Smallest Quotes - Page 2

• The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a
  world from the smallest part of a thing.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Artist, Tasks, World

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2012). “Auguste Rodin”, p.50, Parkstone International

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• Remember: even the smallest drop of God's strength is more than enough to cover our frailties, our shortcomings, and the places where we deem ourselves weak.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Remember, Enough, Weak

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Mar 12, 2016

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• Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is sharing in Eternity.

  Josef Pieper

  Steps, Eternity

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• I have learned that even the smallest house can be a home.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Home, House, I Have Learned

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• There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, but always something still smaller and something still larger.

  Anaxagoras

  Mathematics, Stills

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• I'm proud that I've been able to work with other artists to make sure that the smallest voices - the voices of our children - have a chance to be heard. Artists can reach, inspire, and motivate young people and leaders in a powerful way.

  Shakira

  Children, Powerful, Artist

  Source: www.americasquarterly.org

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• Advice, the smallest current coin.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Advice, Coins, Currents

  Cynic's Word Book (1906) p. 14

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• In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Greatness, Men, Names

  War and Peace bk. 9, ch. 1 (1865 - 1869) (translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude)

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• Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Kindness, Patriotic

  "Obama Weekly Address: President Calls On Americans To Rekindle 9/11 Unity". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2011.

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• I have observed gratitude to be a principle, that bears the smallest share in the hearts of those where it ought to be most strongly resident, so that I begin to imagine one half of the world don't understand the real etymology of the word.

  Charlotte Charke

  Gratitude, Real, Heart

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• We are so placid that the smallest tremor of objection is taken as a full-scale revolution.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Taken, Revolution, Scales

  Cynthia Ozick (1983). “Art & ardor: essays”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• The smallest hair throws its shadow.
  [Ger., Das kleinste Harr wirft seinen Schatten.]

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hair, Shadow, Trifles

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• Everything dies, from the smallest blade of grass to the biggest galaxy.

  Stephen R. Donaldson

  Blades, Grass, Galaxy

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  The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.

  Bertrand Russell

  Play, Creative, Life Is

  Bertrand Russell, Richard A. Rempel (1995). “Pacifism and Revolution, 1916-18”, p.228, Psychology Press

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• It consists in a watchful, minute attention to the particulars of our state, and to the multitude of God's gifts, taken one by one. It fills us with a consciousness that God loves and cares for us, even to the least event and smallest need of life; and that we actually have received, and do now possess as our own, gifts which come direct from God. It is a blessed thought, that from our childhood God has been laying His fatherly hands upon us, and always in benediction; that even the strokes of his hands are blessings, and among the chiefest we have ever received.

  Henry Edward Manning

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Blessed

  "Sermons".

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• Thanks to the circus between my ears, I can seize upon the smallest disquieting observation and from it extrapolate a terror of cataclysmic proportions.

  Dean Koontz

  Anxiety, Ears, Circus

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Seize the Night”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• The cosmos is a vast living body, of which we are still parts. The sun is a great heart whose tremors run through our smallest veins. The moon is a great nerve center from which we quiver forever. Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Running, Heart, Moon

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.8485, Delphi Classics

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• You must not talk about 'ain't and can't' when you speak of this great wonderful world round you, of which the wisest man knows only the very smallest corner, and is, as the great Sir Isaac Newton said, only a child picking up pebbles on the shore of a boundless ocean.

  Charles Kingsley

  Nature, Children, Ocean

  Charles Kingsley (1864). “The Water-babies: A Fairy Tale for a Land-baby”, p.66

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• On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at a variable rate according to the nature, condition, or situation of the objects involved, but are nevertheless accomplished within a certain period of time. Time is insignificant and never a difficulty for Nature. It is always at her disposal and represents an unlimited power with which she accomplishes her greatest and smallest tasks.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Change, Nature, Science

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• Examining this water...I found floating therein divers earthy particles, and some green streaks, spirally wound serpent-wise...and I judge that some of these little creatures were above a thousand times smaller than the smallest ones I have ever yet seen, upon the rind of cheese, in wheaten flour, mould, and the like.

  Antonie van Leeuwenhoek

  Wise, Science, Water

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• Before you agree to do anything that might add even the smallest amount of stress to your life, ask yourself: What is my truest intention? Give yourself time to let a yes resound within you. When it's right, I guarantee that your entire body will feel it.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Time, Stress

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• I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

  Jimmy Jewel

  Funny, Climbing, Long

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• A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.

  Dan Millman

  Recovery, Tasks, Done

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• Though we may now think some sins light and little, if the Lord awaken the conscience, we shall feel even the smallest sin heavy upon our souls.

  Matthew Henry

  Thinking, Light, Soul

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• Loud is the summer's busy song
  The smallest breeze can find a tongue,
  While insects of each tiny size
  Grow teasing with their melodies,
  Till noon burns with its blistering breath
  Around, and day lies still as death.

  John Clare

  Summer, Song, Lying

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