Littles Quotes - Page 322

We were suddenly getting big, with burgeoning capabilities on all sides, but very clumsy, knew we were on some kind of ride, and things changing fast, but with very little idea of what was going on.

If you are alone, tell some stories to yourself. This is a different kind of pleasure and it has, indeed, its reward. I have tasted a little of everything, and I have truly never enjoyed anything more.

I have always felt that the surest way to qualify for the job just ahead is to work a little harder than any one else on the job one is holding down.

All you require is adore. But just a little chocolate at times will not damage.

Life is too short not to live it up a little!

Merit, God knows, is very little rewarded.

So near are the boundaries of panegyric and invective, that a worn-out sinner is sometimes found to make the best declaimer against sin. The same high-seasoned descriptions which in his unregenerate state served to inflame his appetites, in his new province of a moralist will serve him (a little turned) to expose the enormity of those appetites in other men.

I indeed had only one scene, one speech, one little speech, but it was with Robin Williams.

And let me say only this one word more: that the little things that a little Christian does are not any more than the larger things that an older Christian does.

Publishers give you deadlines for those last phases of production that are perfectly comfortable for them. So, to whatever extent I can, I like to push those to give me a little more time, and make it so that they're as uncomfortable as I am.

Captain Cuttle, like all mankind, little knew how much hope had survived within him under discouragement, until he felt its death-shock.

Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.

We went our several ways," said Lady Dedlock, "and had little in common even before we agreed to differ. It is to be regretted, I suppose, but it could not be helped.

-Why don't you cry again, you little wretch? -Because I'll never cry for you again.

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable commiseration, as when he is in pursuit of his own hat.

You are hard at work madam ," said the man near her. Yes," Answered Madam Defarge ; " I have a good deal to do." What do you make, Madam ?" Many things." For instance ---" For instance," returned Madam Defarge , composedly , Shrouds." The man moved a little further away, as soon as he could, feeling it mightily close and oppressive .

Wealth is a relative thing since those who have little and want less are richer than those who have much but want more.

Theory is worth but little, unless it can explain its own phenomena, and it must effect this without contradicting itself; therefore, the facts are sometimes assimilated to the theory, rather than the theory to the facts.

The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.

The security light made me feel safe, though I knew that was an illusion. If there's light, you can just see what's coming for you a little more clearly.

Sookie, my little bullet-sucker" Eric, my big bullshitter

I'm almost weeping when I'm painting my daughter. I've been thinking she won't be little for much longer.

Any teen gets into a little trouble here and there. It's not hard to find trouble when you're looking for it as a kid.

To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

For each of us has a perch on the tree. After we are gone, that perch is marked by a notch, permanent, yes, but with its edges muting over time, assuming the tree is ever growing. Years from now someone can see that you were here, or there, and although you had little conception or care for the wider branching, in the next life there might be a sigh of wonder at how quietly flourishing it all was, if never majestic.