Littles Quotes - Page 166

The search of our future being is but a needless, anxious, and haste to be knowing, sooner than we can, what, without all this solicitude, we shall know a little later.

No creature smarts so little as a fool.

I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.

Avoid Extremes; and shun the fault of such Who still are pleas'd too little or too much.

Learn of the little nautilus to sail, Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

The shock of any trauma, I think changes your life. It's more acute in the beginning and after a little time you settle back to what you were. However it leaves an indelible mark on your psyche.

Certainly the heart has always something to tell about the future to those who listen to it. But what does the heart know? Scarce a little of what has already happened.

As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries.

There are actually two approaches to reside your daily life. One is as if absolutely nothing is really a miracle. The other is as if every little thing is a wonder

He who finds a thought that lets us a little deeper into the eternal mystery of nature has been granted great peace.

I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God.

I've always felt like I work in a small little area that doesn't represent anything like the rest of society.

It's a sad world we live in when a human being leaves so little of a mark that no one even realizes it when he's gone

I had to be a grown-up when I should have been a little boy, and now that I'm a grown-up my little-boyness has exploded out of me. I've lived my life backwards.

Little did I know that the last words I would say on WNBC would be the last ones anyone would say.

Happiness has little to do with what is going on around you, and a lot to do with what is going on inside you.

Man is a little bit better than his reputation, and a little bit worse

There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor.

How frightful a thing it is for the preacher when he becomes accustomed to his work, when his sense of wonder departs, when he gets used to the unusual, when he loses his solemn fear in the presence of the High and Holy One; when, to put it bluntly, he gets a little bored with God and heavenly things.

I did a little bit to raise the dignity and recognition of the greatness of African-American music.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

the audience is the controlling factor in the actor's life. It is practically infallible, since there is no appeal from its verdict. It is a little like a supreme court composed of irresponsible minors.

A man when he is making up to anybody can be cordial and gallant and full of little attentions and altogether charming. But when a man is really in love he can't help looking like a sheep.

I started feeling this little lump in my throat, like you would feel if you have swollen glands or something like that, like you'd feel if you have a cold, so I didn't really think it was anything.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.