Littles Quotes - Page 11

• IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather. "You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?" YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Expression, Knowing

  Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson (2008). “The Folklore of Discworld”, Doubleday UK

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My spirits rose as I went deeper; into the forest; but I could not regain my former elasticity of mind. I found cheerfulness to be like life itself - not to be created by any argument. Afterwards I learned, that the best way to manage some kinds of pain fill thoughts, is to dare them to do their worst; to let them lie and gnaw at your heart till they are tired; and you find you still have a residue of life they cannot kill. So, better and worse, I went on, till I came to a little clearing in the forest.

  George MacDonald

  Pain, Lying, Tired

  George MacDonald (1858). “Phantastes: A Faerie Romance for Men and Women”, p.92

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The infant-inconvenience kicked in response, and Conall twitched at the sensation. “Active little pup, isn’t he?” “She,” corrected his wife. “As if any child of mine would dare be a boy.” It was a long-standing argument. “Boy,” replied Conall. “Any child as difficult as this one has been from the start must, perforce, be male.” Alexia snorted. “As if my daughter would be calm and biddable.” Conall grinned, catching one of her hands and bringing it in for a kiss, all prickly whiskers and soft lips. “Very good point, wife. Very good point.

  Gail Carriger

  Daughter, Children, Kissing

  5 Copy quote

• I always feel this pressure of being a strong and independent icon of womanhood, and without making it look my whole life is revolving around some guy. But loving someone, and being loved means so much to me. We always make fun of it and stuff. But isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?

  Julie Delpy

  Strong, Fun, Mean

  12 Copy quote

• It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life. The whole of his life was gliding on the strings--his last hopes, his charred past, his extinguished future. He played as he would never play again...When I awoke, in the daylight, I could see Juliek, opposite me, slumped over, dead. Near him lay his violin, smashed, trampled, a strange overwhelming little corpse.

  Elie Wiesel

  Dark, Past, Opposites

  4 Copy quote

• Maybe that's why a broken machine always makes me a little sad, because it isn't able to do what it was meant to do...Maybe it's the same with people," Hugo continued. "If you lose your purpose...it's like you're broken.

  Brian Selznick

  People, Broken, Purpose

  "The Invention of Hugo Cabret". Book by Brian Selznick, www.npr.org. 2007.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• A little slower, sweetheart. Cape Cod is freezing over.

  Rick Riordan

  Capes, Cape Cod, Sweetheart

  4 Copy quote

• Well in two months, it'd be sunbathing time. That made me smile. I enjoyed lying in the sun in a little bikini, timing myself carefully so I didn't burn. I loved the smell of coconut oil. And I don't want to hear any lectures about how bad tanning is for you. That's my vice. Everybody gets one.

  Charlaine Harris

  Lying, Two, Oil

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1177, Penguin

  29 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have something to tell you," he says. I run my fingers along the tendons in his hand and look back at him. "I might be in love with you." He smiles a little. "I’m waiting until I’m sure to tell you, though.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Love You, Hands

  8 Copy quote

• Great is God our Lord, great is His power and there is no end to His wisdom. Praise Him you heavens, glorify Him, sun and moon and you planets. For out of Him and through Him, and in Him are all things..... We know, oh, so little. To Him be the praise, the honor and the glory from eternity to eternity.

  Johannes Kepler

  Moon, Heaven, Honor

  42 Copy quote

• You got a little bit of an attitude, Mr. English, if you don't mind my saying so. I don't mind.

  Josh Lanyon

  Attitude, Mind, Bits

  4 Copy quote

• you're infamous, Tally. Everyone's terrified of you. The new system may have made the other cities nervous, but they seem to think my little gang of psychotic sixteen-year-olds is worse" - Cable to Tally

  Scott Westerfeld

  Thinking, Years, Cities

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Specials”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...the little man's total obliviousness to all forms of danger somehow made danger so discouraged that it gave up and went away.

  Terry Pratchett

  Men, Discouraged, Danger

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “The Light Fantastic: (Discworld Novel 2)”, p.28, Random House

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• leave it to him to get messed up with deaths little girl

  Larissa Ione

  Girl, Messed Up

  4 Copy quote

• Am I crazy Loretta?" "A little," she says. I glance up at her. "Sometimes we're called on to do crazy things.

  Donna VanLiere

  Crazy, Sometimes, Glances

  Donna VanLiere (2012). “The Good Dream”, p.125, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The busiest people I have known in my life always have time enough to do everything. Those who do nothing are always tired and pay no attention to the little amount of work they are required to do. They complain constantly that the day is too short. The truth is, they are afraid to fight the good fight.

  Paulo Coelho

  Tired, Fighting, People

  Paulo Coelho (1992). “The diary of a magus”, Harpercollins

  55 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everything‟s fine,” I said, with a tight smile. “Kiyo was just giving me his latest explanation about how my son is a terror to be feared.” Dorian scoffed. “Little Thundro? A terror? Hardly, unless perhaps we‟re discussing diapers.

  Richelle Mead

  Son, Giving, Diapers

  4 Copy quote

• He began it,” Cecily said, jerking her chin at Will, though she knew it was pointless. Jem, Will’s parabatai, treated her with the distant sweet kindness reserved for the little sisters of one’s friends, but he would always side with Will. Kindly, but firmly, he put Will above everything else in the world. Well, nearly everything.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sweet, Kindness, Little Sister

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• Enough! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The moss reprints more tenderly The hard types of the mason's knife, As Heaven's sweet life renews earth's life With which we're tired, my heart and I .... In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were loved, used, - well enough, I think, we've fared, my heart and I.

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  Sweet, Tired, Heart

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Illustrated)”, p.1259, Delphi Classics

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• Having said that, I must now admit that I was still afraid of human beings, and before I could meet even the customers in the bar I had to fortify myself by gulping down a glass of liquor. The desire to see frightening things—that was what drew me every night to the bar where, like the child who squeezes his pet all the harder when he actually fears it a little, I proclaimed to the customers standing at the bar my drunken, bungling theories of art.

  Osamu Dazai

  Art, Children, Night

  15 Copy quote

• Do you know who Karl Marx is? He is this strange little man, long dead, who lived his narrow little life, and somehow managed by the power of his wayward brain to lay hold upon millions of human lives!

  Anchee Min

  Men, Long, Brain

  9 Copy quote

• 1.Never put off till to-morrow what you can do to-day. 2.Never trouble another for what you can do yourself. 3.Never spend your money before you have it. 4.Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you. 5.Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold. 6.We never repent of having eaten too little. 7.Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly. 8.How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened. 9.Take things always by their smooth handle. 10.When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, a hundred.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Pain, Pride, Evil

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.402

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• It would be so great if it were possible to go through life without making a single mistake but there is no such path. Falling, tripping, losing the way, making mistakes, little by little, walking one step at a time, this is the only way.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Mistake, Fall, Would Be

  7 Copy quote

• It's different," you said. "You've made, Min, everything different for me. Everything's like coffee you made me try, better than I ever - or the places I didn't even know were right on the street, you know? I'm like this thing I saw when I was little, where a kid hears a noise under his bed and there's a ladder there that's never been there before, and he climbs down and, it's for kids I know, but this song starts playing..." Your eyes were traveling in the treey light.

  Daniel Handler

  Song, Coffee, Kids

  "Why We Broke Up". Book by Daniel Handler, December, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Everything that happens to us, good and bad, leaves a lasting impression in our souls. You take one part of that out, and you can completely rewrite something crucial about us. By and large, we're not shaped by the big things. It's the little, day-to-day moments that make us who we are. Who we're going to be. (Nekoda to Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Soul, Lasting Impressions, Who We Are

  5 Copy quote