Top 100 Small Thing Quotes
#1. Our work may be important, but we don't take it too seriously. Otherwise, we get attached to one relatively small thing and ignore the rest of life.
Bernie Glassman
#2. I can't shake the crazy feeling that there is some small thing that we're being lied to about.
Daniel Quinn
#3. One small thing
I've learned these years,
how to be alone,
and at the edge of aloneness
how to be found by the world.
David Whyte
#4. Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
Mark Twain
#5. If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
Sydney J. Harris
#7. God did not appear to Abraham without speaking to him. When He came to Abraham, He called him. God spoke to Abraham. Calling means speaking. It is not a small thing to hear God's speaking.
Witness Lee
#8. You become great by going small thing in a great way.
Zig Ziglar
#9. Love hunger and thirst for the sake of Christ. Insofar as you pacify your body, so much much will you do make your soul virtuous. God, who rewards thoughts, words, and deeds, will give good in return for even a small thing which you gladly suffer for His sake.
Gennadius Of Constantinople
#10. A man is a very small thing, and the night is very large and full of wonders.
Lord Dunsany
#11. Now, young man. That's no small thing,
Jim Butcher
#13. All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return.
Jodi Picoult
#14. Worry and anxiety give a small thing a big shadow, and this shadow creates problems, not just in the soul and spirit, but in the body.
Linda Dillow
#15. This savoring of life is no small thing. The element of wonder is almost lost today with the onslaught of the media and gadgets of our noisy world. To let a child lose it is to make him blind and deaf to the best of life.
Gladys M. Hunt
#16. It seemed so hopeless, so impossible that a life could rest on such a small thing (the human heart).
Brenna Yovanoff
#17. if you wanted to see me dead,you would whisper and i could kill self for you happiness it was a small thing but you made yourself corrupt for very small thing
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#18. I asked her why she was getting so upset about such a small thing. She said, 'It doesn't feel small to me.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#19. It might sound a small thing, but if you want to get Tom Cruise into your movie, without a track record or without those agents knowing you, it's almost impossible. Now I can get through to pretty much anyone I want. Of course, 90 per cent of the time they still say no.
Eric Fellner
#20. Jesus died to save men - a small thing for an immortal to do - and didn't save many, anyway. But if he had been damned for the race, that would have been act of a size proper to a god, and would have saved the whole race.
Mark Twain
#21. The robotic fly that we actually make the most use of in our laboratory is actually not a small thing, it's a giant thing. It has about a meter wing span, and it flaps in three metric tons of mineral oil. And it is a so-called dynamically scaled fly.
Michael Dickinson
#22. 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
#23. And still you'll hesitate to tell him, won't you? Why? Because you're a woman? Is your destiny such a small thing then? To keep your legs open and your mouth shut?
David Hewson
#24. 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
#26. Heart be brave. If you cannot be brave, just go. Love's glory is not a small thing.
Rumi
#27. To pray is no small thing. It is nothing less than a sacred pilgrimage into the heart of the whole world.
Wayne Muller
#28. I am Moody ... and a Cancerian to the boot. Even a small thing can change the entire mood, but I'm working on that. Besides, I'm also loyal and possessive.
Katrina Kaif
#29. Tact is not a small thing; in the battle of life it is more powerful than a bludgeon.
Arthur Lynch
#30. Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel.
Cecelia Ahern
#31. The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
Bruce Jackson
#32. I have been into social work since 45 years, and at an average, every day for one or two hours, I have been engaging in social discourses. It is not a small thing.
Narendra Modi
#33. Butterfly was certainly a vehicle for me, and if it died, it still would have served its purpose, in spades. We never expected it to give me the visibility it has given me. It was just a small thing as a vehicle, and suddenly the whole world knew about it.
Pia Zadora
#34. Do the small things with a great and a clean heart, even out of your least, and you never did a small thing at all, for the heart defines it all!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#35. No small thing, a bee's sting When it enters the heart Not so benign, the growing vine When it tears stone apart
Shannon Hale
#36. It is not really a small thing when in small things we resist self.
Thomas A Kempis
#37. In every marriage the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her.
John O'Hara
#38. I'm not a journalist; I'm probably a horrible interviewer. The one small thing I have is I'm curious, and I'm interested in who I'm with.
Doug Aitken
#39. The girl she said, I didn't tell you this because it was a small thing, but little girls, they leave their hearts at home when they walk outside. Hearts are so precious. They don't want to lose them.
Edwidge Danticat
#40. It's why we broke up, Ed, a small thing that's disappeared or maybe was never really in my hands in the first place.
Daniel Handler
#41. You're Lucy, my little one, and that is no small thing.
Mindy McGinnis
#42. This is the only advice I offer you. Pick the small thing, and carry it on. Let it change your life.
Anna White
#43. It would no longer be the small thing it was before, but the most important thing in the world, the thing that would save my life. This happened time and again.
Yann Martel
#44. Sometimes the world slows and you notice every small thing, as if you stood between two beats of eternity's heart.
Mark Lawrence
#45. There are thousands willing to do great things for one willing to do a small thing.
George MacDonald
#47. The nod of a head is such a small thing, it can mean so little, yet it is the gesture of assent that allows, that makes to be. The nod is the gesture of power, the yes. The numen. the presence of the sacred, is called by its name.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#48. He'd lapped at her ankles like a lovesick pup, and she'd been exactly what she was now, a woman born too beautiful and too rich to worry about a small thing like integrity.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
#49. As it turned out, my fears were unwarranted. Which isn't to say you haven't changed. But the biggest change of all has been a measure of peace. The peace is not total, but in the face of a suffocating anxiety, a measure of peace is no small thing.
Maggie Nelson
#50. I was having a bad day, and my friend said, 'Go wash your hair.' I thought it was really silly - but it made me feel so much better. It might be a small thing, but it works. Washing it off and starting over.
Kaley Cuoco
#51. Even one small thing can go right in a world so wrong ~ Mare Barrow
Victoria Aveyard
#52. When I was a kid I joined the circus. I did that. It is true. But it's not like you think. There was a guy, he had his own circus. His name was Carol Jacobs and he owned it. It was a small thing.
Christopher Walken
#53. Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.
Charlotte Moss
#54. It was a small thing, but it was a thing, and things have a way of either dying or growing, and it wasn't dying.
Miranda July
#55. It was no small thing that Palin was chosen exclusively by men, in an effort to win women, her strategy devised by men who had never run a woman for a high-level office before.
Anne Kornblut
#56. When some one steals a small hope from you, you can do nothing, only can see dreams stolen ... It's small thing, but means a lot ... Waiting for several such moments, when your dreams are stolen ... it's life you had no choice just feel it and forget ...
Nutan Bajracharya
#57. The heart is a small thing, but desireth great matters. It is not sufficient for a kite's dinner, yet the whole world is not sufficient for it.
Francis Quarles
#58. The human heart is no small thing, for it can embrace so much.
Origen
#59. Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is considered perverse.
Paulo Coelho
#60. You speak of doing good to the world. Is the world such a small thing? And who are you, pray, to do good to the world? First realise God, see Him by means of spiritual discipline. If He imparts power you can do good to others; otherwise not.
Ramakrishna
#61. Happiness, it's a small thing - just a very little thing.
Michael Leunig
#62. Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.
Michelangelo
#63. 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
#64. 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
#66. I mean, I don't want to sound - of course it's very nice, people come up and say appreciative things about my work. But the loss, in terms of privacy and anonymity, is no small thing to me.
Todd Solondz
#67. 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
#68. He said that he felt that there was a book hidden between us. Some small thing lodged between a rib or a summer. and He wanted to find it.
Mikl Paul
#69. Democracy's a farce, Ronan said, and Adam smirked, a private, small thing that was inherently exclusionary. An expression, in fact, that he could've very well learned from Ronan.
Maggie Stiefvater
#70. Both males took a deep breath. And then Wrath put his hand on top of Xcor's head, as if in benediction. Looking up, the King sought Layla out with his blind eyes. "You should be proud of your male. This is no small thing for a warrior." She brushed at her eyes. "Yes." Wrath
J.R. Ward
#71. I had arrived. I'd done it. It seemed like such a small thing and such a tremendous thing at once, like a secret I'd always tell myself though I didn't know the meaning of it just yet.
Cheryl Strayed
#73. I had nothing to fear from my father.
Except his disappointment.
Which was no small thing.
Barbara Delinsky
#74. Children are the only people who can see adults from inside their lives, permitted to observe every small thing, as if their forming minds are incapable of judging what they see, or as if it does not lodge there, somewhere, permanently,
Anna Funder
#75. You never know when some small thing will lead to a big idea. Travel is very inspirational - but it's in the ordinary that I find my themes of love and work and family.
Adriana Trigiani
#76. So far as it goes, a small thing may give analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge.
Titus Lucretius Carus
#77. 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
#78. He hadn't known many British, but some of them seemed crazy to him, and so it seemed a small thing to agree to - and Wally thought it was wise to agree with whoever it was who held the catheter.
John Irving
#79. What concerns this dress is a small thing - less than nothing. I did not take it by the advice of any man in the world. I did not take this dress or do anything but by the command of Our Lord and of the Angels.
Joan Of Arc
#80. But for the first time in many years, I get to sleep in my own bed every night. I haven't done that, literally, in years. It seems like such a small thing, but it is so nice.
Linda Vester
#81. Any movie that gets made and ends up in a position where people are coming to talk about it, it's not a small thing.
Tom Cavanagh
#82. 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
#83. Popularity has a bright side, it unlocks many doors. But the truth is that I don't like it very much because it changes the private life into a very small thing.
Gina Lollobrigida
#84. 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
#85. You would think," added Art, "that a wedding was a great thing."
"Well," replied Old Hector, "it's not a small thing, as a rule. They contrive, one way or another, to make a lot of it.
Neil M. Gunn
#86. I've started to think that maybe I wouldn't mind passing my demented genius on to some small thing who can set fire and breathe profanity.
Marilyn Manson
#87. All I'm saying is that worrying about it isn't going to fix anything. The only thing we can do is keep on with our own small thing and try hard to be good and to make life better, and know that if it all ends tomorrow that we were at least happy.
Lauren Groff
#88. The last sin, the sin against the Holy Ghost - to lie to oneself. Lying to other people - that's a small thing in comparison.
Rose Macaulay
#89. I feel scared and unsure of what to do next, but decide that no matter what happens, I'm glad I ran away. A pony like Smokey is worth fighting for - even if we did get him for free. A pony like Smokey is no small thing.
Natale Ghent
#90. Do one small thing immediately - often this is all you need to do to get started.
Brian Tracy
#91. Right now there should be a moratorium on the cutting down of old growth in this country. That is a small thing to ask at this point. There is only four percent of old growth left. Ninety-six percent of it has been cut down.
Woody Harrelson
#92. 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
#93. Valiantly, he tried to bring his soul to life in the small thing through which it had to live, and it was crushed, again and again.
Mary Gaitskill
#94. It is not histories I am writing, but lives; and in the most glorious deeds there is not always an indication of virtue or vice, indeed a small thing like a phrase or a jest often makes a greater revelation of a character than battles where thousands die.
Plutarch
#95. You will regret the small thing you didn't say for the rest of your life.
Cheryl Strayed
#96. They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts.
Mother Teresa
#97. I would like to curl up and become a small thing. About this big. And still. Very still. Have you ever become so melancholy, that you wanted to fit in the palm of your beloved's hand? And lie there, for fortnights, or decades, or the length of time between stars? In complete silence?
Sarah Ruhl
#98. I worried constantly. I felt that my son was chipping away at me. This small thing and then that small thing.
Anita Shreve
#99. It's no small thing - ending someone else's life. There should be some sort of gravity to that, shouldn't there? My insides are heavy, but it has nothing to do with what I did. It is only about what I have lost.
Paula Stokes
