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.
I usually write about ordinary people and ordinary things, but Paul Farmer is the least ordinary person I've ever met. . . He's the leader of a small group of people who hope to cure a sick world, and I hope my book can help in some small way.
We succeed, not alone by the laborious exertions of our faculties, be they small or great, but by the regular, thoughtful and systematic exercise of them.
If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.
Habitual caution ties and binds us; it is as if we were dressed always in clothes and shoes that were several sizes too small.
The near explains the far. The drop is a small ocean. A man is related to all nature. This perception of the worth of the vulgar is fruitful in discoveries. Goethe, in this very thing the most modern of the moderns, has shown us, as none ever did, the genius of the ancients.
The ethics of plagiarism have turned into the narcissism of small differences: because journalism cannot own up to its heavily derivative nature, it must enforce originality on the level of the sentence.
Words are the small change of thought.
I would like the people that buy my clothes to understand that for me it’s one small piece of art.
Tis ever thus when favours are denied; All had been granted but the thing we beg: And still some great unlikely substitute-- Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good-- Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon.
The Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they are absolutely right about this. It is a tragedy of two peoples claiming the same very small country - very small, about the size of New Jersey. And both of them are right. Both of them have no other homeland as peoples. As individuals, maybe, but not as a people.
By learning to accept the small things immediately as they happen, you can be free of having to react to things at all. You still can respond when action is needed, but you can be free, internally, of events.
After 911, the amount of applicants the FBI received increased exponentially. Whereas you used to require a college degree, and it was a small group of people who were just out of college, after 911, it changed.
It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and a plan of action.
The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.
He is invited to do great things who receives small things greatly.
I think paranoia goes from generation to generation. It's convenient to imagine that there's a few people controlling everything, that way it's manageable and small. But that's not life, life is messy.
Only the small things in life are important
Remember, Lord, my ship is small and thy sea is so wide!
The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.