Littles Quotes - Page 69

Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendships and intimacies … and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to "keep" by force of mere inertia.

We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

Every year I resolve to be a little less the me I know and leave a little room for the me I could be. Every year I make a note not to feel left behind by my friends and family who have managed to change far more than I.

Like I say, I don't think it'll be done perfectly. Maybe we'll end up with a little bit better [economy] system.

I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little puppet things.

Twenty-volume folios will never make a revolution. It’s the little pocket pamphlets that are to be feared.

If I let a little of the emotion out, all of it will come out, and it will never end.

I have my favourite fashion decade, yes, yes, yes: 60s. It was a sort of little revolution; the clothes were amazing but not too exaggerated.

Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family.

If you bring that scrappy fierceness with you it works until you get big, when really pushing all the way really feels uncomfortable...When you're the little guy that's lauded, that's heroic.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

Our beliefs in a rich future life are of little importance unless we coin them into a rich present life.

For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

Every man sees a little of himself in Rhett Butler.

He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience.

I hold a little fundraiser every day. Its called going to work.

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks.

If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.

The object in being on the spiritual path is not to have just a little influx of energy, but to be the energy itself - consciously.

You let him go alone? (Kat) Well, given the fact that it was in this time zone and there’s a little thing outside called the sun...yeah. Burnt-up Daimon wouldn’t be helpful to nobody, least of all me and my tailor. (Damien)

Underneath my outside face There's a face that none can see. A little less smiley, A little less sure, But a whole lot more like me.

With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

Never trust a pretty little liars even though they might be right.

While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.

I was raised on a little farm about 12 miles out of Portsmouth, Ohio.