Littles Quotes - Page 78

Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.

...I would like to live a little bit longer in this beautiful concentration camp.

Who said anything about slicing you up? ... I just wanted to carve a little Z on your forehead-- nothing serious.

[Science doesn't deal with facts; indeed] fact is an emotion-loaded word for which there is little place in scientific debate.

Whenever we discover a dislike in us, toward any one, we should ever be a little suspicious of ourselves.

I want to meet a woman that will make me stop and listen to what she has to say. I want a woman who will make my jaw drop in awe. A woman that has little time for me. One who does not throw herself at me. One who respects herself who has a sense of herself. Where is she

Throughout my life, the scriptures have been a way for God to reveal things to me that are personal and helpful. When I was a little boy, I was given a small Bible. If I remember correctly, it was only the New Testament.

What we call little things are merely the causes of great things.

An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them is quite likely to dismiss his business. Success is the sum of detail. It might perhaps be pleasing to imagine oneself beyond detail and engaged only in great things, but as I have often observed, if one attends only to great things and lets the little things pass the great things become little; that is, the business shrinks.

You don't have to know much, just a little bit more than everybody else.

Be the weirdest little weird in all Weird Town.

I'd never touch anything. I think it's foolhardy to play around with the face that you've been given. To have a little snip or a tuck, I think, is really quite obscene.

An enthusiast broods over the oppression of a people till he fancies himself commissioned by Heaven to liberate them. He ventures the attempt, which ends in little else than his own execution.

All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon them. Even if you read little and say little but live the right way, forsaking craving, hatred and delusion, you will know the truth and find calmness and will show others the path.

Where I'm from we don't trust paper. Wealth is what's here on the premises. If I open a cupboard and see, say, thirty cans of tomato sauce and a five-pound bag of rice, I get a little thrill of well-being - much more so than if I take a look at the quarterly dividend report from my mutual fund.

I suppose sometimes the lack of privacy can be a little hard to deal with at times.

Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!

Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.

A little poison now and then: that makes for pleasant dreams. And a lot of poison at the end, for a pleasant death.

He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!

He [Jesus] speaks in parables, and though we have approached these parables reverentially all these many years and have heard them expounded as grave and reverent vehicles of holy truth, I suspect that many if not all of them were originally not grave at all but were antic, comic, often more than just a little shocking.

We speak little if not egged on by vanity.

Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.

Without action and fruit, all the theology in the world has little meaning.

I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.