I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
Use the smallest word that does the job.
The smallest of actions is always better than the noblest of intentions.
Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was made from atoms - had the smallest idea of what was going on. It comes from the bawling and fearful infancy of our species, and is a babyish attempt to meet our inescapable demand for knowledge. Today the least educated of my children knows much more about the natural order than any of the founders of religion.
Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large.
We have the smallest navy since 1916, we have the lowest number of troops since the end of the Second World War. We've got to work with the congress and Donald Trump will, to rebuild our military and project American strength in the world.
She was on edge, feeling that she might snap or cry at the smallest provocation.
There is nothing worse than giving the longest of legs to the smallest of ideas.
You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.
If the subject's easy we may all be wise; What stands unfirm, the smallest force overthrows.
The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of.
Completely true to nature!' - what a lie: How could nature ever be constrained into a picture? The smallest bit of nature is infinite! And so he paints what he likes about it. And what does he like? He likes what he can paint!
The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.
The smallest detail can contribute to the whole, I think particularly with emotion, you want it to be as authentic as it can, whether its a artifact or a theatrical event. But the whole is the sum of so many images.
Yes, well I really hope I can make a difference, even in the smallest way. I am looking forward to helping as much as I can.
Even the smallest act of discipleship or the tiniest ember of belief can become a blazing bonfire of a consecrated life.
The resource of life is everywhere, even in the smallest of things and we're never very far from it.
Even the smallest thing can be enough to encourage someone who has decided to give up hope.
Our Navy is now the smallest it's been since, believe or not, World War I. Don't worry. It's going to soon be the largest it's been.
All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces. . . So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.