Smallest Quotes - Page 24

• There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.

  Machado de Assis

  Ideas, Giving, Legs

  Machado de Assis (1994). “Dom Casmurro”, Penguin Classics

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• It is hard for me to imagine that I felt good about behaving like that. I also remember that the smallest gesture of affection would bring a lump to my throat, whether it was directed at me or at someone else. Sometimes all it took was a scene in a movie. This juxtaposition of callousness and extreme sensitivity seemed suspicious even to me.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Gestures, Juxtaposition, Affection

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.89, Vintage

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• She didn't even have to smile, and she rarely did outside her house--it was the eyes, her dancer's carriage, the way she seemed to deliberate over the smallest movement of her body.

  Alice Sebold

  Eye, House, Dancer

  Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.64, Pan Macmillan

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• Remember also that it is not knowledge but the yearning for knowledge that makes for a complete, accomplished man. Such a man does not stand still but perseveres in the face of adversity, nor does he remain untouched by the pain cause by absence. On the contrary, he recognizes himself in each cry, uttered or repressed, in the smallest rift, in the most pressing need.

  Elie Wiesel

  Pain, Adversity, Men

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• Lady Katsa, is it?" "Yes, Lord Prince." "I've heard you have one eye green as the Middluns grasses, and the other eye blue as the sky." "Yes, Lord Prince." "I've heard you can kill a man with the nail of your smallest finger." She smiled. "Yes, Lord Prince." "Does it make it easier?" "I don't understand you." "To have beautiful eyes. Does it lighten the burden of your Grace, to know you have beautiful eyes?

  Kristin Cashore

  Beautiful, Eye, Men

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• You have been told that, even like a chain, you are as weak as your weakest link. This is but half the truth. You are also as strong as your strongest link. To measure you by your smallest deed is to reckon the power of ocean by the frailty of its foam. To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Strong, Ocean

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• She believed not in divine salvation but in the proposition that we poor mortals are fully capable of saving ourselves, if conditions and inclinations are right, and the evidence of this potential is found in the smallest of gestures, like the uncertain resting of a large hand on a bony shoulder.

  Jeffery Deaver

  Hands, Saving, Gestures

  "Roadside Crosses: A Kathryn Dance Novel". Book by Jeffery Deaver, 2009.

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• He gets hurt by the smallest touch. It'll be okay, as long as there will finally be a day. Eventually, one day. It will be good if all our burdens would finally be released. I really hope you can do it. I hope you two can both live happily.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Hurt, Two, Long

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• Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Hurt, Words Hurt, Words Can Hurt

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• If he thinks he would harm Mirabelle, he would back away. But he does not yet understand when and how people are hurt. He doesn't understand the subtleties of slights and pains, that it is not the big events that hurt the most but rather the smallest questionable shift in tone at the end of a spoken word that can plow most deeply into the heart.

  Steve Martin

  Hurt, Pain, Heart

  "Shopgirl". Book by Steve Martin, October 11, 2000.

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• The totalitarians in the world are very, very small. Only the smallest part of humanity wishes and acts upon the destruction of others. The pluralists are far larger. Those of us who believe in a world where we live together - we're far larger. The problem is we haven't made our case compelling across the world yet.

  Eboo Patel

  Believe, Humanity, Wish

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly worthless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success...whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood.

  Bernhard Schlink

  Confidence, Insecure, Self

  Bernhard Schlink (2001). “The Reader”, p.67, Vintage

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• I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

  Oscar Wilde

  People, Hearing, Instinct

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

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• He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Reality, Fragility, Facts

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• The smallest sprout shows there is really no death. And if ever there was it led forward life, and does not wait at the end to arrest it.

  Walt Whitman

  Waiting, Doe, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.5, Wildside Press LLC

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• I don't care what the stars say about how small we are. One, even the smallest, weakest, most insignificant one, matters.

  Rick Yancey

  Life, Stars, Care

  Rick Yancey (2013). “The 5th Wave”, p.386, Penguin

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• You gotta face the hand you're dealt with and deal with it, and make your problems be the smallest part of who you are.

  Jack Gantos

  Hands, Faces, Problem

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• Each evening, I ached for the shelter of my tent, for the smallest sense that something was shielding me from the entire rest of the world, keeping me safe not from danger, but from vastness itself. I loved the dim, clammy dark of my tent, the cozy familiarity of the way I arranged my few belongings all around me each night.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Dark, Night, Vastness

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.86, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It's about living in the moment and appreciating the smallest things. Surrounding yourself with the things that inspire you and letting go of the obsessions that want to take over your mind. It is a daily struggle sometimes and hard work but happiness begins with your own attitude and how you look at the world.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Letting Go, Attitude, Struggle

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• Speech is a powerful master and achieves the most divine feats with the smallest and least evident body. It can stop fear, relieve pain, create joy, and increase pity

  Gorgias

  Pain, Powerful, Joy

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• The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Ants, Clams, Form

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• Though the biggest fault of the big man is tolerated easily, the smallest fault of the little man is not endured at all!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Littles, Faults

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• Now the smallest Particles of Matter may cohere by the strongest Attractions, and compose bigger Particles of weaker Virture.... There are therefore Agents in Nature able to make the Particles of Bodies stick together by very strong Attraction. And it is the Business of experimental Philosophy to find them out.

  Isaac Newton

  Strong, Philosophy, Together

  Sir Isaac Newton (2012). “Newton's Philosophy of Nature: Selections from His Writings”, p.172, Courier Corporation

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• What's more vulnerable than being naked, especially when you're out in the cold on the street? I agreed to it as long as I could pick the towel, and I picked the smallest, most floral towel I could find.

  Josh Hartnett

  Long, Naked, Towels

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• This is a—a proposal of marriage?” he asked me, and there was the very smallest trace of a smile at the corner of his mouth, something I had never seen before. “I suppose so,” I said, blushing again. “And, as you see, I’m doing it properly, on my knees.” “This would, however, be a partnership of equals you’re offering, I imagine?” “Undoubtedly.” (448-49)

  Juliet Marillier

  Offering, Mouths, Knees

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Son of the Shadows: Book Two of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.562, Macmillan

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