Quotes about Small
The heart beneath the breastbone pumping. The blood on its appointed rounds. Life in small places, narrow crannies. In the leaves, the toad's pulse. The delicate cellular warfare in a waterdrop. A dextrocardiac, said the smiling doctor. Your heart's in the right place. Weathershrunk and loveless. The skin drawn and split like an overripe fruit.
- Cormac McCarthy
We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
The truly and deliberately evil men are a very small minority; it is the appeaser who unleashes them on mankind.
- Ayn Rand
Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss Can never hope to wage a Global Mission. No Holy Wars for them. The most the small Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.
- Robert Frost
It is like employing a small tool on big constructions, if we use human wisdom in the hunt for knowledge of reality.
- Gregory of Nazianzus
The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.
- St Bonaventure
It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.
- John Piper
Nothing is small, in fact; any one who is subject to the profound and penetrating influence of nature knows this.
- Victor Hugo
Large countries'] patriotism is different: they are buoyed by their glory, their importance, their universal mission. The Czechs loved their country not because it was glorious but because it was unknown; not because it was big but because it was small and in constant danger. Their patriotism was an enormous compassion for their country.
- Milan Kundera
She was a ship of the old school, rather small if anything; with an old-fashioned
- Herman Melville
Live your life while you have it. Life is a splendid gift. There is nothing small in it. Far the greatest things grow by God's law out of the smallest. But to live your life, you must discipline it.
- Florence Nightingale
Mother Teresa offers us that brilliant glimpse of hope that lies in little things: "We can do not great things, only small things with great love. It is not how much you do but how much love you put into doing it." Above our front door, we have hung a sign that says, "Today . . . small things with great love (or don't open the door).
- Shane Claiborne