Little Things Quotes - Page 15

• Then I knew that the sign I had asked for was not a little thing, not a passing nod of recognition, and a phrase came back to me from my childhood of the veil of the temple being rent from top to bottom.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Childhood, Phrases, Veils

  Evelyn Waugh (1958). “The world of Evelyn Waugh”

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• Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. It is each little thing that you do that day - whether it be spending time with your friends, running in a cross-country meet or just simply staring at the crashing ocean- that holds the key to discovering the meaning of life. I would rather be out enjoying these things than pondering them. We may never really discover the meaning of life, but the knowledge we gain in our quest to discover it is truly more valuable.

  Jack Canfield

  Country, Running, Ocean

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• The little things that you do From across the room I see you sendin' me clues They're in the way You make me move

  Demi Lovato

  Moving, Littles, Way

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• I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I’m a weak person, that I bruise easily, don’t you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It’s like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Mean, Thinking

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• The great events of life often leave one unmoved; they pass out of consciousness, and, when thinks of them, become unreal. Even the scarlet flowers of passion seem to grow in the same meadow as the poppies of oblivion. We reject the burden of their memory, and have anodynes against them. But the little things, the things of no moment, remain with us. In some tiny ivory cell the brain stores the most delicate, and the most fleeting impressions.

  Oscar Wilde

  Memories, Flower, Passion

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• Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot; fry them, boil them and eat them hot?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Wings, Bird, Hot

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We have lived in this world where little things are done for love and big things for money. Now we have Wikipedia. Suddenly big things can be done for love.

  Clay Shirky

  Wikipedia, Done, World

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• I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Two, Four, Littles

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• It's just that you're about to do something out of the ordinary. And after you do something like that, the everyday look of things might seem to change a little. Things may look different to you than they did before. But don't let appearances fool you. There's always only one reality.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality, Everyday, Ordinary

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jan 31, 2016

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• In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared.

  Katherine Dunham

  Inspirational, Knowing, Overcoming

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• Out there people are working and arguing and laughing, living their beautiful, terrible lives, falling in love and having babies and being bored out of their skulls and feeling depressed, then being consoled by some little thing like watching the patterns the light makes through the leaves of trees, casting shadows on the sidewalks. I remember the line from that poem now. Downward to darkness, on extended wings.

  Kim Addonizio

  Beautiful, Baby, Falling In Love

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• Did you dream of me?" he asked. "Yes," she admitted grudgingly. She had. She'd dreamed of his hands caressing her, of his mouth devouring her. His lush lips inched into a surprised but pleased smile. "You were naked," she told him. His grin spread; his eyes gleamed with satisfaction. "And tied up..." He arched his eye brows in smug expectation. "I did not know the idea of bondage would please you." "Oh, I love the idea of typing you up." She paused dramatically. "Just like in my dream, you'll be secured to an ant-hill and the little things will eat you alive.

  Gena Showalter

  Dream, Eye, Hands

  Gena Showalter (2012). “The Nymph King”, p.133, Harlequin

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• I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn't.The cliches apply-people are what count,life is precious,materialism is over rated, and the little things matter,live in the moment-and i can repeat them to you ad nauseam.you might listen, but you won't internalize.Tragedy hammers it hm.Tragedy etches into your soul.You might not be happier.But you will be better.

  Harlan Coben

  People, Soul, Live In The Moment

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• If you had your way you’d pass a law to abolish all the little jobs, the little things. But then you’d leave yourselves nothing to do between the big jobs and you’d have a devil of a time thinking up things to do so you wouldn’t go crazy. Instead of that, why not let nature show you a few things? Cutting grass and pulling weeds can be a way of life, son.

  Ray Bradbury

  Weed, Jobs, Crazy

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• To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Cute, Everyday, Excellence

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.645, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• It's such a silly little thing, the heart.

  Ned Vizzini

  Silly, Heart, Littles

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• I know what it’s like to be distracted. To seek out distractions. To exhaust yourself doing every other little thing rather than face a blank page

  Rainbow Rowell

  Littles, Pages, Faces

  Rainbow Rowell (2013). “Fangirl”, p.147, Pan Macmillan

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• As you'll come to know, the closer you get to your goal, the more it draws you in; success feeds on success. It's like a gravitational pull. Once you get into a rhythm, it's hard to stop. You achieve big visions by doing the little things every day and looking at them in a positive focus.

  Shawn Phillips

  Military, Goal, Focus

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• I try to maintain a positive attitude at all times, because clients notice little things like that, and if you're frowning and crying all the time and saying "why? why?", they get worried.

  John Swartzwelder

  Attitude, Trying, Frowning

  John Swartzwelder (2004). “The Time Machine Did It”

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• One can get just as much exultation in losing oneself in a little thing as in a big thing. It is nice to think how one can be recklessly lost in a daisy.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Time, Nice, Thinking

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1973). “BRING ME A UNICORN”

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• There's the perception Danni Minogue is the sweetest little thing in the world but she's not... she's got balls of steel.

  Sharon Osbourne

  Funny, Dumb, Perception

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• My life has crept so long on a broken wing Through cells of madness, haunts of horror and fear, That I come to be grateful at last for a little thing.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Gratitude, Grateful, Cells

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 3, sect. 6, st. 1

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• The way to succeed is never quit. That's it. But really be humble about it. ... You start out lowly and humble and you carefully try to learn an accretion of little things that help you get there.

  Alex Haley

  Time, Humble, Trying

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• Man's sensitivity to the little things and insensitivity to the greatest are the signs of a strange disorder.

  Blaise Pascal

  Men, Littles, Strange

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• It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Life, Motivational, Time

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