Top 98 Big World Small World Quotes
#1. For me, the idea of living small has always involved being curious - taking a look at how my day-to-day is connected to the larger world around me, and to the delicate universe that sits between my ears and in my small body.
Dee Williams
#2. The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed
Mahatma Gandhi
#3. The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
Rupert Murdoch
#4. Over and over again, I'm trying to express or communicate these big and small struggles to the world, and really to myself.
Mike Mills
#5. The moments that we have with friends and family, the chances that we have to make a big difference in the world or even to make a small difference to the ones we love, all those wonderful chances that life gives us, life also takes away. It can happen fast and a whole lot sooner than you think.
Larry Page
#6. To sit on the front steps - whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city - and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.
Harvey Milk
#7. Wild is head back hollering at the sky, a moment that contains the full world. Wild is not tame, not bound, not constrained, constricted, condensed. Wildness is big or it is small, but it is open - open mouth, season, door, heart.
Christine Byl
#8. To enjoy the beauty of love, be a big person in this small world.
Debasish Mridha
#9. we live in a twisted world where everything, both big and small, is subject to surveillance, and where anything worth money will always be exploited.
David Lagercrantz
#10. You are on your own in a big world, in which you are one of many nations, some small, some medium sized, some large. You are nobody's boss and nobody is your boss.
Eric Williams
#11. The Need to Read
"Reading books remains one of the best ways to engage with the world, become a better person and understand life's questions, big and small.
Will Schwalbe
#12. I'm only going say this - love is a wild creature that cannot
be tamed. It's unconditional. And although it sometimes makes you
feel like one small person against this big old world, you must remember
you are the world to one particular person. - Astral
Candace Knoebel
#13. Hmm," he said. "Like the world is big again. No. Not again. Like I only thought it had gotten small while I was inside, but now I see it was big the whole time, just waiting out there. Waiting for me to come back.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#14. I was momentarily overwhelmed by the magnitude of the break I had made with my own history. The world was too big, I was too small; I couldn't contain so many contradictions.
G. Willow Wilson
#15. We tend to take whatever's worked in our particular set of circumstances (big family, small family, AP, Ezzo, home school, public school) and project that upon everyone else in the world as the ideal.
Rachel Held Evans
#16. It may be only small injustice that the child can be exposed to; but the child is small, and its world is small, and its rocking-horse stands as many hands high, according to scale, as a big-boned Irish hunter.
Charles Dickens
#17. Poor old Germany. Too big for Europe, too small for the world
Henry Kissinger
#18. The world is both big and small at the same time. So you really do need to know TV, film and theater. Everyone is kind of moving through all different mediums. So I think it's important to be able to do those things.
Julie Halston
#19. In the end it is all about loving your family. For one the family can be as small as single person or as big as whole world.
Pratik Akkawar
#20. So much water. It just went on and on and on, a sight that squeezed the soul. He felt so damn small out here. And that felt good. Maybe that was strange, but it felt good. He was insignificant. The world was too big to care about his decisions. There was no weight here, no burden.
Michael Koryta
#21. Finance went from being a small business, effectively, to being a big business. In part, that's the growth of the world's wealth. That's called savings.
Jamie Dimon
#22. If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#23. Visualize what you want out of life and think big. Don't feel undeserving. We're all deserving of living our dreams - some of us realize it and some don't. You're not doing anyone any favors by living small. Embrace these truths and step up. The world is waiting.
Jillian Michaels
#24. Those people work more wisely who seek to achieve good in their own small corner of the world ... than those who are forever thinking that life is in vain, unless one can. do big things.
Herbert Butterfield
#25. A good way to take a baby step into the world of animal rights is to make a list of small things you can do to help your issue and work your way up to the big things. Make a promise to do one thing on your list each month.
Jenna Morasca
#26. 'I'll sit on him,' Otis says and laughs like it's the funniest thing in the world. He twirls a small ball of fire in one hand and a Desert Eagle .50 Caliber in the other. If Seven didn't know him, he'd probably be running away as fast as he could. It's a big gun.
T.J. Klune
#27. Caring for small things had to start with caring for big things, and maybe the world wasn't big enough.
Terry Pratchett
#28. The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want
F Scott Fitzgerald
#29. Like all creatures, humans have made their way in the world by trial and error. Unlike other creatures we have a presence so colossal that error is a luxury we can no longer afford. The world has grown too small to forgive us any big mistakes.
Ronald Wright
#30. All he knew was that you couldn't hope to try for the big stuff, like world peace and happiness, but you might just about be able to achieve some tiny deed that'd make the world, in a small way, a better place. Like shooting someone.
Terry Pratchett
#31. Most people don't leave their mark on the world through big miracles. Some do," she added quickly. "But sometimes the biggest impact is made by a series of small, quiet things.
Richelle Mead
#32. Even the smallest landscape can offer pride of ownership not only to its inhabitants but to its neighbors. The world delights in a garden ... Creating any garden, big or small, is, in the end, all about joy.
Julie Moir Messervy
#33. I started in the theater world in New York City - and indie films - and I love the feeling of your head coming together and trying to tell a simple story, a small story, and just getting that vibe of storytelling without all the craziness of big budget.
Andre Royo
#34. So many young people feel powerless. We live in a world where it feels like it's so big and yet so small, and that your contribution really doesn't matter.
Lorraine Toussaint
#35. Inevitably we make a small world in the midst of a big one. For a small world is all we know how to make.'p46
Rose Tremain
#36. Just about anybody is a big girl in a small world but you gotta believe it on the inside, that you can be bigger than the rest of it.
Lizzo
#37. How small life is here
and how big nothingness.
The sky, tired of light,
has given everything to the snow.
The two trees bow
their heads to each other.
Clouds cross the world's
silence in a circle dance
Robert Walser
#38. Baby," she says in a harsh whisper, "in this world, lots of people will try to grind you down. They need you to be small so they can be big. You let them think whatever they want, but you make sure you get yours. You get yours.
Holly Black
#39. Big thoughts are fun to romanticize, but it's many small insights coming together that bring big ideas into the world.
Scott Berkun
#40. Boro-babu, the world does not change, you destroy yourself trying to change it, but it remains as it is. The world is very big, and we are very small. Why cause people who love you to go through such misery because of it?
Neel Mukherjee
#41. A note can be as small as a pin or as big as the world, it depends on your imagination.
Thelonious Monk
#42. Inside the big world that you cannot control, you have the small world of you that you can control. In that small world, if you look, you can see whether to go this way toward good, or the other way toward bad.
Roland Merullo
#43. Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need air. She used to say that if during one single day, from dawn to dusk, we could see the naked reality of the world, and of ourselves, we would either take our own lives or lose our minds.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#44. China has always maintained that all countries, big or small, rich or poor, strong or weak, are equal members of the international community and they should stand and speak in the world as such.
Li Peng
#45. Strange, isn't it,' mused Glokta as he watched him struggle for air. 'Big men, small men, thin men, fat men, clever men, stupid men, they all respond the same to a fist in the guts. One minute you think you're the most powerful man in the world. The next you can't even breathe by yourself.
Joe Abercrombie
#46. God is so big He can cover the whole world with His love, and so small He can curl up inside your heart.
June Masters Bacher
#47. Well, normally I'm against big things. I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things. Too many things can go wrong when they get big. - Pete Seeger (on how he felt about attending his big 90th birthday bash last year)
Pete Seeger
#48. People will often take an interesting experimental study which has been done in the world, perhaps at small scale, and then it's touted as some big solution.
Sendhil Mullainathan
#49. Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.
Jack Ma
#50. When I look at small things, I think I shall go on living: drops of rain, leather gloves shrunk by being wet ... When I look at something too big, I want to die: the Diet Building, or a map of the world ...
Kobo Abe
#51. Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in the world. Kindness, can change the lives of people.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#52. We have to challenge ourselves and be innovative so as to change the world. Get to this level of thinking. No small dreams, do big things!
Chris Oyakhilome
#53. Lord, I feel so small sometimes in this great big old world.
Yeah, I know there are more important things.
But don't forget to remember me.
Carrie Underwood
#54. India is the world's most youthful nation. A nation with such youth power cannot dream small. We cannot commit this crime. We should dream big, we should enable the youth to dream big and we should give them an opportunity to realize their dreams
Narendra Modi
#55. If you think small, your world will be small. If you think big, your world will be big.
Paulo Coelho
#56. Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, a small wrong may be a big right.
David Mitchell
#57. I lied, yes, but that doesn't make me a liar. Lying's wrong, but when the world spins backwards, small wrong may be a big right.
David Mitchell
#58. The world is big in some ways, and so small in others.
Ashly Lorenzana
#59. A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place to inhabit. So, don't be afraid to take a stand .
Ankita Singhal
#60. Real life ... it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.
Bentley Little
#62. I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
Marilyn Monroe
#63. Big fish eats small fish; oceans need revolution! Big man beats little man; world needs revolution! Big galaxies swallow little galaxies; universe needs revolution! Anything which is not ethical needs a strong revolution!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. The world is so big and words are so small!
Marty Rubin
#65. 'it's not that you are too small, my little chick,but rather that the world is too big.
Melanie Benjamin
#66. Every time I rap about being a big girl in a small world, it's doing a couple things: it's empowering my self-awareness, my body image, and it's also making the statement that we are all bigger than this; we're a part of something bigger than this, and we should live in each moment knowing that.
Lizzo
#67. He also had his proof that bureaucracy made small problems into big problems. India convinced Dad that Britain, which he called socialist England, had delayed the Allied victory in World War II by an entire year.
Claire Conner
#68. So on we tramped, three small dots on a big mountain, mere specks, beings of no importance. In creating this world, God showed that he was a great mathematician; but in creating man, he got his algebra wrong. Puffed up with self-importance, we are in fact the most dispensable of all his creatures.
Ruskin Bond
#69. Love is a big and wonderful idea, but life is made up of small things. As a kid, you have nothing to do with the way the world is run; you just have to hurry to catch up with it.
Heather O'Neill
#70. Oprah Winfrey's global influence is unparalleled. Not only has her generosity and firm belief that education is the key to a better life benefited countless women and children around the world, but her example has also inspired millions of people to give back in ways big and small.
Eli Broad
#71. People tend to think that big things only happen to big people ... I think that is not true. The small decisions we make every day define who we are and define the world around us ... But I bet to you there is a decision every day in your life where you affect somebody else.
Guillermo Del Toro
#72. The more you get set into your own world, the smaller your world becomes.
J.R. Rim
#73. Everything in the world starts small and then becomes bigger - except bad things. They start big, and then get smaller.
Warren St. John
#74. There is a big, beautiful world that could be destroyed by selfishness and foolishness. We musicians have it within our power to help save it. In a small way, every single one of us counts.
Pete Seeger
#75. By early 1943, the Pentagon was complete-a building big enough to house forty thousand people and all their accoutrements, the largest building in the world, conceived, funded, designed and constructed in a little more than a year. And on the day it was finished, it was already too small.
David Brinkley
#76. The world of entertainment is built for big money. It's not built for small-scale projects that sustain themselves.
Chris Gethard
#77. No matter our size or shape, everyone deserves a safe place in this world." ~ from BIG SMALL DOG, a children's story about overcoming bullying and adversity, and discovering unity and friendship.
Suzanne V. Marshall
#78. Explore often. Only when you will know how small you are and how big the world is.
Pradeepa Pandiyan
#79. It was all about size now: the big ran the world on the sweat of the small, and if the big faltered for any reason, the small were the first to go.
Michael Koryta
#80. Every good operative knows that the world is small, but the planet is big.
Ally Carter
#81. My daughter and I pay attention. We know what the world wants from us. We know we must decide whether to stay small, quiet, and uncomplicated or allow ourselves to grow as big, loud, and complex as we were made to be. Every girl must decide whether to be true to herself or true to the world.
Glennon Doyle Melton
#82. Detroit is big enough to matter in the world and small enough for you to matter in it.
Jeanette Pierce
#83. It's a small world, but we all run in big circles.
Sasha Azevedo
#84. You see, the world is as big as an elephant or small as a grain of sand, depending on you. You can let it stomp you, gore you, swallow you up. Or you can let it slip into your shell and turn into a pearl." -- Benjamin East
Jonathan Freedman
#85. It's always been a lot of fun for me, just to be in films that people see and they connect to, big or small. The big ones tend to reach a wider audience, so it's exciting to feel like you've got fans in countries, all over the world, who are watching what you're doing. That's really great!
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#86. I like the world, but I feel very, very Italian. I love the small parts of my country: Tuscany, Capri in the winter. I don't like big towns.
Luca Cordero Di Montezemolo
#87. My heart is so small it's almost invisible. How can You place such big sorrows in it? "Look," He answered, "your eyes are even smaller, yet they behold the world.
Rumi
#88. You may live in an unknown small village, but if you have big ideas, the world will come and find you!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe, and the universe is connected to me.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#90. What?! I'm not small! It's the world that's too big!!
Hiromu Arakawa
#91. For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.
Rebecca Solnit
#92. The world is small, baby. But love is large. Big enough that coincidence occasionally rubs elbows with opportunity.
Max Monroe
#93. I don't have to say to you or anyone in our WRESTLING community that we are a small world unto ourselves and there is often a big difference in how much we love and understand each other and how little we're understood or appreciated by people who spend their weekends watching basketball.
John Irving
#94. I was the one small brunete among tall blondes. You only get one body, might as well love it. Nothing is the end of the world. Flash forward a year and ask, "Is this really going to be that big of a deal? In the long run, it's really not".
Lucy Hale
#95. In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.
Dan Ariely
#96. The world's nothing but a mean bully, that's a fact. Even when you've big misfortunes threatening to drop on your head, small ones still take every chance to prick your toes.
George R R Martin
#97. In the new world, it is not the big fish which eats the small fish, it's the fast fish which eats the slow fish,
Klaus Schwab
#98. And that, quite simply, is the issue. We live in a finite world with finite resources. Although it may sometimes seem quite big, earth is really very small - a tiny blue and green oasis of life in a cold universe.
David Suzuki
