Quotes About Being Small Minded

#1. We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.

Bartlett Sher

#2. If I don't like seeing myself on the screen, I think when I start seeing that, that's when I think I'll stop.

Charlize Theron

#3. To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy.

Aldous Huxley

#4. I prefer thought to action, an idea to a transaction, contemplation to activity.

Honore De Balzac

#5. I don't like crowds because I am small and fear being trampled. My ideal night out is a dinner party in my backyard with a group of like-minded friends whom I boss around in a gentle and loving way.

Amy Poehler

#6. When you are stuck in a group of people who merely trade turns at talking about themselves instead of actually conversing, it could be a matter of their not really knowing how to converse as opposed to being too small-minded or excessively Facebooked.

Carolyn Hax

#7. God has revealed Himself in the Book called the Bible.

Billy Graham

#8. There was hell in her eyes! She was worn and jaded Her soul is at war with the life she has led. As I looked on that face so strangely faded I wonder God did not strike me dead ...

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#9. He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her.

Alice Hoffman

#10. My idle curiosity might lead to something more official, if the lieutenant feels his work is being hindered by an officious, small-minded, self-important bureaucrat. Not you, of course. I speak in general terms only.

Douglas Preston

#11. I really prefer acting in the theater the most. In some ways TV is closer to that because there's more of a regularity to the schedule. You have to finish an episode by a certain day. Movies can just go on interminably.

Mary-Louise Parker

#12. That's all it took to solve problems - just sense.

Gary Paulsen