Small Changes Quotes - Page 4

• It is a terrible thing, this kindess that human beings do not lose. Terrible, because when we are finally naked in the dark and cold, it is all we have. We who are so rich, so full of strength, we end up with that small change. We have nothing else to give.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Dark, Giving, Naked

  Ursula K. Le Guin (2000). “The Left Hand of Darkness”, p.120, Penguin

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• He's going to jail. He can't see. He can't hear. He can't take a leak that lasts under fifteen minutes. But he has an erection and all the other problems are small change. Next time around I'm coming back as a man. Priorities are clearly defined. Life is simple.

  Janet Evanovich

  Men, Simple, Jail

  Janet Evanovich (2010). “Seven Up: A Stephanie Plum Novel”, p.322, Macmillan

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• Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

  Dean Koontz

  Storm, World, Change For The Better

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Fear Nothing: A Novel”, p.327, Bantam

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• Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome and imaginative landscape, crowded with constant small changes of scene and full of little creeks winding with pools where shiners, crappies and catfish hover.

  Paul Engle

  Country, Iowa, Rolling

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• Words are the small change of thought.

  Jules Renard

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Jules Renard, Louise Bogan, Elizabeth Roget (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.22, Tin House Books

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• The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded and disbursed only when absolutely necessary. The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in Hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Lonely, Truth, Lying

  1922 Prejudices, 3rd series, ch.14.

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• Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things.

  Roger Enrico

  Creativity, Bigs, Tyranny

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