Littles Quotes - Page 235

When only a little can be done, doing it becomes the greatest you can do.

Ten Little Indians once again shows [Alexie] to be not just one of the West’s best, but one of the most brilliantly literate American writers, even funnier than Louise Erdrich, even more primal than Jim Harrison, and even more eloquent than Annie Proulx.

I wonder if kids growing up now are actually going to have that - if they're ever going to be able to unplug and have that ability to concentrate, or if it's just never going to happen for them. It's a little unnerving, frankly.

I tend toward the pessimistic end of the spectrum, and unfortunately there's little in human history to convince me that pessimism is unwarranted.

If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.

I know more English than Spanish, but I'm always a little embarrassed.

Reconciliation is one of the hardest words. We almost forget, but there's always a little group that can't.

I simply wanted to state that during this little slice of history, this is what happened and these were the good sides of it, these were the more dangerous sides of it, and this was the result.

It is but little of the world yet that hath heard the lost estate of mankind and of a Savior, Christ Jesus; and as yet the fullness of the gentiles has not come, and probably shall not until the downfall of the Papacy.

There is not one grain in the universe, either too much or too little, nothing to be added, nothing to be spared; nor so much as any one particle of it, that mankind may not be either the better or the worse for, according as it is applied.

I stopped taking notes on my Palm Pilot and started playing the little chess game.

God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones.

If I get two strikes, I'll go to a pitch maybe that will help induce that a little bit.

Oh, when I was a kid, I was poor. Christmas, I got no presents. Well, there was one Christmas, on our front lawn - Prancer and Dancer - they dropped off a little something.

That little green drink inspired hallucination is right!

Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.

I have such a little face.

I feel a little whirl of dislocation -- the trademark sensation of the world being more closely knit together than you expected

I promise you this: at the end of your days, you will discover that the things you now perceive to be the big things in your life will be seen as little things, and all those things that you now believe to be the little things, you will realize were really the big things.

Your attitude is perhaps a little unnecessarily rigorous," suggested Jack.

It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the one that must follow it.

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.

Very little worth knowing is taught by fear.

"There is no disputing about tastes," says the old saw. In my experience there is little else.