Littles Quotes - Page 153

How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution.

It is little enough we know and the rest is darkness.

I prefer the finesse of French humour. English humour is more scathing, more cruel, as illustrated by Monty Python and Little Britain.

I never learned to cook; I was a little spoiled as far as that's concerned.

I learned to do with little. And that's why today, I only spend the taxpayers' money like I spend my own, which is seldom. The people of Mississauga love that.

I'm a little shot that just kept on shooting.

Being President is a little bit like riding a tiger. You have to keep riding, or else you will be swallowed up by it!

Sometimes it’s better to bend the law a little in special cases.

Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more.

I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.

Corruption exists because there is too much, not too little, market.

I have dreamed much and have done very little.

Let us stand a little taller, if you don't, you will never strengthen yourself

Easy was, like, spending time with Jennifer on set. Difficult stuff about character is, it was a little bit like just being the only one with no superhuman powers.

I thought I understood what was best. I knew too little and believed too soon.

I was a single mother when my child was little.

Children are like little angels - there's no way you can't love them.

It is the custom of Venice to paint on canvas, either because it does not split and is not worm-eaten, or because pictures can be made of any size desired, or else for convenience... so that they can be sent anywhere with very little trouble and expense.

I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.

The teacher's chief difficulty is poverty. He (or she) belongs to a badly paid profession. He cannot dress and live like a workman, but he is sometimes paid as little as an unskilled laborer.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.

I'm not drunk, just a little stoned.

Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes.