Littles Quotes - Page 299

Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin, and then, like him, shall have to labor with the current of opinion, when COMPELLED perhaps, to do what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance.

For decades, free nations tolerated oppression in the Middle East for the sake of stability. In practice, this approach brought little stability and much oppression, so I have changed this policy.

[Attorney General] would have to be something where I felt he really needed me and not that I'd be the only one that could do it, but maybe that I could do it a little bit different or a little bit better than somebody else.

I'm very happy - if I can do even a little bit of work to get the short story out more, I'm thrilled.

I have nothing. My model is I have nothing figured out, and I'm starting with some little nugget and hoping that it will talk back to me enough to let it grow.

I have this tendency to take a little bit of questionable knowledge and riff on it.

I have a lot of theories about the beneficial effects of fiction, but I'm always trying to get away from them a little bit.

I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.

If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn

That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.

I just need to rest, that’s all, to rest and sleep some, and maybe die a little.

An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.

His dagger was out, poised at her throat. “Sing, little bird. Sing for your little life.

Nearly all our ills are the result of neglect in some way or other. And this truth may be said to apply to the ills of nations as well. Negligence is at the bottom of all decay. And decay always starts by showing little signs-or warnings. Then is the time to show interest and to be alert. There is nothing quite so easy as to neglect, and nothing quite so difficult as to repair that negligence. Negligence always carries a high price. It costs nothing to avoid it!

There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.

Emotionally involving the audience is easy. Anybody can do it blindfolded: get a little kitten and have some guy wring its neck.

There is a human striving for self-transcendence. It's part of what makes us human. With all of our flaws we want to go a little bit further than we've gone before and maybe even further than anyone else has gone before.

He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]

Great businesses turne on a little pinne.

From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever. [From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever.]

Great business turns on a little pin.

To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.

The great put the little on the hooke.

That which sufficeth is not little.

He that hath little is the lesse durtie.