Comparatively Small Quotes

#1. A great many men
some comparatively small men now
if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#2. Ever since Barry's funeral, Gavin had dwelled, with a sense of deep inadequacy, on the comparatively small gap that he was sure he would leave behind in his community, should he die.

J.K. Rowling

#3. When a coil is operated with currents of very high frequency, beautiful brush effects may be produced, even if the coil be of comparatively small dimensions. The experimenter may vary them in many ways, and, if it were nothing else, they afford a pleasing sight.

Nikola Tesla

#4. Reddit, which calls itself 'The Front Page of the Internet,' is more influential in shaping Internet culture than its comparatively small reach would lead you to believe.

Ethan Zuckerman

#5. Think of the magic of the foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.

Martha Graham

#6. Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

Ezra Pound

#7. I've always hated rejection; I only want to go out there when I know I've got it right.

George Benson

#8. To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so that a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself.

Pope Leo XIII

#9. To General McChrystal, those men on his team are his family. You know, these guys, they would do anything. They would die for each other.

Michael Hastings

#10. In buying Fairtrade products, you're at best giving very small amounts of money to people in comparatively well-off countries. You'd do considerably more good by buying cheaper goods and donating the money you save to one of the cost-effective charities mentioned in the previous chapter.

William MacAskill

#11. Holyfield is nothing but class, and I think he's a breath of fresh air for the sport.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#12. Part of the problem with the discovery of the so-called breast-cancer genes was that physicians wrongly told women that had the genetic changes associated with the genes that they had a 99% chance of getting breast cancer. Turns out all women that have these genetic changes don't get breast cancer.

Craig Venter

#13. We're not Lormerians, with their temples and their living goddesses, and their creepy royal family. We're people of science, and reason.

Melinda Salisbury

#14. If I did not have for him the warm affection a son feels toward a less austere and preoccupied father, I at least had an immense respect for him, and a great admiration.

Lincoln Ellsworth

#15. Nature: She pardons no mistakes. Her yea is yea, and her nay, nay.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live.

Patrick Geddes

#17. But for the most part, people - of the right kind - are good. For them I put on my corset of cheerfulness, a solid serviceable garment. It holds in the bulgings and oozings of emotion, and soon I find they are, temporarily, stilled.

Anna Lyndsey

#18. Growing up, I always wanted to always be something new. I thought if I was an actress, I would have a chance at doing it all. What's incredible about this profession is every role you play; you learn a different skill set. That really appealed to me.

Ashley Bell

#19. Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness.

Dalai Lama

#20. Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

#21. How did Rue end up on that stage with nothing but the wind offering to take her place?

Suzanne Collins