being can know more than a tiny fraction of the whole. It must have been satisfactory in ancient times when one's own land seemed to be the universe; when research studies, pamphlets, books did not issue in endless flow; when laboratories and scientists were not so rapidly pushing back frontiers of knowledge that the process of unlearning the old left you gasping for breath.”

“I've always felt it's the directors purview to say what; it's the actor's purview to say how. It's not good for an actor to have the big picture in mind - it bollocks you up. An actor's purview is the tiny little... We measure our performance in seconds.”

Mind Littles Bigs Actors Felt Directors Performances Tiny Seconds Big Picture

Author:William H. Macy

“...the City is what they want it to be: thriftless, warm, scary and full of amiable strangers. No wonder they forget pebbly creeks and when they do not forget the sky completely think of it as a tiny piece of information about the time of day or night.”

Thinking Want Night Forget Cities Wonder Pieces Sky Information Scary Stranger Warm Tiny Amiable Creeks Time Of Day

Book:Jazz

Source: Jazz

“The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!”

World Way Tiny Insane Spots Sanity Here And There

Author:John Cleese

“(J)ust to clarify: If you go into every situation saying there's absolutely nothing worth fighting over, you will inevitably end up on a cot sleeping next to a guy named Tiny, bringing him breakfast in his cell every morning, and spending your afternoons ironing his boxers. Or, in the case of the French, you might spend your afternoon rounding up Jews to send to Germany, but you get the point.”

Ifs Ends Might Guy Fighting Next Sleep Situation Morning Cases Jew Spending Tiny Cells Germany Over You Breakfast Afternoon Every Morning Absolutely Nothing Boxers Ust

Author:Jonah Goldberg

“In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure. But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether the huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever-present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable.”

“Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction.”

Source: The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated): All 4 Novels and 56 Stories with More Than 480 Illustrations

“The tiny fish enjoy themselves in the sea.”

Enjoy Sea Fishes Tiny

Book:Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

Source: Complete Poems by Lawrence: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“Do not say that I'll depart tomorrow because even today I still arrive. Look at me: I arrive in every second to be a bud on a spring branch, to be a tiny bird whose wings are still fragile, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be a jewel hiding itself in a stone.”

Looks Heart Stills Today Learning Flower Tomorrow Spring Bird Stones Wings Tiny Branches Hiding Fragile Look At Me Jewels Nests Bud Every Second Caterpillars

Author:Nhat Hanh

“I have been listening to sport and watching sport on the BBC since I was a tiny boy.”

Has Beens Sports Boys Listening Tiny Watching Sports

Author:Allan McNish

“Suppose it was demonstrated that one out of twenty alcoholics could learn to become a moderate social drinker. The experienced clinician would answer, 'Even if true, act as if it were false, for you will never identify that one in twenty, and in the attempt five in twenty will be ruined.' Investors should forsake the search for such tiny needles in huge haystacks.”

Ifs Should Social Answers Five Huge Twenties Investing Tiny Investors Ruined Moderates Alcoholics Needles Forsake Drinkers Clinicians

Author:Paul Samuelson

“A decade ago, I really did believe that the average investor could do it himself. I was wrong. I've come to the sad conclusion that only a tiny minority, at most one percent, are capable of pulling it off. Heck, if Helen Young Hayes, Robert Sanborn, Julian Robertson, and the nation's largest pension funds can't get it right, what chance does John Q. Investor have?”

Ifs Believe Doe Young Nations Chance Capable Percent Investing Average Decades Tiny Conclusion Minorities Fund Investors Pulling Pension Helen

Author:William J. Bernstein

“I happen to disagree with the well-entrenched theory that the art of conversation is merely the art of being a good listener. Such advice invites people to be cynical with one another and full of fake; when a conversation becomes a monologue, poked along with tiny cattle-prod questions, it isn't a conversation any more.”

People Wells Art Happens Women Advice Theory Conversation Tiny Fake Disagree Invites Cynical Listeners Cattle Monologues Good Listener Art Of Conversation

Author:Barbara Walters

“I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: How are you? I have a thousand brilliant lies For the question: What is God? If you think that the Truth can be known From words, If you think that the Sun and the Ocean Can pass through that tiny opening Called the mouth, O someone should start laughing! Someone should start wildly Laughing Now!”

Ifs Thinking Should God Truth Lying Known Laughing Sun Thousand Ocean Mouths Brilliant Tiny Opening

Author:Hafez

“Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance of tiny kernels of good, to which no one grants the power of causing far-reaching consequences, is entirely mysterious, however. Such seeming nothingness not only lasts but contains within itself enormous energy which is revealed gradually.”

Lasts Courses Evil Energy Grows Sides Bears Consequence Logic Fruit Tiny Enormous Resistance Mysterious Reaching Grants Nothingness Probability Seeming Kernel

Author:Czeslaw Milosz

“I am a tarsier and a tarsier's son, the grandson and great-grandson of tarsiers, a tiny creature, made up of two pupils and whatever simply could not be left out.”

Made Two Left Son Creatures Tiny Pupils Left Out Grandson

Book:Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997

Source: Poems, New and Collected, 1957-1997

“There's nothing tiny or insignificant. Everything is significant. And everything flows on the same basis of Laws. Whether you are looking at world events or something that's happening in your kitchen drawer, broad and important, or narrow and seemingly insignificant, there's potential for connection or disconnection in either case. And it is only the connection or the disconnection that is of really any importance.”

World Important Law Universe Cases Events Happenings Flow Connections Importance Bases Tiny Significant Kitchen Broads Insignificant Drawers Disconnection Learn To Appreciate World Events

Author:Esther Hicks

“As often as I have witnessed the miracle [birth], held the perfect creature with its tiny hands and feet, each time I have felt as though I were entering a cathedral with prayer in my heart.”

Heart Hands Felt Prayer Perfect Feet Birth My Heart Creatures Miracle Tiny Entering Childbirth Cathedrals Hands And Feet Tiny Hands

Book:The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger

Source: The Autobiography of Margaret Sanger

“I did not survive everything. No one ever does. Little pieces of you - sometimes the best of you - get lost in a little lie here, a little joke there. And of course, the aftereffect is the tiny sob - unseen, unheard, deeply felt.”

Littles Doe Self Sometimes Lying Courses Lost Felt Pieces Jokes Tiny Unseen Unheard

Author:Carol Grace

“Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.”

Faces Bird Angry Tiny Our Time Fierce Pigs Eagles Sparrows Fortresses Avengers Predatory Scandinavians Angry Birds Lisbeth Salander

Author:A. O. Scott

“Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay.”

Want Body Seems Beautiful Joy Water Beauty Millions Bigger Fishes Terror Tiny Flying Decay Jumping Glitter Luminous Gleam Jumping In

Author:Curt Siodmak

“Theres something about most phobias where theres a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.”

Thinking Happens Corners Tiny Phobia

Author:Roz Chast

“The legend goes that St. Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland. I was thinking... that must be hard to put all the tiny seatbelts on all the snakes.”

Thinking Hard Tiny Legends Ireland Snakes St Patrick

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“You know, that stuff about pink elephants, that's the bunk. It's little animals. Little tiny turkeys in straw hats. Midget monkeys coming through the keyholes.”

Knows Littles Stuff Animal Tiny Hats Monkeys Elephants Turkeys Straws Midget Bunk Keyholes Straw Hats

Author:Billy Wilder

“One of the cool things about ski racing is there is never a perfect run so it's hard to be satisfied in that sense, you can always go that extra step, i don't think any of us have the realistic goal of having the perfect run. Ski racing is the most variable sport out there, conditions change run-to-run, we only get one chance at it and the margin for error is tiny.”

Thinking Hard Running Sports Goal Change Chance Perfect Steps Conditions Errors Tiny Satisfied Extras Realistic Racing Margins Variables Skis Cool Things One Chance Realistic Goals Ski Racing

Author:Ted Ligety

“I had wondered for a long time why God had preferences and why all souls did not receive an equal amount of grace [...] Jesus saw fit to enlighten me about this mystery. He set the book of nature before me and I saw that all the flowers He has created are lovely. The splendor of the rose and whiteness of the lily do not rob the little violet of its scent nor the daisy of its simple charm. I realized that if every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness and there would be no wild flowers to make the meadows gay.”

“More people died as a result of the tiny abortive Easter Uprising against British rule in Ireland (1916) than died as a result of political violence in Germany during the entire National Socialist revolution.”

People Political Results Violence Revolution Died British Tiny Germany Ireland Socialist Easter Uprising Political Violence British Rule

Author:Adolf Hitler

“If one sits on the head of the Great Buddha and looks across the green valley, framed by the arch of the grotto and dotted with fort-like manors that are almost tiny villages, he has a view and a sensation of rare beauty.”

Ifs Looks Views Green Tiny Sensations Village Valleys Framed Arches Forts Rare Beauty

Author:Maynard Owen Williams

“The things that are the hardest are the things that are due the quickest. The more time you have the easier it is to come up with things and navigate. I think the other things that are tough are films that are very, very subtle. Where there are little tiny nuances that make a big difference.”

Thinking Littles Bigs Film Differences Easier Tough Come Up Dues Tiny Hardest Subtle More Time Nuance Navigate

Author:Christopher Lennertz

“Investigative journalism has been relegated to a very, very tiny space in America. We don't really have much investigative journalism left. And the last refuge for it is documentary filmmaking.”

Has Beens Lasts America Left Space Tiny Journalism Filmmaking Refuge Documentaries Investigative Journalism

Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

“I like big drinks that aren't afraid of the alcohol in them. Not big in size, but in flavor, and the way I can allow myself to enjoy them is by making them in very small quantities. I make tiny glasses of very big drinks.”

Way I Can Bigs Enjoy Drink Glasses Size Alcohol Tiny Quantity Flavor

Author:Rachel Maddow

“When you have passion it changes your perspective on things, you want every tiny detail to be right. You want funny moments to be funny, sad moments to be sad. You wanna give your all.”

Want Giving Passion Perspective Details Tiny Perspective On Things

Author:Alex Pettyfer

“There's also something about your bed; it's sort of a symbol of yourself and of your marriage, if you're married. Making your bed doesn't seem to be an important thing in a happy life, and yet it can be that tiny foothold into a more orderly life that sometimes people need.”

People Ifs Needs Important Sometimes Seems Bed Married Important Things Tiny Symbols Happy Life Orderly

Author:Gretchen Rubin

“I love New York. It's given me so much as a designer. When I moved here, I wanted to tap into the glamour of the city immediately. More than anywhere else, New York offers itself up - you arrive and get a rush in a flash. It's dazzling. Everywhere you look, there is decoration, from a pair of jewel-encrusted shoes in the window in Bergdorf Goodman to the Chrysler Building. And New York is incredibly democratic. Everyone is packed into this tiny space. You are confronted with all manner of people, and I love that.”

“When we blew the first atomic bomb at White Sands near the end of the war, nobody knew what was going to happen. There was a theory that the chain reaction would continue forever. And we would have created a little tiny sun out there in the desert that would burn until the end of the universe. It wasn't a widely held theory but it was a theory that nobody had a way of disproving. There were people who thought it wouldn't go off at all, that it would simply sit out there and melt and produce a great big dirty cloud of radioactivity. Nobody knew.”

People Way Firsts Littles War Ends Bigs Happens Universe White Sun Forever Produce Theory Clouds Tiny Reactions Chains Desert Dirty Bombs Sand Atomic Bomb Chain Reactions White Sand

Author:Stephen King

“The only way to be turned off to being famous is to be famous. And I only have like a tiny, tiny bit of that, and I'm already disgusted by it. But I realize that the only way to be disgusted by fame is to be famous, because otherwise it looks amazing. Then people stop you on the street, and it's like the most annoying thing in the world. The first time it happened it's great, and then the second time you have to shake somebody's hand.”

People World Way Firsts Looks Hands Bits Realizing Happened Streets Fame First Time Tiny Shakes Annoying Being Famous Disgusted Turned Off Annoying Things

Author:Jesse Eisenberg

“I'm a full-on appetizer kind of guy. I'm a Lunchables fanatic, too. I like anything tiny that you can make in front of you and eat. I'm fascinated by that. I don't know why but it's something I've always had.”

Knows Kind Guy Fronts Tiny Fascinated Fanatics Appetizers

Author:Charlie Barnett

“I've directed bits of action and so I know that it's long and it's very detailed. Editing action is a good deal more exciting than shooting action. Shooting action is very, very meticulous, it's increments, tiny little pieces.”

Knows Littles Long Action Bits Deals Pieces Exciting Tiny Shooting Editing Meticulous

Author:Sam Mendes

“Relatively, there are many scientists who believe in God. And in Oxford, where I am the Professor, there are more professors like me, who believe in God, than you think. There are not dozens of them, but they are there, and in Cambridge too, and elsewhere. We are not in a tiny minority.”

Thinking Believe Scientist Tiny Like Me Minorities Believe In God Professors Dozen Elsewhere Oxford Cambridge

Author:John Lennox

“If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is?”

Ifs Men God Imagine Ocean Tiny Boundless

Book:Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma

Source: Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma

“All religions enjoined worship of the One God who is all-pervasive. He is present even in a drop of water or in a tiny speck of dust.”

God Water Worship Tiny Dust Specks Drop Of Water

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.”

Littles Strong Power Produce Huge Weight Tiny Carrie Outlets Steam Reservoirs

Book:Gandhi on Nehru

Source: Gandhi on Nehru

“Chances are, the aliens will not want to land on our backyard, or even the White House lawn, with their flying saucers. They may have tiny, robotic self-replicating probes which can reach near light speed and can proliferate around the galaxy. So instead of the Enterprise and huge star ships, the aliens might actually send tiny probes to explore the universe. One might land on our lawn and we won't even know.”

Knows Want May Self Light Might Universe House Stars Chance White Land Huge Speed Tiny Flying Ships Aliens Enterprise White House Galaxy Chances Are Lawns Robotics Backyards Flying Saucers

Author:Michio Kaku

“I wouldn't be with a man who was scared of me, but I don't think men are scared of me - look at me, I'm tiny. I don't think I'm capable of putting anyone off. I'm a nice girl.”

Thinking Men Looks Girl Nice Capable Scared Tiny Look At Me Nice Girl

Author:Amy Winehouse

“My writing process isn't a very organized thing. The actual writing part is a tiny part of my life. I often write in public. I bring my laptop or write freehand in notebooks. Then, I'll read through them while I exercise or walk the dog. The very last thing I do is the sitting alone at the computer part.”

Writing Lasts Process Walks Dog Exercise Computer Sitting Tiny Organized Writing Process Notebook Laptops Sitting Alone

Author:Chuck Palahniuk

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