Small Quotes

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love.

~ Stendhal

For African societies, no issue looms larger than employment. Only vibrant entrepreneurship and thriving small businesses can hope to provide the millions of jobs that are needed.

~ Richard Attias

I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can.

~ Danny Glover

My hope for my children must be that they respond to the still, small voice of God in their own hearts.

~ Andrew Young

Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges,' which require global solidarity.

~ Ban Ki-Moon

From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow.

~ Aeschylus

Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

My greatest mistake is that my dreams were too small.

~ Shimon Peres

My dreams were always small and puny. All I ever needed was a little house with a little picket fence by the sea. Little did I know that I would live in Malacanang Palace for 20 years and visit all the major palaces of mankind. And then also meet ordinary citizens and the leaders of superpowers.

~ Imelda Marcos

Newspaper people, once celebrated as founts of ribald humor and uncouth fun, have of late lost all their gaiety, and small wonder.

~ Russell Baker

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.

~ Richard Branson

However much we may sympathize with a small nation confronted by a big and powerful neighbours, we cannot in all circumstances undertake to involve the whole British Empire in a war simply on her account.

~ Neville Chamberlain

War is just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the expense of the masses.

~ Smedley Butler

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

~ Hannah Arendt

People have to realize that dieting is not a sprint, it's a marathon. If you celebrate the small victories, you will eventually win the war.

~ Ian K. Smith

As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.

~ John Boyd Orr

Bare hands grip success better than kid gloves. Be thorough in all things, no matter how small or distasteful! The man who counts his hours and kicks about his salary is a self-elected failure.

~ Charles M. Schwab

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

~ Carl Sagan

Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard.

~ Sarah Clarke

Pluto is still active four and a half billion years into its history. It was expected that small planets like Pluto would cool off long ago and not still be showing geological activity. Pluto is, in fact, showing numerous examples of geological activity on a massive scale across the planet.

~ Alan Stern

London Fashion Week isn't the most organised, but I don't mind that. It's such an exciting place - it's small and cool.

~ Carine Roitfeld

For a few months when I was about 17, I smoked a small cigar because I thought it looked cool and it would get me the girls. It didn't.

~ Jonathan Dimbleby

It doesn't sound that cool to say it, but I still get nervous for any show. But it's different degrees - playing a small basement of a club versus playing a festival like Firefly or Bonnaroo. The feeling is, 'Crap, I'm about to be blasted in the face,' and once you get started, then it's like, 'OK, I've done this before. I know what I'm doing.'

~ Josh Dun

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

~ Emma Thompson

The thing I've come to learn is that what's great about small independent films is the intimacy and the communication that occurs when you're making them.

~ Guy Pearce

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago.

~ John Boyd Orr

In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point.

~ August Krogh

In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.

~ Sam Hunt

I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.

~ Rachel Platten

In any small town, sports are really important to the high school, and I wasn't very good at sports.

~ Martina Mcbride

That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

~ Neil Armstrong

A lot of the moves I make originate from futsal. It's played in a very small space, and the ball control is different in futsal. And to this day my ball control is pretty similar to a futsal player's control.

~ Ronaldinho

Profound subject matter can be encompassed in small space - for proof, look at any sonnet by Shakespeare!

~ Cynthia Ozick

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

~ Sylvia Plath

What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Once you've been in space, you appreciate how small and fragile the Earth is.

~ Valentina Tereshkova

A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.

~ Gloria Steinem

Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe.

~ Mae Jemison

I start from one point and go as far as possible. But, unfortunately, I never lose my way. I 'localize,' which is to say that I think always in a given space. I rarely think of the whole of a solo, and only very briefly. I always return to the small part of the solo that I was in the process of playing.

~ John Coltrane

My mother took my brother and I to a production of 'The Tempest', and it was in this very small - it could have been the basement of a church or a black box. The space was vast, but there were maybe 15 seats in the middle. Ariel came out wearing a nude sparkly thong and spike heels, and the muses had these gossamer see-through gowns on.

~ Phillipa Soo