Top 1200 Little Hands Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Little by little deep inside us, the diamond shines, the eyes open, the dawn rises, we become what we already are.

After perhaps thirty meters, just as a soldier turned around, the girl was felled. Hands were clamped upon her from behind and the boy next door brought her down. He forced her knees to the road and suffered the penalty. He collected her punches as if they were presents. Her bony hands and elbows were accepted with nothing but a few short moans. He accumulated the loud, clumsy specks of saliva and tears as if they were lovely to his face, and more important, he was able to hold her down.

I'm a little embarrassed to say I'm a little bit of a soccer dad.

When I'm not working, I'm definitely a no-makeup girl. The most I ever do is a little tinted moisturizer and a little mascara and blush.

When you've got a lot of slaves at your command, you tend to get a little bit fat. You tend to get a little bit lazy. You tend to get a little incompetent because there's not much that you do for yourself anymore.

Wisdom is something that comes, little by little, through a lot of listening.

I am that guy who will say things that people seem to think is a little edgy, a little racy.

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a little patronage more so.

I want my job to include a little adventure, a little more of a heightened reality than what I'm actually living.

Men and women, they were beautiful and wild, all a little violent under their pleasant ways and only a little tamed.

It is a little bit surreal to know that you are in your own little spaceship, and a few inches from you is instant death.

Don't be afraid of putting on color, refine the work little by little.

Actors are always a little high at work. Acting is their drug. So when you put the brakes on, they're naturally a little disappointed.

The impositions that this government is trying to put on now, it's the typical death by 1,000 cuts. We'll take a little bit here, we'll take a little bit here, we'll take a little bit here. And it doesn't end the conversations for 25, 50 years. It starts the conversation again the next day what they're looking to take back.And really it's about freedoms.

I never was obsessed with comedians. When I was a little, little boy, I'd watch, like, George Carlin on 'Dinah Shore.'

Let's take care of the little things while they're still little.

I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked.

When you start getting a little more confident in the playbook, you can think a little bit less and just play.

At first I was a little leery to just post photos of my little girl all the time and kind of exploit her to the world.

Relate to the little instead of relating to the big. The little is indomitable.

Every now and then you have to be a little nasty, a little aggressive on the floor. That's part of being a basketball player.

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

I think I'm getting a little bit of Alzheimer's. Just a little.

Cinderella is a little edgy and a little rough around the edges.

Better than succeeding little by little is failing at one go.

It wasn’t me! Look at how little I am. I’m a little guy.

In the playoffs, it changes a little bit with defenses tightening up and every little thing is put under the microscope.

A little flesh, a little breath, and a Reason to rule all - that is myself.

He that despiseth small things will perish by little and little.

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

People where you live," the little prince said, "grow five thousand roses in one garden... yet they don't find what they're looking for... They don't find it," I answered. And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose, or a little water..." Of course," I answered. And the little prince added, "But eyes are blind. You have to look with the heart.

When you're a little girl, living your dreams, even tiny little stages in someone's backyard are amazing.

That is what they call being reconciled to die. They call it reconciled when pain has strummed a symphony of suffering back and forth across you, up and down, round and round you until each little fibre is worn tissue-thin with aching. And when you are lying beaten, and buffeted, battered and broken - pain goes out, joins hands with Death and comes back to dance, dance, dance, stamp, stamp, stamp down on you until you give up.

The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time. They are kneeling with hands clasped that we might act with restraint, that we might leave room for the life that is destined to come. To protect what is wild is to protect what is gentle. Perhaps the wilderness we fear is the pause between our own heartbeats, the silent space that says we live only by grace. Wilderness lives by this same grace. Wild mercy is in our hands.

It's clearly the case that there's not some moment in American history when every evangelical is holding hands with every Catholic who is holding hands with every mainline Methodist, or what have you. Obviously, American Christianity was deeply divided in all kinds of ways at mid-century too. But there was a kind of convergence going on. Even though Reinhold Niebuhr, the great mainline Protestant theologian, didn't think highly of Billy Graham, he and Graham still, clearly, had more in common, both theologically and in their attitudes toward religion in public life.

It’s a little weird to have fans see pictures of us when we were little because it’s like, ‘Where’d you get that picture?’

You can always get sympathy by using the word small. With little industries you feel as you do about a little puppy.

I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president.

I did not want to take a troop. I was the mother of a little boy. I knew nothing about little girls.

Have you ever noticed when you look in a mirror, unless you're really depressed or something, the person in the mirror generally looks a little more competent, a little more curious, a little more intelligent than you actually feel yourself to be? They often look more interesting and more soulful.

I'll write lines or words in a notepad. You work on little things and little parts; sometimes they turn into bigger songs.

My mother, she's the one who's gifted with language. She can speak Japanese, of course, Tagalog, which is a Filipino dialect, Spanish as well as English. And I speak a little bit Japanese because I've had the opportunity to work alongside Japanese people. And a little bit of German, a little bit of Portuguese because of work. A little bit of French because of work. But then, if you asked me to carry-on an everyday conversation, I would fail miserably.

Thou little thinkest what a little foolery governs the world.

I do have a little danger in me, a little thrill-seeking part.

Goats are really cute, especially little ones. But they do smell a little bit.

As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.

They say when you break your leg, you get a little taller and a little faster, and I got both, I think.

I'm secretly a clown, or maybe it's not much of a secret! I'm a little putzo, as the Italians say - a little bit loopy.

He that avoideth not small faults, by little and little falleth into greater.

I make a little goal every day and work toward achieving it - even if it's the smallest little thing.

The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.

To know the world, not love her, is thy point; She gives but little, nor that little, long.

But the difference between the little pieces and the big pieces - I'm not actually sure which are the little pieces. With some of the big pieces, it's a lot of musical running around, whereas the little pieces, you can say everything you want to say.

Remember, all of man's happiness is in the little valleys. Tiny little ones. Small enough to call from one side to the other.

We take our little one to a Little Gym-type place.

Having a little inflation is like being a little pregnant.

I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.

I went through that phase where I wanted to almost be different than my brother. Just kind of argued a little louder or if there was a curfew, I always came in a little later than I was supposed to. If it was set for 12, I would come in at 12:45. I would test the limits a little. There was no real reason and I grew out of it, eventually.

Sometimes a joke that doesn't work just needs a breath or a little word or the tiniest little change to be fixed.