Littles Quotes - Page 70

Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.' But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector.

Im not crazy, Im just a little unwell.

I grew up thinking I had very little value. It's not something I felt I could share with my mom so it was all inside me.

I paint a little and keep sketchbooks because it has the effect of preventing me becoming lazy about looking. The subject could be anything.

And little blondie says, I want to be like him. I doubt it very much

I don't have to take a trip around the world or be on a yacht in the Mediterranean to have happiness. I can find it in the little things, like looking out into my backyard and seeing deer in the fields.

He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God.

Realize that little things lead to bigger things.

One should always be a little improbable.

It's good to have a little distance. If you discuss your love too much, it just damages it.

But can we please stop insisting that if low-wage workers earn a little bit more, unemployment will skyrocket and the economy will collapse? There is no evidence for it. The most insidious thing about trickle-down economics is not the claim that if the rich get richer, everyone is better off. It is the claim made by those who oppose any increase in the minimum wage that if the poor get richer, that will be bad for the economy. This is nonsense.

The little serpent has left, and the great serpent has come.

A little hope goes a long way.

We need to raise our voices a little more, even as they say to us, 'This is so uncharacteristic of you.' Invisibility is not a natural state for anyone.

I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.

When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more.

I'm just writin' about my little ol' love affair.

I got some very good advice once. That was: You're not talking to a reporter, you're talking to the public. We didn't hide things. They are a little more guarded now.

Never before, I suspect, have so many people been so rich to so little purpose.

[Television viewing] is a one-way transaction that requires the taking in of particular sensory material in a particular way, no matter what the material might be. There is, indeed, no other experience in a child's life that permits quite so much intake while demanding so little outflow.

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Many of us feel stress and get overwhelmed not because we're taking on too much, but because we're taking on too little of what really strengthens us.

Can my words distill for you a little sweetness, tender and caressing?

Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death; they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten.

We are all shitty little snowflakes dancing in the universe.