Quotes & Sayings About Littles

The worst kind of job to have is a job with lots of responsibility and very little power. — E. J. Dionne

Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead. — Paul Eldridge

I'll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness. — Matt Damon

If I've learned anything in my 30s, it's about holding back a little bit. — Sandra Bernhard

Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee. — Blaise Pascal

L'homme qui a un peu use ses e motions est plus presse de plaire que d'aimer. The person who has used his emotions even a little is more anxious to please than to love. — Sydney Samuelson

I can't imagine having cosmetic surgery because I have my values and little family who makes me feel incredibly accepted but you never know. — Izabella Scorupco

Music taught me how to always be patient and focused, and to train the little concentration in myself. — Hiromi

Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties
one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened. — Virginia Woolf

It seems to me that actual democracy is where all of us get to participate and it's not just a sort of a blunt little dry hump in a ballot box, but an actual penetrative process. — Russell Brand

The moods of sadness that come over anyone who takes up art ... these dismal moods have very little compensation. — Edgar Degas

How do you deal with meditating when you stop breathing? The trick is to meditate just a little higher and you won't even know that you're not breathing. — Frederick Lenz

The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Though colour may appear at first a part of painting merely mechanical, yet it still has its rules, and those grounded upon that presiding principle which regulates both the great and the little in the study of a painter. — Joshua Reynolds

A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others. — Ignatius Of Loyola

It is only a little planet, but how beautiful it is. — Robinson Jeffers

Agnostic for me would be trying to weasel out and sound a little nicer than I am about this. — Richard P. Feynman

My salvation has very little to do with anything that I have done ... Jesus will go to any lengths to draw us to himself. — Rich Mullins

You can go to India and you can see gurus go into samadhi. But when they come out of samadhi, they're nasty. They're egocentric. They don't have a deep regard or understanding of what life is. It's just a little trick they can do, a one-trick pony. — Frederick Lenz

Good readers make much out of little. — Irving Howe

Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

It's always the little decisions that have the biggest impact. — Mark Cuban

Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something ... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously. — Salvador Dali

The universe will fill your cup ... if you carry a big cup, a little cup, or a thimble! — Sonia Choquette

The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting. — Zig Ziglar

He who attempts to do all will waste his life in doing little. — Samuel Johnson

I always was a performer, from the time I was little. It was always a natural place for me to be. — Billy Crystal

To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage. — James Randi

A little while alone in your room
will prove more valuable than anything else
that could ever be given you. — Rumi

If you think little about yourself, you will have rest wherever you reside. — Poemen

I'm no expert in vibrators, but I was surprised to learn that one could fit in that little box. — Henry Blodget

Joy is the best makeup. But a little lipstick is a close runner-up. — Anne Lamott

Ever since I was a little kid I've been so glad to be from America and so glad to live here. — Taylor Swift

Peacock bass like to hide at ambush points, away from the strong canal currents. If you fish early and know those peacock hangouts, you will have little or no trouble catching peacocks on lures and live bait. — Mark Hall

It is better to practice a little than talk a lot. — Muso Soseki

Make the short story tremendously succinct - with a very short pulse or rhythm - and the closest selection of detail - in other words summarise intensely and deeply and keep down the lateral development. It should be a little gem of bright, quick, vivid form — Henry James

Life is vital and we should relax a little and enjoy it as we only have one life as far as I'm aware. — Murray Mexted

This is just one little lifetime in a succession of lifetimes. — Frederick Lenz

If we just give God the little that we have, we can trust Him to make it go around. — Gloria Gaither

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible. — Charles Dickens

Being loved by all is little fun Unless you're also loved by one. — Robert Breault

Veronica solves little puzzles because she, like all of us, cannot unravel the bigger ones. — Joss Whedon

When many little people in many little places do many little things, then the whole world changes. — Michael Franti

My period as a young teenager when you really listen to music so you can get understand a little bit more about what the music is was, say, 1965 to 1968. I was just lucky to be in those times. — Stanley Kubrick

As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed. — Glenn Reynolds

Somethings wrong with us for us to value ourselves so little. — Beth Moore

I think ... that things are a little bit up for grabs right now ... — John Podesta

You need to have a lot of close family around you, a lot of friends to keep you honest. Take your time, take a year and just slow everything down a little bit. Get away from the success part, stay with yourself. Go off on a beach somewhere or do something to keep yourself aligned right. — George Lucas

The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you. — Donald Trump

The love of popularity seems little else than the love of being beloved; and is only blamable when a person aims at the affections of a people by means in appearance honest, but in their end pernicious and destructive. — William Shenstone

In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for 'continuous transfer of energy'). In all other respects little change was necessary in Darwin's theory ... — Erwin Schrodinger

One always has to spoil a picture a little bit, in order to finish it. — Eugene Delacroix

Where are you, my little object of art? I am here to collect you. — Pepe

Reply implicitly upon the old, old gospel. You need no other nets when you fish for men; those your Master has given you are strong enough to hold the little ones. Spread these nets and no others, and you need not fear the fulfillment of His word, 'I will make you fishers of men.' — Charles Spurgeon

The greatest opportunity of our lives is to wake ourselves up and get going. There is so much to be done and so little time to do it. We should impress ourselves with the seriousness of slothfulness. — Sterling W. Sill

The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man. — Sarah Orne Jewett

When I started in radio, I worked for free. I lived at the radio station. Then I worked for very little money. — Sean Hannity

Out of my own great woe I make my little songs. — Heinrich Heine

Forget that I'm a woman. Forget the accusations that I am a Right Winger demanding privilege - I had precious little privilege in my early years. — Margaret Thatcher

There is no such thing as defeat except when it comes from within. As long as a person doesn't admit he is defeated, he is not defeated-he's just a little behind and isn't through fighting. — Darrell Royal

When you get a man, you have to nurture him. Treat him like a king. If you put that little work in in the beginning, it pays off. — Tameka Cottle

Humor is important in everything. Dress with a little humor and you can go a long way. — Iris Apfel

If you will take my advice you will think little of Socrates, and a great deal more of truth. — Socrates

When you go through certain moments of your career and you're struggling, it just takes time. Time heals, when you're a little bit down. — Pete Sampras

I think the only thing for me, the tricky thing with the footnotes, is that they are an irritant, and they require a little extra work, and so they either have to be really germane or they have to be kind of fun to read. — David Foster Wallace

I'm always happy to pitch in and do something. Everybody needs to be laughing a little. — Chelsea Handler

[My mother] would have me smothered like the Princes in the Tower if I showed any inclination for being an artist. She thought all artists little better than lunatics. — Francis Meadow Sutcliffe

Little Boy's performance is authentic, natural, moving & inspiring. — Eva Longoria

Christ was a Jew, and God, he is supposed to have made the universe. That's a little far-fetched because if God made the world, who made God? — Julius Streicher

Fatherland without freedom and merit is a large word with little meaning. — Anders Chydenius

I am certainly interested in a tribunal in which, for having used my reason, I was deemed little less than a heretic. Who knows but men will reduce me from the profession of a philosopher to that of historian of the Inquisition! — Galileo Galilei

Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness. — George Will

Power to do good is the true and lawful act of aspiring; for good thoughts (though God accept them), yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground. — John Locke

While working among the little plants of the far places of the world we forget the narrowness of our own orbit. — Louise Wilder

If the prior distribution, at which I am frankly guessing, has little or no effect on the result, then why bother; and if it has a large effect, then since I do not know what I am doing how would I dare act on the conclusions drawn? — Richard Hamming

Come! let us take a moment's shelter under some roof
Look! there - before you, a little way off
There is an empty space
Between truth and falsehood. — Amrita Pritam

With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

If you are content with yourself, you'll stop taking those little steps forward and begin taking big steps backward. — Greg Maddux

No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less. — Charles Bukowski

We live like Heaven already, a little bit of Heaven right here and now! What could we have more?-Only more of the same and better! — David Berg

Do not speak of God much. After a very little conversation on the highest nature, thought deserts us and we run into formalism. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

You are allowed to lie a little, but you must never mislead. — Paul Halmos

It is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult. — Rebecca West

I always think of it you know building a business, building a brand, a friend of mine gave me a metaphor for it which I think is really true it's like building coral, you don't see it happening it's just little little little and when you step back you think wow. — Karen Walker

I sensed that women wanted to be a little different. My fluidity gave them a way of interpreting their bodies in a more personal, individual way. — Giorgio Armani

I'm sure many writers have these strange, tiny little habits. — Stephen Sondheim

We all come back to our little worlds. — Bradford Cox

I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink. — Georges Simenon

If you add a little to a little and do this often, soon the little will become great. — Hesiod

We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources ... there would be little wealth for anyone. — John Ruskin

Nor is it credible that any one should possess so little understanding as to desire the faith and yet be destitute of the most necessary faculty to enable him to receive it. — Pope Paul III

He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much. — George Herbert

Always carry with you a little reasonable doubt, should you meet someone who needs to be found innocent. — Robert Breault

It is a little ironic that one thing a babysitter should not do is sit on a baby. — Demetri Martin

If you have fairy blood, even in the tiniest degree, you must live close to Fairy Land, and eat a little fairy food, or else you will always be hungry. — Robert Moss

You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones. — Saint Augustine

The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending. — Solomon

I'm very active on Twitter and Instagram. I'm always posting pictures from set, and little clues and teasing people with fun things. It's awesome! — Tyler Posey

I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts — Christopher Lee

When you have a bad game the social network isn't exactly your best friend. People tend to go after you a little bit, but I don't let it bother me. — Eddie Lacy