Top 100 Quotes About Littles
#1. The neo-hippie-dips, the sentimentality-crazed iguana anthropomorphizers, the Chicken Littles, the three-bong-hit William Blakes- thank God these people don't actually go outdoors much, or the environment would be even worse than it is already.
P. J. O'Rourke
#2. Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.
John Seely Hart
#3. Daddies don't leave their littles just because they've been naughty.
Renee Rose
#5. That's an awful lot of littles, don't you think?"
"Perhaps." He displayed his hand. "Big." He set hers next to his, so small and delicate contrasted with his thick, blunt fingers. Why did holding her fragile hand raise every protective instinct he had?
Cherise Sinclair
#6. The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.
William Matthews
#7. You'll see, you'll come to understand. These big things, these terrible things, are not the important ones. If they were, how could one go on living? No, it is the small, little things that make up a day, that bring fullness and happiness to a life.
Benedict Freedman
#8. The moment where I realized how little I actually was, was when Dave Bautista picked me off the ground and I still wasn't even at his pec yet. I was like, "Oh my God, this man is massive."
Katee Sackhoff
#9. We can offer up much in the large, but to make sacrifices in little things is what we are seldom equal to.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#10. I did listen to 1920s jazz or Al Johnson and a lot of early singers coming out of England. I would branch out a little bit to get a sense of the world that he might be coming into, in the '30s when jazz was changing.
Ed Speleers
#11. I love memoirs. They are probably my favorite literary form, along with biographies. The more confessional, the better. There is so, so, so little truth in the popular culture, and I am starved and grateful for any I can find.
Anne Lamott
#12. How happily some people would live if they troubled themselves as little about other people's business as about their own.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#13. I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.
William, Saroyan
#14. More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses
it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#15. Eloquence, when in its highest pitch, leaves little room for reason or reflection.
David Hume
#16. For all their strength, men were sometimes like little children.
Lawana Blackwell
#17. So much time is spent on belief. So little time is spent on love!
Akiane Kramarik
#19. It was kind of unexpected, to wake up one day and realize that the things that you've worked so hard to accomplish, you've accomplished in so little an amount of time.
Colton Haynes
#20. I suppose there is hardly any one in the civilized world - particularly of those who do just a little more every day than they really have strength to perform - who has not at some time regarded bed as a refuge.
J. E. Buckrose
#21. Well, you have children so you know: little children little troubles, big children, big troubles - it's a saying in Yiddish. Maybe the Chinese said it too.
Grace Paley
#22. Nothing ought more to humiliate men who have merited great praise than the care they still take to boast of little things.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#23. He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.
Albert Einstein
#24. Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
Lawrence Dale Bell
#25. Teddy Roosevelt supported a progressive income tax. If I am sitting pretty and you've got a waitress who is making minimum wage plus tips, and I can afford it and she can't, what's the big deal for me to say, 'I'm going to pay a little bit more'? That is neighborliness.
Barack Obama
#26. Do not act incautiously when confronting a little bald wrinkly smiling man!
Terry Pratchett
#27. They asked me to do a show, and I was planning on showing my figure paintings. But my friends told me I shouldn't - the paintings were good but a little old-fashioned. They said, "Why don't you show the other stuff?" I had also been making rather strange objects, more in the Freudian tradition.
Claes Oldenburg
#28. Vanity is so constantly solicitous of self, that even where its own claims are not interested, it indirectly seeks the aliment which it loves, by showing how little is deserved by others.
William Gilmore Simms
#29. I had this weird, nomadic little tent with a rug over it, like a booth where I'd sing the vocals.
Neneh Cherry
#30. The point here is ... to be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.
David Foster Wallace
#31. Christianity taught that men ought to be as chaste as pagans thought honest women ought to be; the contraceptive morality teaches that women need to be as little chaste as pagans thought men need be.
G. E. M. Anscombe
#32. Never be afraid to ask for too much when selling or offer too little when buying.
Warren Buffett
#33. Nothing like a little disaster for sorting things out.
David Hemmings
#34. I don't need someone to complete me, I need someone to make things a little bit better every now and again.
Jon Richardson
#35. A brand is a little different. Me, as Carrie the person, wanders around in sweatpants. And then, when I have to be Carrie Underwood, there is definitely a departure from your human side. It's good to make that separation from person to brand.
Carrie Underwood
#36. I'm a little bit too obsessed with the news. I find the news easier to follow than narrative entertainment programs.
Jon Stewart
#37. A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.
Susan Glaspell
#38. Doesn't suicide seem a little like going where you haven't been invited?
Richard Eberhart
#39. The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
Clarence Darrow
#40. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got.
William Ralph Inge
#41. A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, hangs his head and says, "I'm nothing." Rather, he is one who depends wholly on the Lord for everything, in every circumstance.
David Wilkerson
#42. As my friend George Oppen once said to me about getting old: what a strange thing to happen to a little boy.
Paul Auster
#43. Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence.
Walter Savage Landor
#44. He that pines with hunger, is in little care how others shall be fed. The poor man is seldom studious to make his grandson rich.
Samuel Johnson
#45. Up a set and 2-0 it's definitely a situation where a little match practice would've helped, so I'm disappointed but think I can take some positives from the first set and the start of the second.
Mark Philippoussis
#46. You've got to spend a little money to make a little money.
Elizabeth Arden
#47. If your knowledge teaches you not to rise above human weakness and misery and lead your fellow man on the right path, you are indeed a man of little worth and will remain such till Judgment Day.
Khalil Gibran
#48. A lot of people just thought I'd be a .260 hitter all my life. I was kind of like, 'Let me make some adjustments and let me learn the game a little bit.'
Jeff Francoeur
#49. I am nothing! If you could know the dream of what I would like to be, you would realize how little I have accomplished.
Ignacy Jan Paderewski
#50. Satan will give you a little taste, then he'll move in with rapid speed.
Bob Dylan
#51. Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like.
Joseph Sobran
#52. Oh, you wanna do a little bit of roleplay? Could you just play dead?
Jack Whitehall
#53. I like to zoom out of the situation so I can see it all and don't get caught up in the little things down there.
Ali Banisadr
#54. We're still who we are at the roots. I reckon, hopefully, you let it branch out a little bit and you learn. You live and learn, so that's what we've tried to do.
Eddie Montgomery
#56. You've got to be a little nasty out there. But most of the time, I'm having fun.
Brian Urlacher
#57. You can't just live in a comfortable little suburban neighborhood and get your education from movies and television and have any perspective on life.
Craig Venter
#58. If the Constitution says that the little guy should win, the little guy is going to win in court before me, ... But if the Constitution says that the big guy should win, well, then the big guy is going to win because my obligation is to the Constitution.
John Roberts
#59. If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?
John Lancaster Spalding
#60. It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?
Urban Meyer
#61. The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.
Robert A. Heinlein
#62. Only he who gives thanks for the little things receives the big things.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#63. Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!
Blaise Pascal
#65. The thing that can get you a little upset is when people say other people are better than you. That can bug you.
Al Pacino
#66. Dancing is so great because there are all the little details, and the little movements, and the little muscles that are working without you even realizing.
Julianne Hough
#67. Life is a short walk. There is so little time and so much living to achieve.
John Oliver Killens
#68. Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future.
Theodore Roosevelt
#69. Sometimes it all gets a little too much, but you gotta realize that soon the fog will clear up.
Shawn Mendes
#70. When I got a little older I was obsessed Lil Wayne. But then it was just as many British rappers - Dizzee Rascal I would always listen to.
Tinie Tempah
#71. When I was 9 years old, I wanted to be the baritone sax player in the Little Richard band.
David Bowie
#72. There are actually two approaches to reside your daily life. One is as if absolutely nothing is really a miracle. The other is as if every little thing is a wonder
Albert Einstein
#74. There is always something to do. You just need to look harder, be creative and a little flexible.
Peter Cundill
#75. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
Orison Swett Marden
#76. There are experts in little things but there are no experts in big things. There are experts in this fact and that fact but there are no moral experts.
Peter Ustinov
#77. If patience and gratitude had been she camels, it would have mattered little on which I rode.
Umar
#78. There's pressure to deliver as good of a movie with a little bit more of a budget, and that to me ... to me the hardest thing always is, I just want to deliver a good movie no matter what the budget is and no matter where we shoot it or any of those things.
Neal H. Moritz
#79. I always give myself a little part in every movie.
Adam McKay
#80. Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like an owl that is blinded by the sun, we will yet force it to smile.
Leonid Andreyev
#81. There are lots of good reasons to abandon a project. Having a little competition is not one of them.
Seth Godin
#82. I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
Bo Burnham
#83. I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.
David Carradine
#84. He is always a slave who cannot live on little.
Horace
#85. Communication with the dead is only a little more difficult than communication with some of the living.
Ashleigh Brilliant
#86. If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.
Edward Young
#87. How do you find the divine power in yourself? The word enthusiasm means 'filled with a god,' so what makes you enthusiastic? Follow it. So I have a little word: follow your bliss. The bliss is the message of God to yourself. That's where your life is.
Joseph Campbell
#88. I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I clutched at it like a drowning man at a straw hat.
P.G. Wodehouse
#89. I had started working in television but it did not pay that much. I was 27, renting this little one-bed flat in Shepherd's Bush, West London, with a bathroom so small only someone of my size could actually get in it.
Anthea Turner
#90. I work more now perhaps because I know that there is so little time left.
Fernando Botero
#91. Africa is not a country, but it is a continent like none other. It has that which is elegantly vast or awfully little.
Douglas Wilder
#92. A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude.
Michel De Montaigne
#93. Without anxiety life would have very little savor.
May Sarton
#94. But if we are to be told by a foreign Power ... what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little.
George Washington
#95. All of us, the great and the little have need of each other.
Aesop
#96. I love Michigan, to be honest. I don't think I'd live nowhere else. It's cheap! This is Detroit. A little bit of nothing gets you a lot of something.
Danny Brown
#97. Most writers have very little that's important or valuable to offer; most of them are just repeating each other.
Pankaj Mishra
#98. Little known fact, or not a little known fact actually - that Prince is a Gemini.
Nikki Jean
#99. There were millions of such families anxious only for peace and quiet in their own little nests. These were the mounting blocks by which the criminals climbed to power and kept it.
Simon Wiesenthal
#100. He who serves God with what costs him nothing, will do very little service, you may depend on it.
Susan Warner