Littles Quotes - Page 280

We shrink from the contemplation of our dead bodies, forgetting that when dead they are no longer ours, and concern us as little as the hairs that have fallen from our heads.

Nothing requires so little mental effort as to narrate or follow a story. Hence everybody tells stories and the readers of stories outnumber all others.

Whom little things occupy and keep busy, are little men.

There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.

If we are disappointed that men give little heed to what we utter is it for their sake or our own?

You should know the ins and outs [of the marriage]. So it was nice to see a little bit of background.

Everyone has a right to be a little happy, asshole.

There is nothing wrong with saving the world, but it's a little boring.

I really wouldn't censor myself. But because it was on such a slower scale, I would throw things out, and I indulged the personal stuff as little flashes of truth. Little in-jokes for anyone who was paying particular attention.

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.

Let the thick curtain fall;I better know than allHow little I have gained,How vast the unattained.

The Side Effects of Dying in Your Pants isn't really funny… Alright, it's a little funny.

The Colonel's hand was so little, and I grabbed it tight, his cold seeping into me and my warmth into him. 'I memorized the populations,' he said.

I like to know the places I write about. I feel like it helps me ground the novel. My novels are 'realistic novels,' but they can also be fantastical, so it's nice to have a setting that grounds them a little bit.

The mace prodded Will in the back again. That little habit was starting to annoy him and he was tempted to take the weapon from the sergeant major and do a little prodding of his own.

I get always a little uptight when I hear politicians say how exceptional America is.

In some parts of the world there is very little tidal movement.

Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.

They think too little who talk too much.

Though truth and falsehood be Near twins, yet truth a little elder is.

Time with his old flail Beat me full sore; Till: Hold, I cried, I'll stand no more. Then I heard a wail And looking spied How love's little bow Had laid time low.

A man really living alone (alone mentally as well as physically) would have little or no occasion to reflect upon his past experience to extract its net meaning.

We have our own little heartbeat, too. We already have what I would call polyrhythms going on.

There's sometimes a little bit of a trap to limit yourself for an audience.

Relate to the little instead of relating to the big. The little is indomitable.