Molehill Quotes

#1. I gave my word that this source would not be identified unless he changed his mind. He has not.

Bob Woodward

#2. The secret angels of God are only as alive as the marble angels of Michelangelo!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#3. Don't judge people because someone's molehill could be another person's mountain.

Uzoma Nnadi

#4. Making a ski resort out of a molehill is wonderful if you're a Smurf.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#5. He was, after all, the ultimate rebel
it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.

Jasper Fforde

#6. I think I've lost 3lbs - I'm very, very happy. I thought of it as work and a spa.

Joan Rivers

#7. If you embrace possibility thinking, your dreams will go from molehill to mountain size, and because you believe in possibilities, you put yourself in position to achieve them.

John C. Maxwell

#8. With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard.

Esa-Pekka Salonen

#9. The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

Al Neuharth

#10. I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them.

Mark Twain

#11. Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#12. Why don't you like the foods I like?" he asks sometimes. "Why don't you like the foods I make?" I answer.

Lydia Davis

#13. A mountain still in the distance can appear as a molehill.

Howard Fast

#14. In times like these," he would say, "everyone becomes a sort of intellectual, as matters so dire demand to be thought through. That's the glory of these times. They have woken us up.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#15. [Louis Armstrong is] the father of us all, regardless of style or how modern we get. His influence is inescapable. Some of the things he was doing in the 20's and 30's, people still haven't dealt with.

Nicholas Payton

#16. The classic Italian green sauce, salsa verde, is easy to make and especially nice in the spring when bunches of fresh herbs start appearing in the farmers market or in your garden.

Tom Douglas

#17. From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#18. The manager needs only a molehill to build a mountain, but the money-ger needs a full mountain to build another.

Agona Apell

#19. I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.

Zach Braff

#20. I'd learned very quickly that I could create a fair amount of chaos with very little effort. Some defense lawyers call it "making the State come off their mountain to fight on my molehill." I just called it fun.

Scott Pratt

#21. Because our brains make a mountain out of a molehill of uncertainty, we tend to prefer competitive risk because it feels more secure. But the empirical evidence says that market risk is less risky than competitive risk.

Whitney Johnson

#22. I often think that woman is more free in Islam than in Christianity. Woman is more protected by Islam than by the faith which preaches monogamy. In AI Quran the law about woman is juster and more liberal.

Annie Besant

#23. A molehill man is a pseudo-busy executive who comes to work at 9 AM and finds a molehill on his desk. He has until 5 PM to make this molehill into a mountain. An accomplished molehill man will often have his mountain finished before lunch.

Fred Allen

#24. Al Qaeda's vision of global jihad doesn't resonate in the rugged highlands and windswept deserts of southern Afghanistan. Instead, the major concern throughout much of the country is intensely local: personal safety.

Anand Gopal

#25. But it has also enabled me to find my feet as a lecturer and a reader of my own plays to audiences who like to hear them; and that experience of immediate appreciation gives greater pleasure and more stimulus towards further activity than even the most laudatory of reviews.

Laurence Housman

#26. Think about winning the day ... if you are worried about the mountain in the distance, you might trip over the molehill right in front of you.

Drew Brees