Littles Quotes - Page 105

My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.

He who would eat much must eat little, for by eating less he will live longer, and so be able to eat more.

Words are probes. Some reach very deep, some only to a little depth.

Changes in human conditions are brought about by the pioneering of the cleverest and most energetic men. They take the lead and the rest of mankind follows them little by little.

When you talk with famous scholars, the best thing is to pretend that occasionally you do not quite understand them. If you understand too little, you will be despised; if you understand too much, you will be disliked; if you just fail occasionally to understand them, you will suit each other very well.

We're all - all of us - a minute away from dying. If you're aware of that, life becomes a little more precious. Also, you have a slightly different outlook. It's not so much "gimme, gimme."

It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory.

A truly feminine woman should always retain a little air of mystery.

Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

Let's talk about a decision that women have to make every morning- Big purse or little purse?

I did, although I didn't read from page 1 to page 187 but I read chunks of it. I did a little bit of science when I was in the university so I was able to understand the graphs and pie charts and stuff like that. It was extremely dry.

That painter who has no doubts will achieve little.

Of mystery there is no end. Of clarity, there is precious little.

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

Conversation is a traffick; and if you enter into it, without some stock of knowledge, to ballance the account perpetually betwixtyou,--the trade drops at once: and this is the reasonwhy travellers have so little [good] conversation with natives,--owing to their [the natives'] suspicionthat there is nothing to be extracted from the conversationworth the trouble of their bad language.

Without fail, the days that I start off the right way with a little devotional time and putting God first. Those days are really good days.

Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived.

Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.

The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.

Playing with decks, for me, has always been about trying new things. I make it a point to keep trying different things, keep pushing it a little bit at a time.

I'm just singing about my own life. Singing about all the little stories in my life and the things I've been through.

It's kind of fun being the cute, little one. In fact, I'm finding it hard to grow out of that.

People have this impression that I'm a little kooky, but I'm actually very OCD.