Littles Quotes - Page 107

Experience has taught me that you have to improve all the time-little bit by little bit-and not keeping starting everything from new.

Every little thing counts in a crisis.

Even in chimps there is true altruistic behaviour; behaviour that doesn't fit into the sociobiological model that says you either help a close relative and thereby your own genes, or you help somebody else now in return for their help in the future. When a very high-ranking male chimpanzee rescues a little orphan, saving his life, that kind of explanation doesn't work.

And that's an even greater love: to love somebody when he's a little...worn at the edges. —Teddy Bear

Elvis was, at least the times I was around him, Elvis was a practical joker. He was always, had some little mischievous something going.

Eleonora Duse said, "Tell me about Deirdre and Patrick," and made me repeat to her all their little sayings and ways, and show her their photos, which she kissed and cried over. She never said "Cease to grieve", but she grieved with me, and, for the first time since their death, I felt I was not alone.

Put no inscription over the grave, except the date of my birth and my death; and, wherever I am buried, let the funeral be perfectly private, with as few persons attending, and as little show and expense as possible.

Your work is to find healing. And I find, for me, it's a little bit at a time, and eventually it's barely there. And the journey is finding what works for you and doing it.

If, one day, I should offend God in any way, or grow remiss, though ever so little, in that which concerns His holy service and glory, I solemnly implore Him, rather let me die.

Then clear on a flute of purest gold A sweet little fairy played. And wonderful fairy tales she told and marvelous music made.

You got to get used to somebody, when you're acting or going through a scene, somebody yelling, "Do it a little louder!" OK, you do it a little louder.

By approaching my problems with "What might make things a little better?" rather than "What is the solution?" I avoid setting myself up for certain frustration. My experience has shown me that I am not going to solve anything in one stroke; at best I am only going to chip away at it.

You are giving a little man a biscuit to eat, and you put a barrel of flour more taxes on top of his head to carry.

Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!

Happiness is a state of mind, and depends very little on outward circumstances.

It's a little uncomfortable doing love scenes in armor, but, you know, when the heat's on, the heat's on.

Keep working on a plan. Make no little plans. Make the biggest plan you can think of and spend the rest of your life carrying it out.

So utterly at variance is Destiny with all the little plans of men.

A lot of Democrats are not that upset with Howard Dean. Howard Dean gets out here and he says these inflammatory things, and he doesn't apologize. He doesn't back down a little bit.

I really like that homosexuality is a little bit of an existential puzzle.

There are a million little things, but one of the best ways to get to know characters is to just put them in situations and see what they say.

Except physically, we know little more about Garbo than we know about Shakespeare.