Littles Quotes - Page 308

I tend to stay out of the public eye a little, compared to some of my peers.

Save money on the big, boring stuff so that you have something left over for life's little pleasures.

I bear a little more than I can bear.

Part of flirting is that you tend to give each other a little extra slack to be obscure - to say things that are suggestive and nuanced, rather than clear and comprehensible, things you wouldn't put up with in an essay or something written by a stranger - and that can be so exciting.

Next to him lay his violin, trampled, an eerily poignant little corpse.

I get a little too obsessive with work.

Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience.

If a great opportunity arises, you can't say no. But you do have to pick and choose a little more.

It is because we underrate thought, because we do not see what a great element it is in religious life, that there is so little of practical and consistent religion among us.

When I meet people for the first time, I always put on my glasses because I feel like that's a little something extra between me and them. It's like the Laurence Dunbar poem "We Wear the Mask."

Little things that run the world.

If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.

We've got crazy little sites going up against established media behemoths.

I'm ultimately satisfied that we know a little bit more about how the world really works.

It is a little surprising given the strength of the economy that there is a perception - at least among some of the public - that the economy is not very good.

Obama and his associates are fantastic campaigners but have little ability or skill to govern.

A mountain with a wolf on it stands a little taller.

The 'human situation,' in all its guises, is what good films are all about, and technical skill counts for nothing if it is used only to manufacture films which have little to do with humanity.

A person who knows all the answers, has an opinion on everything, has a certainty backed up by rational argument, has very little possibility of further progress. Such a person is unlikely to walk away from a discussion with anything more than a reaffirmation of how right he or she has been all along.

If aught be worse than failure from overstress of a life's prime purpose, it is to sit down content with a little success.

Whoso neglects a thing which he suspects he ought to do, because it seems to him too small a thing, is deceiving himself; it is not too little, but too great for him, that he doeth it not.

Maybe it's a little more pertinent now since the whole concept of evolution is being questioned by the know-nothing Republican right. Yes, maybe the play's a little more pertinent now.

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.

Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.