Top 100 Little But Quotes
#1. I think when someone becomes an actor, people say, Aw, you could see it in him when he was little. But I think you can see that quality in every little kid.
Skeet Ulrich
#2. ... It would be hateful to refuse whatever she asks of me, one way or another, for she is so pure, so free of any earthly tie, and cares so little, but so marvelously, for life.
Andre Breton
#3. My dog knows very little, but what little he does know he knows extraordinarily well.
J.M. Barrie
#4. There have been women in the past far more daring than we would need to be now, who ventured all and gained a little, but survived after all.
Germaine Greer
#5. Jackson hesitated, licking a drop of whisky from his bottom lip with his tongue.
Mollie's stomach tightened a little, but she told herself that it hadn't. It mostly worked - she'd gotten darn good at telling her body that it had absolutely no response to Jackson Burke.
Lauren Layne
#6. The truth is, when you have little to do, you do very little. But when you have much to do, you do much. So it should make sense that by taking on more than you can handle, you accomplish more than you ever dreamed you could. And so it is.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#7. Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.
Ellen G. White
#8. Reef changed what he knew about his Sense. They spoke little but understood each other perfectly.
Veronica Rossi
#10. If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.
Tony Robbins
#11. I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.
Robert Charles Wilson
#12. One never repents of having spoken too little but often of having spoken too much.
Philippe De Commines
#13. I've been singing ever since I was little, but I didn't start taking it seriously until I was about 15 or 16.
Conor Maynard
#14. I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything.
Kids just have an easier time with words.
Brian K. Vaughan
#15. There may be beings, thinking beings, near or surrounding us, which we do not perceive, which we cannot imagine. We know very little; but, in my opinion, we know enough to hope for the immortality, the individual immortality, of the better part of man.
Humphry Davy
#16. I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it.
Maddie Ziegler
#17. Love is extravagant in the price it is willing to pay, the time it is willing to give, the hardships it is willing to endure, and the strength it is willing to spend. Love never thinks in terms of "how little," but always in terms of "how much." Love gives, love knows, and love lasts.
Joni Eareckson Tada
#18. I'm little but I'm old, he said.
Anonymous
#19. People are never satisfied. If they have a little, they want more. If they have a lot, they want still more. Once they have more, they wish they could be happy with little, but are incapable of making the slightest effort in that direction.
Paulo Coelho
#20. Little things are indeed little, but to be faithful in little things is a great thing.
Mother Teresa
#21. We rarely repent of speaking little, but often of speaking too much.
Jean De La Bruyere
#22. There is no man, though never so little, but sometimes he can hurt.
George Herbert
#23. I don't mind being ridiculed - well, I guess I would mind a little, but it would only last a few minutes - it's all very ephemeral; it doesn't really matter what people think of me.
Jonathan Ames
#24. Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.
Edward Bouverie Pusey
#26. To know means to know all. Not to know all means not to know. In order to know all, it is only necessary to know a little. But, in order to know this little, it is first necessary to know pretty much.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#27. From a Higher Point Everything Looks more Little, but Business we do on the Ground.
Jan Jansen
#28. Geopolitical and demographic forces are so rooted in the unchangeable that political action often generates little but noise.
Peter Zeihan
#29. I started acting when I was about nine. I always wanted to get into acting since I was really little but my parents would never let me because they'd heard all the bad stuff about being in the business as a young actor and stuff like that.
Josh Hutcherson
#30. It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
Seneca The Younger
#32. Dance comes naturally to us when we're little but fades when we get older. Too many people let the stresses of life get them wound up. I think there's something to be said for cutting loose and having a good time. And hey, people even danced in Bible days.
Janice Thompson
#33. He who leaves school, knowing little, but with a longing for knowledge, will go farther than one who quits, knowing many things, but not caring to learn more.
John Lancaster Spalding
#34. Max said little. His essential quality was always to say little, but by powerful empathy for writers and for books to draw out of them what they had it in them to say and to write.
A. Scott Berg
#35. If one takes his studies by heaps at a time, he will benefit little, but if one gathers knowledge little by little he will gain much.
H.W. Charles
#36. I used to think that it was better to have too much than too little, but now I think if the too much was never supposed to be yours, you should just take what is yours and give the rest back.
Cecelia Ahern
#37. Ours should be the love that asks not 'how little?' but, 'how much?' The love that delights to pour out everything upon the feet of our Beloved.
Amy Carmichael
#38. Intelligence, adaptability and talent. And by talent I mean the capacity for hard work. Lots of girls come here with little but good looks. Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.
Ginger Rogers
#39. I think there are always people that you meet in your life that scare you a little, but not because of the terror in their eyes so much as their unpredictability.
Joshua Sasse
#40. I'm really a pussycat and this [bad-boy] image has been totally overblown for 30 years. Sure, I used to rumble a little but I don't do that stuff anymore. I'm an old man now. When you reach your 50s, you realise that if you don't mellow, you won't last.
George C. Scott
#41. A woman's flattery may inflate a man's head a little; but her criticism goes straight to his heart, and contracts it so that it can never again hold quite as much love for her.
Helen Rowland
#42. We had little but we didn't know we had little. It seemed to us that we had much and we were very content.
Aleksandra Layland
#43. Security was now a thing of the past though it took a conscious effort to remember it; with no enemy in all the world there was little but the force of habit in it.
Nevil Shute
#44. It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless.
Gabrielle Zevin
#46. It's fogging a little, but I won't slip off and hide in it. No ... never again ...
Ken Kesey
#47. He'd been old, and I'd been little, but still, it seemed wrong that someone so comforting in his dailiness could simply stop existing.
Brenna Yovanoff
#48. She cried a little, but only inside, because long ago she had decided she didn't like crying because if you ever started to cry it seemed as if there was so much to cry about you almost couldn't stop, and she didn't like that at all.
William, Saroyan
#49. Kindly words, sympathizing attentions, watchfulness against wounding men's sensitiveness-these cost very little, but they are priceless in their value.
Frederick William Robertson
#50. My heart stumbled a little, but the tenderness in his voice kept me from falling.
Myra McEntire
#51. You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.
Stephan Pastis
#52. There are poor societies which have too little; but where is the rich society that says: 'Halt! We have enough'? There is none.
E.F. Schumacher
#53. Come over here and taste me, he says, his voice little but a seductive whisper.
Felicity Brandon
#54. Treat your enemies with courtesy, and you'll see how valuable it really is. It costs little but pays a nice dividend: those who honor are honored. Politeness and a sense of honor have this advantage: we bestow them on others without losing a thing.
Baltasar Gracian
#55. If we wait for the governments, it'll be too little, too late; if we act as individuals, it'll be too little; but if we act as communities, it might just be enough, just in time.
Rob Hopkins
#56. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Seneca.
#57. In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.
Ford Madox Ford
#58. I actually wanted to be a police officer like my dad for the longest time, up until my sophomore year in high school when I started doing plays. I did plays when I was little, but in high school, I started getting into acting.
Chad Lindberg
#59. To leave positions of great responsibility and authority is to die a little, but the time comes when that must be faced.
Dean Acheson
#60. But each time he received an invitation from the Harvard Club to join ... he postponed his application for the time when he could do little but rest in the kind of comfortable chair that is to the end of life what a cradle is to the beginning. Pg 55
Mark Helprin
#61. I saw the first episode of "The Walking Dead," and that's all I've seen. I thought it was good. I used to love zombies when I was little, but I don't like them the way I used to. I'm not knocking the show.
James Patterson
#62. I have built little. But, I have built many castles in the air.
Frei Otto
#63. I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people's stories, we always end up telling our own.
Alejandro Zambra
#64. Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday; I was there for every major event.
Jeff Dunham
#65. The two ideas are antithetical. Insofar as photography is (or should be) about the world, the photographer counts for little, but insofar as it is the instrument of intrepid, questioning subjectivity, the photographer is all.
Susan Sontag
#66. Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
Iris Murdoch
#67. He said very little, but his eyes were eloquent; the clutch of his arms was eloquent. He was the playground of unspeakable emotions. These, you know, were real Magics.
H.G.Wells
#68. From beginning to end it's about keeping the energy and the intensity of the story and not doing too much and not doing too little, but just enough so people stay interested and stay involved in the characters.
Deborah Cox
#69. Life might be easier if you give in a little, but it's better if you hold onto something so hard you can't give it up.
Craig Silvey
#70. As I got into high school and after puberty, I was a little more inward. I was a real extrovert when I was little, but I don't know, I just got quieter ... With my friends, I was still an extrovert.
John Mulaney
#71. We have heard of many people who trusted God too little, but have you ever heard of anyone who trusted Him too much?
Hudson Taylor
#72. I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.
Stephen King
#73. Here is a truism. What you say about yourself matters very little, but what others say of you means the world.
Hugh Halter
#74. The wise know much, but pretend to know little; the ignorant know little, but pretend to know much; and the foolish know nothing, but pretend to know all.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#75. In the eighth grade I found I had a voice for opera, so I followed that path a little, but my impulse has always been an actor. I have always liked cinema, and let's face it, opera singers are just bad actors! I didn't want to translate myself in that direction.
Robert Davi
#77. What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.
G.I. Gurdjieff
#78. The books that prove most agreeable, grateful, and companionable, are those we pick up by chance here and there; those which seem put into our hands by Providence; those which pretend to little, but abound by much.
Herman Melville
#79. The thanks of a weak one are but of little value," he muttered, "but you have them, for truly, in this past week, little but scraps have come my way- and for all my body is small, yet is my appetite unseemly great.
Isaac Asimov
#80. My mother said I broke her heart ... but it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it's all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us ... but within that inch we are free.
Alan Moore
#81. The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65)
Stephen Batchelor
#82. And Gabriel leans closer and closer and, very slowly and gently, he kisses me, on the lips, with infinite tenderness, so that our skin is barely touching. I pull away a little but he stays close to me.
"Don't hate yourself. Don't hate any bit of yourself.
Sally Green
#83. You would think having your arse constantly kissed would be enjoyable, even just a little. But when it's a nest of snakes trying to latch on - offering a rim job with their flicking, forked tongues - it's revolting.
Emma Chase
#84. When you're making records, you develop, and so you hear the things you want to move away from. It stings a little, but you know, you gotta own it too. You've got to just go, "You know, I wasn't afraid to learn in front of people, so I give myself a little credit for not being afraid of anything."
Neko Case
#85. We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?
Frank Pittman
#86. Certain, when I was born, so long ago, Death drew the tap of life and let it flow; And ever since the tap has done its task, And now there's little but an empty cask.
Geoffrey Chaucer
#87. 'The Iliad' is about a war 1,200 years ago that solved nothing and achieved nothing. Most of our wars achieve very little. But whatever agenda I have gets buried in a work this great. If you're being honest, you realize that, as an artist, you're not a policy maker.
Denis O'Hare
#89. When I was just beginning to have "celebrity" status, I would think I was a star and rolled with it a little but that was then.
Jai Uttal
#90. I did have a dog for a few years when I was little, but then just really had cats until I was about 21.
Eric Roberts
#91. She had touched life, played with it a little, but it is a slippery bugger, and finally we must close the door, and leave it behind. A
Rachel Joyce
#92. He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.
Saint Augustine
#93. In those days, he said the following: I can only give you a little; but that little, I give to you with love.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#94. My name is Tess Little. But everyone calls me Red.
Kate SeRine
#95. What we know here is very little, but what we are ignorant of is immense.
Pierre Laplace
#96. In the big scheme, it means little. But in our little scheme, it's big.
Jeremy Morong
#97. Calculus required continuity, and continuity was supposed to require the infinitely little; but nobody could discover what the infinitely little might be.
Bertrand Russell
#98. With begging and scrambling we find very little, but with being true to ourselves we find a great deal more.
Rabindranath Tagore
#99. [W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#100. If a Jew is fascinated by Christians it is not because of their virtues, which he values little, but because they represent anonymity, humanity without race.
Jean-Paul Sartre
