It's not the pain I'm afraid of; I know about the pain. What I'm afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.
The things that change people's lives are usually an accumulation of small acts.
The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.
In a way, the political cartoon drawings are things that are small and have humor and a childhood aesthetic and are often stronger to spread an opinion.
All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small.
One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.
Human reason is a pin dancing on the head of an angel, so small is it in comparison to the Divine vastness that encircles us.
The Soviet Union was, by the 1970s and 1980s, relatively stable and predictable. Putin's Russia is much more volatile. Nuclear policy is really in the hands of one person, or a small group of people, instead of a huge party-state apparatus. The possibility of a mistake is greater now.
Never offend an enemy in a small way.
The world depends upon the small beating in your heart.
We cultivate a very small field for Christ, but we love it, knowing that God does not require great achievements but a heart that holds back nothing for self.
It is looking for the joys that come in small, precious packages and making the most of them, knowing that big packages of joy are few and far between.
There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment.
Genius has infused itself into nature. It indicates itself by a small excess of good, a small balance in brute facts always favorable to the side of reason.
The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
This is only a small part of the totality. From this island earth we see only a fragment of creation and its knowledge.
When we try to observe things that are very small, the act of observation itself will significantly disturb the state we are seeking to measure.
Small-scale fisheries should not be favoured over large-scale operations ebcause of romantic notions of rugged small operators battling both the elements and anonymous corporations. [They ought to be supported] because of the scientific evidence available to confirm the common-sense inference that local fishers, if given privileged access, will tend to avoid trashing their local stocks, while foreign fishers do not have such motivation.
We have 400,000 small businesses forming every year in this country. How great is that? They are employing themselves, they are potentially employing others. The bad news is, we have 470,000 going out of business every year. And why? They cite Obamacare.
In every community, whether large or small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times.