Little Things Quotes - Page 26

• Once practice starts, we work hard, and that's the best conditioning there is. Everything counts. Every little thing counts. Run hard, play hard, go after the ball hard, guard hard. If you play soft (what I call signing a 'non-aggression pact' with your teammates), you won't ever get into shape.

  Pete Carril

  Basketball, Running, Hard Work

  Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.153, U of Nebraska Press

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• I'm really good at being sarcastic with guys. That's the best way to hang out with them, because that's what guys . They don't want the quiet, prissy little things.

  Jessica Alba

  Sarcastic, Guy, Want

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• Few of us will do the spectacular deeds of heroism that spread themselves across the pages of our newspapers in big black headlines. But we can all be heroic in the little things of everyday life. We can do the helpful things, say the kind words, meet our difficulties with courage and high hearts, stand up for the right when the cost is high, keep our word even though it means sacrifice, be a giver instead of a destroyer. Often this quiet, humble heroism is the greatest heroism of all.

  Wilferd Peterson

  Hero, Heart, Humble

  Wilferd Arlan Peterson, Xizhen Wu (1978). “當代的生活藝術”

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• Getting a burp out of your little thing when she needs it is probably the greatest satisfaction I've come across at this point in my life.

  Brad Pitt

  Baby, Needs, Littles

  "My List" by Brad Pitt, www.esquire.com. October 1, 2006.

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• I need to find a church on Sunday. I need to say 'please' and 'thank you,' 'yes sir' and 'no ma'am.' Do the little things because that's part of being an adult.

  Joe Nichols

  Thank You, Sunday, Church

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• God help us! it is a foolish little thing, this human life, at the best; and it is half ridiculous and half pitiful to see what importance we ascribe to it, and to its little ornaments and distinctions.

  Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey

  Life, Ornaments, Half

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• If the Queen can reject the advice of a minister on a little thing like a postage stamp, what would happen if she rejected the advice of the Prime Minister on a major matter? If the Crown personally can reject advice, then, of course, the whole democratic facade turns out to be false

  Tony Benn

  Queens, Advice, Crowns

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• All you want is to be happy. All your desires, whatever they may be, are longing for happiness. Basically, you wish yourself well...desire by itself is not wrong. It is life itself, the urge to grow in knowledge and experience. It is choices you make that are wrong. To imagine that some little thing-food, sex, power, fame-will make you happy is to decieve oneself. Only something as vast and deep as your real self can make you truly and lastingly happy.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Sex, Real, Self

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• When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told New Yorkers, "I want you to emerge stronger from this." My words were partially a hope and partially an observation that people in New York City handle big things better than little things. I could not be more proud of the way my city responded.

  Rudy Giuliani

  New York, Patriotic, Cities

  "9/11 was 'worst day' and 'the best day'" by Rudy Giuliani, usatoday30.usatoday.com. September 7, 2011.

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• All good work is done the way ants do things: Little by little.

  Lafcadio Hearn

  Work, Done, Littles

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• This small little thing, which was started to give people a way of life, with love and dedication, shall prevail in the coming change of the Age.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Dedication, People, Giving

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• [At the end of the story, its main character, Tom] is now a great man of science, and can plan railroads, and steam-engines, and electric telegraphs, and rifled guns, and so forth; and knows everything about everything, except why a hen's egg don't turn into a crocodile, and two or three other little things that no one will know till the coming of the Cocqcigrues.

  Charles Kingsley

  Knowledge, Character, Science

  Charles Kingsley (1872). “The Water-babies a Fairy Tale for a Land-baby by the Rev. Charles Kingsley”, p.385

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• The history of men of science has one peculiar advantage, as it shows the importance of little things in producing great results. Smeaton learned his principle of constructing a lighthouse, by noticing the trunk of a tree to be diminished from a curve to a cyclinder ... and Newton, turning an old box into a water-clock, or the yard of a house into a sundial, are examples of those habits of patient observation which scientific biography attractively recommends.

  Robert Aris Willmott

  Science, Men, Curves

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• Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.

  Euripides

  Gossip, Littles, Tongue

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

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• Lord, make us mindful of the little things that grow and blossom in these days to make the world beautiful for us.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Beauty, Beautiful, Religion

  W. E. B. Du Bois (1980). “Prayers for Dark People”

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• Just because you’re allowed to use magic now you don’t have to whip your wands out for every tiny little thing!

  J. K. Rowling

  Magic, Use, Littles

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, p.80, Pottermore

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• Your patience may have long to wait,Whether in little things or great,But all good luck, you soon will learn,Must come to those who nobly earn.Who hunts the hay-field overWill find the four-leaved clover.

  Sarah Orne Jewett

  Good Luck, Long, Waiting

  Sarah Orne Jewett, “A Four-Leaved Clover”

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• The atom has taught me that the little things do count - most.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Atoms, Littles, Taught

  "Meditations: Food For The Soul (June 5)". Book by Sri Chinmoy, 1971.

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• I began to write in the first place because I expected everything to change, and I wanted to have things in writing the way they had been. Just a little things, of course. A little of my little.

  William Saroyan

  Writing, Firsts, Littles

  William Saroyan (1964). “One day in the afternoon of the world”

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• Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, Which clouds the colour of domestic life; The sober comfort, all the peace which springs From the large aggregate of little things; On these small cares of daughter, wife or friend, The almost sacred joys of home depend.

  Hannah More

  Daughter, Spring, Women

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.205

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• It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Winning, Men, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 561), 1895.

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• Small things are best: Grief and unrest To rank and wealth are given; But little things On little wings Bear little souls to Heaven.

  Frederick William Faber

  Grief, Wings, Heaven

  Frederick William Faber (1857). “Poems ... Second edition”, p.198

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• I've watched other directors as an actor and I picked up little things here and there about cameras, [but] I wouldn't consider myself the guy you'd want to hire to do Star Trek.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Stars, Guy, Cameras

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In that film Love Story, there's a line, "Love means never having to say you're sorry." That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you're sorry every day for some little thing or other.

  Ray Bradbury

  Love, Sorry, Mean

  "Ray Bradbury, The Art of Fiction No. 203". Interview with Sam Weller, www.theparisreview.org. 2010.

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• I have always looked after the little things of my business; weightier matters will take care of themselves.

  Collis Potter Huntington

  Care, Littles, Matter

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