Small Contribution Quotes

#1. Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet. This is no small contribution.

Judith Martin

#2. The motivations of a scientist are always mixed and complex ... every medical student has the desire to do good in the world. Making a small contribution to that effort is really in a sense the last significant thing that I want to do with my life.

Gustav Nossal

#3. For we were, as I say, an idealistic generation for whom the question was not simply one of how well one practised one's skills, but to what end one did so; each of us harboured the desire to make our own small contribution to the creation of a better world,

Kazuo Ishiguro

#4. In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking down, and I thought, What a wonderful thing; perhaps I can make some small contribution to this process, myself.

George Carlin

#5. I love waking up in the morning. It makes me feel really excited.

Jenny Slate

#6. I'm the one who looks at the infant, smiles nervously, and as my contribution to small talk, robotically announces to the parent, Your child looks healthy and well cared for.

Mindy Kaling

#7. The legend of the parting of the Red Sea probably refers to tidal changes in the Sea of Reeds related to the Thera eruption.

Julian Jaynes

#8. To be physically fit is just a small aspect. You can be a beautiful physical specimen, but you're empty as far as what it takes to be a person, and that shows up real fast.

Lee Haney

#9. Yeah, I'm an open book.

Amy Winehouse

#10. There is something sadly wrong when it is more important to us whether others are a part of our denomination, rather than whether they repent of sin, believe on Christ and live holy lives.

J.C. Ryle

#11. A man's greatness is neither determined by having great dreams nor by his determination to realize them; but by his contribution - however small may be - to the progression of the humanity, without forgetting other creatures as well!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. I believe you came into the world to accomplish something, and that the something you came to accomplish is not small or insignificant, that's not worthy of you. You came here to make a major contribution to life on this planet.

Paul Solomon

#13. How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway ... And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!

Anne Frank

#14. It is the work of God alone to justify, to sanctify, and to glorify.

John Wesley

#15. All scientists know of colleagues whose minds are so well equipped with the means of refutation that no new idea has the temerity to seek admittance. Their contribution to science is accordingly very small.

Peter Medawar

#16. We pick up the pieces, Donna. Some of them are broken.

Dan Abnett

#17. So many young people feel powerless. We live in a world where it feels like it's so big and yet so small, and that your contribution really doesn't matter.

Lorraine Toussaint

#18. I have a job that requires me to be in the public eye in the way that makes me extra careful about sharing information.

Jesse Eisenberg

#19. Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.

Winston S. Churchill

#20. The point of the feminist movement wasn't simply to set our underwear on fire and muscle into small spaces in the male-dominated workplace, but to create a world where the contribution of both sexes was equally valued and no one's worth was judged on their take-home salary.

Mariella Frostrup

#21. All of the musical projects that I am involved with are near and dear to my heart and allow me in a small way to make a contribution to the world of music.

Nathan East

#22. The game itself is an autonomous game, but everybody is a part of it. No contribution is too small.

Joe Torre

#23. Whatever your financial status in life, or whatever work you do, know that you can make a significant contribution to your family and world by doing small things with great love.

Joyce Vissell

#24. During a sabbatical he learned enough biology to make a small but genuine contribution to geneticists' understanding of mutations in DNA.

James Gleick

#25. We all cannot do everything or solve every issue. "It's impossible", however, if we each simply do our part. Make our own contribution, regardless of how small we may think it is ... together it adds up and great things get accomplished.

Mark W. Boyer

#26. I'm not final because I'm right, I'm right because I'm final.

Mills Lane

#27. There's just a lot of really young, entitled people. I don't think a lot of these young people have to work very hard. They're found on YouTube and, boom, thrown into the studio, so they think they can get anything they want.

Drake Bell

#28. Resolve to make at least one person happy every day, and then in ten years you may have made three thousand, six hundred and fifty persons happy, or brightened a small town by your contribution to the fund of general enjoyment.

Sydney Smith

#29. I always looked up to so many people before me and was lucky to become such good friends with them. I learned so much hanging out with those cats.

Kid Rock

#30. Wearing a Hawaiian shirt, you don't ever come across as offensive. Nobody sees you as a threat. You see someone in a Hawaiian shirt, and you are like 'this guy is ready to party.'

Gabriel Iglesias