Top 100 Very Little Quotes
#1. It matters very little whether your judgments of people are true or untrue, and very much whether they are kind or unkind,
#2. When I was very little, I probably wanted to be more normal. I probably wanted the Laura Ashley bedroom, and instead I got thrift-store everything.
#3. In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement.
#4. O Christian, within a very little time you shall be rid of all your trials and your troubles.
#5. There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.
#6. Back in the days of Apollo, sending humans to the moon was the only viable way to get the scientific data we wanted. But now, with our computer and robotics technology, there's very little an astronaut can do on Mars that a well-designed rover can't.
#7. It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
#8. Six o'clock means very little to a three-year-old. It works better to say "after dinner," or "as soon as the baby takes her morning nap.
#9. Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much
#10. I think to a certain extent, Clinton may have expected as the senior president that Obama would've reached out to him and asked for his council; he's done that very little. So, I think the relationship has not been good over the years.
#11. Very little of what he learned of people's actions began or ended with either the noble ideals or the fiendish wickedness he had been taught lay behind all great struggles. There was something comforting in this.
#12. That men of a certain type should behave as they do is inevitable. To wish it otherwise were to wish the fig-tree would not yield its juice. In any case, remember that in a very little while both you and he will be dead, and your very names will quickly be forgotten.
#13. There is very little 'of course' when it comes to custom
#14. A healthy PFC means a healthy cognitive grip over the world with very little elements of prejudice.
#15. Very little useful science got done in the space station. NASA never did the experiments needed to develop the technologies required for a genuine interplanetary expedition: centrifugal gravity to avoid bodily harm and a truly closed biosphere.
#16. There is very little moral mixture in the 'Antislavery' feeling of this country. A great deal is abstract philanthropy; part is hatred of slaveholders; a great part is jealousy for white labor, very little is consciousness of wrong done and the wish to right it.
#17. Mr. Darcy said very little, and Mr. Hurst nothing at all. The former was divided between admiration of the brilliancy which exercise had given to her complexion, and doubt as to the occasion's justifying her coming so far alone. The latter was thinking only of his breakfast.
#18. And now as we ready to self-destruct there is very little left to kill which makes the tragedy less and more much much more.
#19. One of the most troublesome things in life is that what you do or do not want has very little to do with what does or does not happen.
#20. Always the way!" muttered the Jew to himself as he turned homewards. "The worst of these women is, that a very little thing serves to call up some long-forgotten feeling; and the best of them is, that it never lasts. Ha! ha!
#21. As an actor, there's very little you can do if people don't want to see you. Just getting yourself into the room to audition is tough.
#22. While I am overwhelmingly proud of work that I, believe me, did not do on my own, I can assure you that awards have very little bearing on my own personal happiness, my own sense of well-being and purpose in the world.
#23. It is clear that there needs to be a closer working relationship between the United States and India. How can we have a close relationship if decision-makers in Washington know very little, if anything, about the religious beliefs, values, and practices of India's 800 million Hindus?
#24. It's not the length of man's life that establishes his importance and influence, in fact, the length of a man's life has very little to do with it's impact.
#25. We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.
#26. I shoot very little film. If you just do coverage you're shooting any number of potential films instead of just one, and I was shooting just one specific film. Film is cheap but time is expensive.
#27. Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.
#28. The scarcity trap captures this notion we see again and again in many domains. When people have very little, they undertake behaviors that maintain or reinforce their future disadvantage. If you have very little, you often behave in such a way so that you'll have little in the future.
#29. Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
#30. We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things.
#31. The fault I find with most American newspapers is not the absence of dissent. it is the absence of news. With a dozen or so honorable exceptions, most American newspapers carry very little news. Their main concern is advertising.
#32. The Universe contains everything and nothing.
There is very little everything.
And more nothing than you can possibly imagine.
#33. Whoever is faithful in very little is also faithful in much, and whoever is unrighteous in very little is also unrighteous in much.
#34. I grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. My father wasn't religious at all. But he was really interested in the subject of, you know, the birth and growth of Islam. And he basically transmitted that interest to me.
#35. A man who will not lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings.
#36. There may be beings, thinking beings, near or surrounding us, which we do not perceive, which we cannot imagine. We know very little; but, in my opinion, we know enough to hope for the immortality, the individual immortality, of the better part of man.
#37. There are some people who see a great deal and some who see very little in the same things.
#38. I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.
#39. Fashion is a little help in the life of a person. But very little. After all, if you have a serious drama, who cares about the clothes?
#40. For the first thirty years of my life I exercised very little, and I smoked cigarettes for ten or twelve years, and I ate junk food. And I began to see some elders in my community's health decline, and I didn't want that to happen to me.
#41. Whoever appears to have much cunning has in reality very little; being deficient in the essential article, which is, to hide cunning.
#42. Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.
#43. Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
#44. My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups.
#45. When I was a deacon, the ominous signs of the Great Depression began to appear. Tens of thousands lost their jobs. Money was scarce. Families had to do without. Some young people did not ask their mothers, 'What's for dinner?' because they knew all too well that their cupboards held very little.
#46. When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work.
#47. If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold.
#48. There's very little reason in politics these days.
#49. I have very little choice. If I don't write, I feel dreadful. So I write.
#50. I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.
#51. A very little key will open a very heavy door.
#52. Preaching is tax free. Very little to do with God, a lot to do with money
#53. I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.
#54. If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
#55. The Dodd Bill does very little to reduce financial risks. What it will do is make Wall Street even more the servant of bureaucrats in Washington and the political party in power. That is not in the best interests of the American people.
#56. The work changes the way your face changes and ages - it just does. Also, I have very little connection to anything I've written. I move on. We all move on
#57. Life has very little even ground.
#58. Every musician writes about past relationships. And other than that, I can promise you, I have very little in common with Taylor Swift.
#59. My dog knows very little, but what little he does know he knows extraordinarily well.
#60. We must consider how very little history there is
I mean real, authentic history. That certain kings reigned and certain battles were fought, we can depend upon as true; but all the coloring, all the philosophy, of history is conjecture.
#61. But from the time I was very little, it was something I would do all the time, just sing, dance and act. So it wasn't something that was fake or contrived as I got older.
#62. When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't.
#63. You know, when you were three years old, you got lost in the woods and we found you with your head in a foxes den. Sometimes I think very little has changed. I mean, you be a bit taller.
#64. In a very little time they got to the corner of the field by the side of the pine wood where Eeyore's house wasn't any longer.
'There!' said Eeyore. 'Not a stick of it left! Of course, I've still got all this snow to do what I like with. One mustn't complain.
#65. In the Premier League you never really know what is going to happen. There is very little between the teams.
#66. The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others.
#67. Considering I know what you look like naked and what you sound like when you come and what you taste like, I actually know very little about you.
#68. A very little quiet reflection was enough to satisfy Emma
#69. You're looking, sir, at a very dull survivor of a very gaudy life. Crippled, paralyzed in both legs. Very little I can eat, and my sleep is so near waking that it's hardly worth the name. I seem to exist largely on heat, like a newborn spider.
#70. The truth is, when you have little to do, you do very little. But when you have much to do, you do much. So it should make sense that by taking on more than you can handle, you accomplish more than you ever dreamed you could. And so it is.
#71. Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.
#72. Even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.
#73. Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves.
#74. He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have.
#75. I have no faith, very little hope, and as much charity as I can afford.
#76. Judge me if you must, but keep in mind how very little pleasure I could have possibly derived from a one-thrust sex session, a quickie in a closet, and a come-free drunken hookup.
If anything, you should feel sorry for me.
#77. Very little in life if fair, Susannah
#78. I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.
#79. You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.
#80. During my early days as a sportsman and early career as a policeman, things were tight. In athletics I competed as an amateur and, although I might have received some expenses, very little came my way in earnings.
#81. Art could state very little - it's whole business is to evoke responses.
#82. I am positive that much that passes for the gospel in our day is very little more than a very mild case of orthodox religion grafted on to a heart that is sold out to the world in its pleasures and tastes and ambitions.
#83. For me, it's a compliment to be compared with Marilyn, the unforgettable actress, the most beautiful one of all. But, curves aside, we have very little in common.
#84. The decline of religious belief,which has all sorts of effects on morals and even on politics because religion has been a tool of politics. But today in Europe it ceases to be a tool, it has very little influence in determining political decisions -
#85. I do not set specific work hours as some writers do. I generally stay with a chapter until I am satisfied, do very little rewriting, and if a scene is going well, I've been known to keep night owl hours.
#86. If you've got a billion dollars and you're ungrateful, you're a poor man. If you have very little but you're grateful for what you have, you're truly rich.
#87. My mother was the tough-as-nails disciplinarian who showed very little to no emotion. My father, on the other hand, was a study in contradiction. He was the fire, hell, and brimstone preacher, while also being incredibly gentle and forward thinking. I identify with him a lot.
#88. It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
#89. I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
#90. Nahuseresh had attributed her reluctance to an entirely understandable female timidity. He didn't seem to understand that the people of Eddis had very little to do all winter beyond develop superior artisan skills and train for war.
#91. I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
#92. Just as a very little fresh water is blown away by a storm of wind and dust, in like manner the good deeds, that we think we do in this life, are overwhelmed by the multitude of evils.
#93. For me the process works best with no interruptions, no breaks in the steady application, no letters to be answered, very little social life, no holidays; it is therefore a form of happy imprisonment.
#94. Starbucks is not an advertiser; people think we are a great marketing company, but in fact we spend very little money on marketing and more money on training our people than advertising.
#95. Val was eating cornflakes. She ate very little else, at home. They were light, they were pleasant, they were comforting, and then after a day or two they were like cotton wool.
#96. There was very little art in my childhood. I was raised in South Carolina; I wasn't aware of any art in South Carolina. There was a minor museum in Charleston, which had nothing of interest in it. It showed local artists, paintings of birds.
#97. Some people enjoy humiliation. Maybe I used to be one of those people, but I don't feel humiliation anymore. The body sloughs off cells every day, aging. After all that, what is left to feel humiliated? Very little indeed.
#98. As it turns out, what makes a dog adoptable has very little to do with dogs, a great deal to do with humans.
#99. Even very little things can change your destiny and throw you to a different path, to a different fate; you must never forget that even very little things have great powers!
#100. When I go on my boat or to my vacation houses, where I still unfortunately spend very little time, I don't go with the celebrities I know but with a close group of friends and people who have worked with me for a long time.
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