Littlenesses Quotes & Sayings

The fear of man, the trust in man, the deference to the opinion of man, is the merest worship of a rag-stuffed idol. — George MacDonald

The chaos lies all within. — V.S. Naipaul

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament. — Rem Koolhaas

Strokes carry a message whether you will it or not. The stroke is just like the artist at the time he makes it. All the certainties, all the uncertainties, all the bigness of his spirit and the littlenesses are in it. — Robert Henri

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. — Ayn Rand

Michelangelo felt ill. He asked himself if what he was feeling was fear. Yet he knew that it was something more, something in his experience akin to the sacking of the Medici palace, the deterioration
of Piero, an awareness of the senseless destructiveness that lay inherent in time and space, ready to lash out and destroy. — Irving Stone

So does a whole world, with all its greatnesses and littlenesses, lie in a twinkling star. And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it. — Charles Dickens

Wearing the white flower of a blameless life, Before a thousand peering littlenesses, In that fierce light which beats upon a throne, And blackens every blot. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Daughter! Get you an honest Man for a Husband, and keep him honest. No matter whether he is rich, provided he be independent. Regard the Honour and moral Character of the Man more than all other Circumstances. Think of no other Greatness but that of the soul, no other Riches but those of the Heart. An honest, Sensible humane Man, above all the Littlenesses of Vanity, and Extravagances of Imagination, labouring to do good rather than be rich, to be usefull rather than make a show, living in a modest Simplicity clearly within his Means and free from Debts or Obligations, is really the most respectable Man in Society, makes himself and all about him the most happy. — John Adams

There is only one death, so let it be in the path of Allah — Sheikh Abdullah

I really never imagined that I could ever even direct anything, so 'Girls Like Girls' was co-directed. — Hayley Kiyoko

The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all. — H.L. Mencken

I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be in military service - it can be anything you're doing with someone that matters. You develop a bond. — Stanley A. McChrystal

To be alone means that you avoid bad company. But to have a true friend is better than being alone. — Umar

I promote my value to others with passion and enthusiasm. — T. Harv Eker

Instead of being the A/V dweeb about to ask the head cheerleader to the prom, I was the finished-second-place werewolf about to ask the vampire's wife to shack up and procreate. Nice. — Stephenie Meyer

Every objet in the world promises satisfaction, but it never gives satisfaction -it only promises. — Krishnananda Saraswati

No one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does. — Gene Stratton-Porter

Having the option to be able to have a career and feel good about yourself as an individual and still be a great mother is definitely a possibility. — Andie MacDowell