Littles Quotes - Page 89

Little more can reasonably be aimed at with respect to the people at large than to have them properly armed.

I'll make you so in love with me, that everytime our lips touch, you'll die a little death.

Many talk much, and indeed well, of what Christ has done for us: but how little is spoken of what he is to do in us! and yet all that he has done for us is in reference to what he is to do in us.

First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck.

The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.

How come the little things bother you when you are in a bad position? They don't bother you in good positions.

To contradict, even in little matters, is the supreme necessity of art today.

A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.*

It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy.

The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray.

Etiquette means behaving yourself a little better than is absolutely essential.

I'm not anybody's judge; I don't know what motivates people to do what they do. But I have a lot of admiration for anybody who can start with absolutely nothing and make a little something out of it.

Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.

Great talent has always a little madness mixed up with it.

Politicians have immense power to do harm to the economy. But they have very little power to do good.

I'm not proud to be me, I'm not excited to be me, but I find that I am me, and like most other individuals, I send out little signals; I tell everyone else how everything looks from where I am.

When a felon s not engaged in his employment, Or maturing his felonious little plans, His capacity for innocent enjoyment Is just as great as any honest mans.

We are bound first to imform ourselves concerning so great a matter as the revolt of millions of people- what they are struggling for, what they are struggling against, and how the struggle stands- from day to day...as best you can; and second, to spread this knowledge among others, and endeavor to do what little you can to awaken the consciousness and sympathy of others.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened.

Why is life so tragic; so like a little strip of pavement over an abyss. I look down; I feel giddy; I wonder how I am ever to walk to the end.

I'm very active on Twitter and Instagram. I'm always posting pictures from set, and little clues and teasing people with fun things. It's awesome!

Without the little ideas, there are no big ideas.

Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further.

I love Bach, I love Beethoven, I love Mozart, I love the Beatles, I love you know, Stockhausen, I love many things. But for some reason I come back to Elizabethan music because it's a little bit like the Beatles.