Top 54 Smallest Thing Quotes
#1. An actor puts himself in the hands of a director. And the director's first responsibility, obviously, is to tell the story, but the smallest thing that's not true reads on the screen. So if a director sees that an actor is not believable, he needs to help him become believable.
Tobin Bell
#2. In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a Leitmotiv.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#3. When they came into their trench he felt small enough. The biggest thing there was the roaring of Death and the smallest thing was a man. Bombs not so far off distressed the earth of Belgium, disgorged great heaps of it, and did everything except kill him immediately, as he half expected them to do.
Sebastian Barry
#4. If we're open it, God can use even the smallest thing to change our lives ...
Donna VanLiere
#5. A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.
William Shatner
#6. The simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression ... In photography, the smallest thing can be a great subject. The little human detail can become a leitmotif.
Henri Cartier-Bresson
#7. Sometimes it doesn't matter how dark the world gets. You can be saved by the smallest thing.
Brenna Yovanoff
#8. Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity.
Eric Knight
#9. Perspective is so interesting. The smallest thing becomes pleasurable when troubles are monumental.
Sandra Vischer
#10. A quark is not the smallest thing. The smallest thing is the regret you will feel on your deathbed for not having worked more.
Matt Haig
#11. When you are deeply in love,. even the smallest thing can hurt u like hell and break u into pieces ...
BHARAT SHARMA
#12. Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.
Jonathan Carroll
#13. Certain people have said that the world is like a calm pond, and that anytime a person does even the smallest thing, it is as if a stone has dropped into the pond, spreading circles of ripples further and further out, until the entire world has been changed by one tiny action.
Lemony Snicket
#15. Sometimes it could be the smallest thing that could topple over a whole life, and, in the end, destroy it.
Nova Ren Suma
#16. When you have so little, just the smallest thing can make you happy - and
Yeonmi Park
#18. Stress can wear away at you for a long time, and the last straw can be the smallest thing.
Joshua Guess
#19. Pride consists in a man making his personality the only test, instead of making truth the test. The sceptic feels himself too large to measure life by the largest things; and ends by measuring it by the smallest thing of all.
G.K. Chesterton
#20. The smallest thing in its rightful place can lead to the highest goals.
Rudolf Steiner
#21. Do what nature now requires. Set thyself in motion, if it is in thy power, and do not look about thee to see if any one will observe it; nor yet expect Plato's Republic: but be content if the smallest thing goes on well, and consider such an event to be no small matter.
Marcus Aurelius
#22. It's important to take pleasure from the smallest thing. You never know what live will bring.
Mette Barfelt
#23. The smallest thing in this universe is an intelligent living creature.
He sets himself to be imaginary in the premises of arrogant scientist.
Toba Beta
#24. I'm married now, but back when I had girlfriends, you were always wondering if they liked you, and if you liked them enough. You're together, but the smallest thing could make one of you go 'You know what? This isn't working!'
Jeremy Sisto
#25. Think about how rare it is for anyone to encounter a teacher who can open you up to the notion that there is an infinite amount of meaning and possibility and inspiration in the smallest thing before you.
Greil Marcus
#26. He nodded toward the specimens he'd collected. These anonymous creatures, he said, may seem little or nothing in the world. Yet the smallest crumb can devour us. Any smallest thing beneath yon rock out of men's knowing.
Cormac McCarthy
#27. Why was it women could go to pieces or fly into a rage at the smallest thing, yet never flicker an eyelash at what left you gaping?
Robert Jordan
#28. It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#29. Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.
Martin Luther
#30. To be great, be whole;
Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you.
Be whole in everything. Put all you are
Into the smallest thing you do.
So, in each lake, the moon shines with splendor
Because it blooms up above.
Fernando Pessoa
#31. Once a year my back will go out and it'll be ... it's like a sciatic thing and it's the smallest thing. Like I could be leaning over the sink to brush my teeth in a weird way and it happens.
Kevin James
#32. What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.
Roger Angell
#33. A man could have everything he wanted and be truly happy, but if you take away only the smallest thing, he becomes angry, resentful, and his happiness rots like a deshfruit left in the midday sun.
Robert J. Crane
#34. A hotel is like a prison, he thought. The rooms are cells holding secrets and passions. Then something happens, the smallest thing, and the doors fly open. The explosion goes off. Panic. And fragments of truth.
E. Howard Hunt
#35. Imagining what would happen if you changed one thing you do on a daily basis - and thinking about how that change would affect everything else - is a clever way to conquer seemingly impossible scenarios and consider how even the smallest thing you deal with impacts everything else you do.
Tanner Christensen
#36. Wait until you're old, Nora," she said, "and then you'll know. It's the mixture of being content with even the smallest thing and then feeling a great dissatisfaction with everything.
Colm Toibin
#37. There is a part of everything which is unexplored,
because we are accustomed to using our eyes only in association with the memory of what people before us have thought of the thing we are looking at. Even the smallest thing has something in it which is unknown.
Guy De Maupassant
#38. Sometimes, if a song is written, in essence, to be that stripped down, it's very touchy when you start adding things, because even the smallest thing can have a huge impact. Somebody has to make the decision that there's a better song in there if there's less.
Chris Cornell
#39. Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another.
Sun Myung Moon
#40. The most important thing is to express your true nature in the simplest, most adequate way and to appreciate it in the smallest existence.
Shunryu Suzuki
#41. The only thing I'm afraid of about this country is that its government will someday become so monstrous that the smallest person in it will be trampled underfoot, and then it wouldn't be worth living in.
Harper Lee
#42. And then as we played more and more as a trio, it became more and more of a situation where we realized we really knew how to use the fourth member of the group - that space. The thing about the trio is that it's the biggest sound you can have with the smallest unit.
Charlie Hunter
#43. Even chance meetings are the result of karma ... Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there's no such thing as coincidence.
Haruki Murakami
#44. The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a
world from the smallest part of a thing.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#45. Here is the world, sound as a nut, perfect, not the smallest piece of chaos left, never a stitch nor an end, not a mark of haste, or botching, or second thought; but the theory of the world is a thing of shreds and patches.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#46. The bigger the issue, the smaller you write. Remember that. You don't write about the horrors of war. No. You write about a kid's burnt socks lying on the road. You pick the smallest manageable part of the big thing, and you work off the resonance.
Richard Price
#47. I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
Oscar Wilde
#48. The shaping of character mimics the smallest detail of habit; humans are creatures that learn from observation. Each little thing you do, and each thing you allow yourself to become desensitized to matters. They create you - whether you know it consciously or not.
Grace Sara
#49. Pure love ... knows that only one thing is needed to please God: to do even the smallest things out of great love - love, and always love.
Mary Faustina Kowalska
#50. For millenia, scientists always try to measure
the size of this vast universe. One way to know
that is first to find the smallest single thing that
constructs this universe. When they get it, the
real measurement of universe can be understood for sure.
Toba Beta
#51. It's one thing to face great odds, but even the smallest struggle, if undertaken without hope, looms and swells with the fatal poisons of despair.
K.W. Jeter
#52. It's such a psychological and mental game, golf, that the smallest wrong thing at the wrong time can distract you from what you're trying to achieve.
Lee Westwood
#53. What a good thing it is to have in this world one person of whom who need not cherish the smallest fear!
Jean Plaidy
#54. The greatest of blessings can come from what appear to be the smallest and most insignificant of things. Don't discredit anything or anyone. One person, one tiny thing, one little shift can change your life in enormous ways.
Patience W. Smith
