Tiny Quotes - Page 2

• It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

  Robert Kennedy

  Change, Hope, Courage

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

  233 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the visible world, the Milky Way is a tiny fragment; within this fragment, the solar system is an infinitesimal speck, and of this speck our planet is a microscopic dot. On this dot, tiny lumps of impure carbon and water, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded.

  Bertrand Russell

  Years, Water, Elements

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.19, Psychology Press

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

  Robert Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

  86 Copy quote

  Show source

• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  E. F. Schumacher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Courage

  54 Copy quote

• One can furnish a room very luxuriously by taking out furniture rather than putting it in.

  Francis Jourdain

  Simple, Simplicity, Rooms

  "The Simple Guide to a Minimalist Life" by Leo Babauta, 2009.

  46 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are two ways to be rich: One is by acquiring much, and the other is by desiring little.

  Jackie French Koller

  Two, Littles, Way

  49 Copy quote

• Life is a peephole, a single tiny entry onto a vastness--how can I not dwell on this brief, cramped view of things? This peephole is all I've got!

  Yann Martel

  Views, Vastness, Life Is

  Yann Martel (2015). “Life of Pi - CANCELED”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.

  Carl Sagan

  Space, Overcoming, Threshold

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.73, Ballantine Books

  20 Copy quote

  Show source

• I watch for emergent technologies and pay attention to what people say they'll be good for, then see what we actually use them for. It never occurred to me that a tiny telephone with a wireless transceiver would do whatever it is that it's done to us.

  William Gibson

  Technology, People, Done

  Interview with Amy Cavanaugh, www.avclub.com. October 14, 2011.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Life, Simple, Greed

  Edwin Way Teale (1953). “Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year”

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• It was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were supposed to be together ... and I knew it.

  Tom Hanks

  Love, Romantic, Together

  44 Copy quote

• In string theory, all particles are vibrations on a tiny rubber band; physics is the harmonies on the string; chemistry is the melodies we play on vibrating strings; the universe is a symphony of strings, and the "Mind of God" is cosmic music resonating in 11 dimensional hyperspace.

  Michio Kaku

  Play, Symphony, Mind

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. March 7, 2014.

  229 Copy quote

  Show source

• As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Peace, Simple

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Quotable Thoreau: An A to Z Glossary of Inspiring Quotations from Henry David Thoreau”, p.88, BookBaby

  38 Copy quote

  Show source

• Mathematics directs the flow of the universe, lurks behind its shapes and curves, holds the reins of everything from tiny atoms to the biggest stars.

  Edward Frenkel

  Stars, Curves, Atoms

  Edward Frenkel (2014). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.5, Basic Books

  22 Copy quote

  Show source

• The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things.

  Elise M. Boulding

  Happiness, Lying, Simple

  65 Copy quote

• I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.

  Pablo Neruda

  Water, Bird, Rising

  10 Copy quote

• The idea of tiny changes cumulated over many steps is an immensely powerful idea, capable of explaining an enormous range of things that would be otherwise inexplicable.

  Richard Dawkins

  Powerful, Ideas, Steps

  Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.95, W. W. Norton & Company

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.

  Mother Teresa

  Writing, Hands, Likes

  173 Copy quote

• I am a tiny seashell
  that has secretly drifted ashore
  and carries the sound of the ocean
  surging through its body.

  Edward Hirsch

  Ocean, Sound, Body

  Edward Hirsch (2008). “Lay Back the Darkness: Poems”, Knopf

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My company mascot is the bumblebee. Because of its tiny wings and heavy body, aerodynamically the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly. But the bumblebee doesn't know that, so it flies anyways.

  Mary Kay Ash

  Inspiration, Wings, Bumblebees

  10 Copy quote

• You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.

  Robert Breault

  Respect, Morning, Integrity

  11 Copy quote

• Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he's wrong.

  Chad Harbach

  Life, Believe, World Issues

  4 Copy quote

• There's also something about your bed; it's sort of a symbol of yourself and of your marriage, if you're married. Making your bed doesn't seem to be an important thing in a happy life, and yet it can be that tiny foothold into a more orderly life that sometimes people need.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Happy Life, People, Important

  Source: www.goodhousekeeping.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know," he said with unusual somberness, "I asked my father once why kenders were little, why we weren't big like humans and elves. I really wanted to be big," he said softly and for a moment he was quiet. "What did your father say?" asked Fizban gently. "He said kenders were small because we were meant to do small things. 'If you look at all the big things in the world closely,' he said, 'you'll see that they're really made up of small things all joined together.' That big dragon down there comes to nothing but tiny drops of blood, maybe. It's the small things that make the difference.

  Margaret Weis

  Father, Dragons, Blood

  Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman (2006). “Dragonlance Chronicles”

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Tiny steps will get you to your goal months and months sooner. A little is better than a lot.

  Martha Beck

  Goal, Littles, Months

  "Oprah’s Life Coach on Achieving Your Goals" by Jean Fain, L.I.C.S.W., M.S.W., www.huffingtonpost.com. September 28, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source