Top 100 One Small Quotes
#1. Moon-Watcher felt the first faint twinges of a new and potent emotion. It was a vague and diffuse sense of envy
of dissatisfaction with his life. He had no idea of its cause, still less of its cure; but discontent had come into his soul, and he had taken one small step toward humanity.
Arthur C. Clarke
#2. Stand still, close your eyes and listen; in the silence you can hear the cries of pain and low moans of anguish of animals waiting to die ... do everything you can even if today it is just one small thing. There are no excuses for inaction, despair, egotism, or petulance that matter to the animals.
Ashley Montagu
#3. From one small spark a bushfire grows.
Sellers of misery are our foes.
Merging ruthlessly tongues of flame.
Point your finger at those to blame.
Paul Anthony
#4. I've learned It's the important little baby steps, which teaches us, how to grow. Moving up just one small notch, will help us more, than we know.
Tom Baker
#5. Try to make others happy, and don't despair over all the evil in the world. Instead of cursing the dark, let us each light one small lamp.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#6. Dave's gently probing finger takes one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Cameron Vale
#7. In nearly everyone who had ever lived there was at least one small splinter of evil.
Lauren Groff
#8. As one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many, yea in some sort to our whole nation.
William Bradford
#9. That's one small step for a man ... but a really big step ... for a baby.
Harlowe Pilgrim
#10. It is better to light one small candle of gratitude than to curse the darkness.
Confucius
#11. Thirteen years, one night.
Nine months. One small baby will deliver true love.
I can't wait to see you.
Lori L. Otto
#12. Man lives in only one small room of the enormous house of his consciousness.
William James
#13. What is one small step I could take to improve my health (or relationships, or career, or any other area)?
Robert Maurer
#14. One small boy was all it took to upset the universe
James Miller
#15. The cause of all trouble, the root of all sorrow, the dread of every man lies in this one small word - sin. It has crippled the nature of man ... It has caused man to be caught in the devil's trap.
Billy Graham
#16. I don't think sexuality defines a person. It's one small part of who you are, in my view. You are many things, and I never felt that people were defined by their sexuality solely.
William Friedkin
#17. A film is one small voice among other large ones. The film is a tiny part of the discourse. You do what you can but under no illusions of what a film can do.
Ken Loach
#18. Nice people sometimes do terrible things because they don't want to do one small mean thing. It doesn't automatically make them a bad person forever.
Lucy Dillon
#19. One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn't fall apart.
Linda Poindexter
#20. One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.
Pam Brown
#21. Whatever comes, let's be content withal; Among God's blessings there is not one small.
Robert Herrick
#22. If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident. You have but a short time to live in this world.
Frederick Lenz
#23. If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.
Stephen Covey
#25. The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.
Pat Summitt
#26. She could count three vessels - one small, one medium and one large as in the Goldilocks story - and
Neil D'Silva
#27. One small step + desired behavior = high probability of further steps
Stephen Guise
#28. Jessie's fate was a complex tapestry of many choices and many circumstances, and Kera knew she had been only one small thread in the weave.
L.J. Sellers
#29. It is surely unreasonable to credit that only one small star in the immensity of the universe is capable of developing and supporting intelligent life. But we shall not get to them and they will not come to us.
P.D. James
#30. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step. One small step and then another. That's what it takes to raise a child, to get a degree, to write a book, to do whatever it is your heart desires.
Regina Brett
#31. But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.
Rachel Carson
#32. Do one small thing immediately - often this is all you need to do to get started.
Brian Tracy
#33. That's the way God works-one small key opens a big door.
Frank Marzullo
#34. It's mind-boggling, how one small choice causes a ripple effect throughout the rest of your life.
Monica Murphy
#35. Take a risk a day - one small or bold stroke that will make you feel great once you have done it.
Susan Jeffers
#36. From one small lie her dream had transformed into a hideous nightmare
Emma Calin
#37. I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.
Ellen Goodman
#38. In every universe, we play out different decisions we've made for whatever reason. What breaks one person at one time can make them strong at another. And one small variable can have devastating consequences. Timing is everything, kid.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#39. [T]he reason why Shakespeare and Pushkin were great writers was because from the time when they were boys they stood like policemen over their thoughts and didn't allow one small insincerity to creep in.
Michael D. O'Brien
#40. Try to find something that makes you happy. Your life is not going to get easier once Queen Levana is your wife. If you had even one small thing that brought you happiness, or hope that things could someday be better, then maybe that would be enough to sustain you.
Marissa Meyer
#41. People who felt scared or desperate enough could do almost anything, even things that are extremely out of their character to do; things that are not natural to them. When it came to the human condition, it only took one small spark to light an inferno.
J.M. Northup
#42. Can we not will ourselves to achieve the impossible? Can we not use the power of our life force to change something: one small thing, one insignificant moment, one breath, one gesture? Is there nothing we can do to change what is around us?
Garth Stein
#43. A security cam is one small part of a much larger universe of cams. The much larger effect, socially, politically and economically, is going to come from a much larger trend.
Bruce Sterling
#44. Oh these little rejections how they add up quickly, one small sideways look and I feel so ungood. Somewhere along the way I think I gave you the power to make me feel the way I thought only my father could.
Alanis Morissette
#45. She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.
Ann Brashares
#46. One small cloud, cast out by the herd, limps away to the west.
Colum McCann
#47. It seems impossible that she could have liked someone like Mitchell when there was someone like this guy in the world, someone tall and lanky, with tousled hair and startling green eyes and a speck of mustard on his chin, like the one small imperfection that makes the whole painting work somehow.
Jennifer E. Smith
#48. Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many ...
William Bradford
#49. Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.
Audrey Hepburn
#50. That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind
Neil Armstrong
#51. There should be a disconnect button you can push when someone leaves: you've fucked me over; therefore I no longer love you. I'm not asking for the button to be connected to an ejector seat that removes them from the universe, just one small button that removes them from your heart.
Cath Crowley
#52. If you focus on literature through only one small element of it, like the more scientific element of linguistics, then where is the joy that brought us literature in the first place, which is to have a story?
T.C. Boyle
#53. Procrastination is a common reaction to feeling overwhelmed or fear of failure. Instead of taking on too much at once and overwhelming yourself, break things down and take one small action step at a time.
Lauren Mackler
#54. You and I have spoken all these words, but for the way we have to go,words are no preparation. I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean
Rumi
#55. 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
#56. It's strange, isn't it? One small bit of information - a private relationship, something that happened a long time ago - and the whole story seems different.
Elise Broach
#57. Only one small, pale spot on her cheek was visible where her skin, free of blood, gleamed, as polished as bone.
Sanjida Kay
#58. She backed away, looking at him, his shirt hiked up, his crotch exposed. She could think only of a campfire, one small log, all of it doused in milk.
Dave Eggers
#59. The idea had always struck Shader as bizarre: entrusting the governance of a country to the whims of an uneducated mob. No sense in it. No continuity. Not to mention that a canny would-be tyrant could easily hoodwink the masses into electing him. It was one small step from freedom to dictatorship.
D.P. Prior
#60. Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.
A. Lee Martinez
#61. The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small yes at the center of a vast no.
Gore Vidal
#62. She wondered if she was going mad. It felt like a decision she could make. One small step over an invisible line and she could choose lunacy.
Liane Moriarty
#63. Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.
Guy Finley
#64. We are all dwellers on this one small earth; we live one life, die one death; we have the same difficulties to contend with; we ought in common to fight the foes of ignorance and wrong.
Charles Glover Barkla
#65. A Thaum is the basic unit of magical strength. It has been universally established as the amount of magic needed to create one small white pigeon or three normal-sized billiard balls.
Terry Pratchett
#66. A million million worlds that move in peace;A million mighty laws that never cease;And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds,Rich with eggs, slaves and store of millet-seeds.They sleep beneath the sodAnd trust in God.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#67. But here's the rub of addiction. By its nature, people afflicted are unable to do what, from the outside, appears to be a simple solution - don't drink. Don't use drugs. In exchange for that one small sacrifice, you will be given a gift that other terminally ill people would give anything for: life.
David Sheff
#68. Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.
Saint Augustine
#69. It's also worthy of mention that every pattern has at least one small bias, and one day it will tip itself over or fall from one page to another.
Markus Zusak
#70. Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.
Zhuangzi
#71. Big achievements come one small advantage at a time, one step at a time, one day at time.
Jim Rohn
#72. Seeing this gradation and diversity of structure in one small, intimately related group of birds, one might really fancy that from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends.
Charles Darwin
#73. The girls are all talking and laughing, trying to get pumped up and for just one small sliver of a moment, I stop. Taking it all in because this is something I've really missed over the last year. The comradery of a team. The sisterhood of hockey players. Girls who have your back.
Jennifer Sucevic
#74. There are cases where you design something that looks good on paper and there's only one small part of it that's fun. You have to focus on that and throw the rest away.
Brent Iverson
#75. In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
Xun Zi
#76. Who could be satisfied with seeking out the four corners of one small world, when there was the whole of time to be had?
Alexandra Bracken
#77. I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world
Sukarno
#78. In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone.
David Lynch
#79. The only thing separating us from that existence rather than the one we find ourselves in is one small decision. I make wrong decisions every day.
Elizabeth Finn
#80. Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day.
Dalai Lama
#81. Today I will do one small task that will contribute toward the achievement of a life goal.
Kitt Weagant
#82. One small action of love can do far, far more for a soul than all the most beautiful words in the world.
Eileen Caddy
#83. We're born into the world as just one small piece to the puzzle that makesup an entire life.
Colleen Hoover
#84. I asked for a sign that what I had done was necessary. Just one small sign. Nothing big. One small but incontestable sign. I opened my eyes. There was no sign. It doesn't work that way and never did.
Dean Koontz
#85. Resistance is first of all a matter of principle and a way to live, to make yourself one small republic of unconquered spirit. You hope for results, but you don't depend on them.
Rebecca Solnit
#86. Wish that there was someone I could explain this to. Someone who might understand what I'm feeling. And for one small second, I do imagine the person I could talk to, about finding this door, and losing it. He would understand. But that's one door that needs to stay shut.
Gayle Forman
#87. There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Robert Alden
#88. I could have been you, you could have been me. One small change that shapes your destiny.
Melissa Etheridge
#89. He read reports, examined evidence, and poured more reports up the chain than the Pentagon could read. Nothing short of a human sieve. But in the end he was just one small piece on this game board called war. End of story
Ted Dekker
#90. I will tell no one what I know of the two of you. But I would ask one small price for my silence. (Damien)
And that is? (Rowena)
If you still believe in God, then say a prayer for me. He turned a deaf ear to my pleas long ago. (Damien)
Kinley MacGregor
#91. Don't you wonder sometimes,' Ursula said. 'If just one small thing had been changed, in the past, I mean. If Hitler had died at birth, or if someone had kidnapped him as a baby and brought him up in
I don't know, say, a Quaker household
surely things would be different.
Kate Atkinson
#92. HELPED are those who find the courage to do at least one small thing each day to help the existence of another - plant, animal, river, or human being. They shall be joined by a multitude of the timid. H
Alice Walker
#93. When one writes "the last apple on the tree," or "the one small peach as pink as dawn," one is beginning to deal with particulars - to develop texture ...
Such texture is vital to all poetry. It is what makes the poem an experience, something much more than mere statement.
Mary Oliver
#94. What does 'stuck' mean?" "It means I should make some big decision, I should do some enormous thing. And I can't do anything. I can't stand my life, and I can't change it." "Maybe it's not an enormous thing," he says. "Maybe you have to do one small thing and then another small thing.
A.M. Homes
#95. Of one small circumstance that had occurred, he felt quite sure that Mr. Kennedy knew nothing.
Anthony Trollope
#96. ...the one small wisdom he has gained from his life is that, when flags start to wave, someone must always refuse to join in.
Steven Heighton
#97. All the dizzy and colossal things conceded depend upon one small thing withheld. All the wild and whirling things that are let loose depend upon one thing that is forbidden.
G.K. Chesterton
#98. Just one small thing had changed, such a small thing really. What difference could it make, the era in which we are born?
Andrew Sean Greer
#99. I look out of this window and I think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and birds and everything else and I'm part of it. I didn't ask to be put here, I've been lucky in finding myself here.
Morris West
#100. You know what an illusion is? On this planet, one small cloud has the ability to block the entire sun.
J.R. Rim
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