Top 1200 Little Things Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

When I was little, I was like a magpie, which is a bird that's attracted to shiny things. They'll build their nests with Christmas tree tinsel.

Just a little rain falling all around The grass lifts its head to the heavenly sound Just a little rain, just a little rain What have they done to the rain? Just a little boy standing in the rain The gentle rain that falls for years And the grass is gone and the boy disappears And the rain keeps falling like helpless tears And what have they done to the rain? Just a little breeze out of the sky The leaves nod their heads as the breeze blows by Just a little breeze with some smoke in its eye And what have they done to the rain?

Sometimes trust takes time. We all love to be in control, but when you start to give some of that up, it's freeing. Start with some of the little things. Give those things up to the Lord. Ultimately the most important decision you can make is giving your life over to Christ and trusting Him with it. That's an amazing thing.

The biggest lesson my kids have taught me is to find the joy in little things, along with a healthy dose of patience.

As a child, I always enjoyed - my parents used to have these little cocktail parties - and I always loved trying to get the adults to tell me things they weren't supposed to say. And in many ways, that's what my job is today; it's getting people to tell me things that they probably are otherwise not supposed to say.

Expect great things from God, receive great things from God. Expect little from God, receive little from God.

Little children love bright, shiny things - and in my experience, most grown-up women aren't very different!

I started posting on my social media super-young. I didn't really understand what it was. When I was about 15, I started posting behind-the-scenes of shoots, little things of me holding up the color corrector, cute things, me in a bikini. It was just all innocent and fun, and I saw people really starting to respond to it.

All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.

As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.

God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.

"OK, well everyone makes a mistake, right?" But then when you think it probably happened again that's when you think: "Shame on you once and shame on me twice, or however that saying goes." But everyone's been down that road. It's not about the little things anymore, but the major things that tell you if you don't move on at that point then I'm a fool.

I was so young when I started, my taste has changed and developed, and I've gone from being a little bit safe to trying different things.

Thoughts are wonderful things, that they can bring two people, so far apart, into harmony and understanding for even a little while.

Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes.

If all other risk factors are normal, and you exercise moderately, your risk of having high CRP is one in 2000, .. A person who is a little overweight, with blood fats and cholesterol a little elevated, maybe with a little bit of high blood pressure -- we didn't used to think that having several of these little risk factors were a big deal. But it is. These little risk factors add up in a way that is worse for you than one big risk factor.

When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.

When there's a lot of talk about a team that should or could be winning things, and it's not happening, it can become a little bit frustrating.

Give not reins to your inflamed passions: take time and a little delay; impetuosity manages all things badly.

I cannot tell you on a day to day basis that there's a return on investment. I can tell you if you stick with it, absolutely in a few months things will start to change. It starts to change slowly. Things start to get a little easier. As the momentum builds it becomes bigger and bigger.

This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.

Airport screeners are now scanning holiday fruitcakes. Not even the scanners can tell what those little red things are.

My philosophy is the balance of remembering the past but not living in it, to know where you are in the moment, to project a little in the future and be ready to change. It's how you experience the grace to enjoy the smell of the pavement after a rain - the little things in life to make you satisfied. I never settle for anything that doesn't give me a modicum of pleasure if not total joy and satisfaction. It's allowed, that's what we're supposed to feel. How can we, from an empty cup, offer a stranger a drink of water? You have to fill that cup to the brim!

He (Shaithan) is extremely patient. He won't get you in one shot. He'll come at you and he'll put a little bit and a little bit and a little bit until he destroys your character.

Culture and tradition have to change little by little. So 'new' means a little twist, a marriage of Japanese technique with French ingredients. My technique. Indian food, Korean food; I put Italian mozzarella cheese with sashimi. I don't think 'new new new.' I'm not a genius. A little twist.

We are saved from nothing if we are not saved from sin. Little sins are pioneers of hell. The backslider begins with what he foolishly considers trifling with little sins. There are no little sins. There was a time when all the evil that has existed in the world was comprehended in one sinful thought of our first parent; and all the now evil is the numerous and horrid progeny of one little sin.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

Wouldn`t it be wonderful if we could all be a little more gentle with each other, and a little more loving, have a little more empathy, and maybe we'd like each other a little bit more.

The Japanese are virtuosos. They make just the little accent that makes all the difference. So much there is so beautiful - just a shop window display is a work of art. Just the way they make all kinds of things out of bamboo that are so ingenious. Just the way this little bamboo drain or latch is so beautiful. The masonry around the streams to hold the bank are beautiful - and not all one kind and not just cement.

My grandmother played the piano, and I used to toddle over there and pick out little things that sounded good to me.

We got the goals early in the game and I thought we just got a little too comfortable with things. They started changing their defense, they started going from a zone defense to a man-to-man and doing different things. We got sloppy, and I give them credit for the way they played. We got sloppy and had some turnovers there. We did have some opportunities, one-on-one with the goalie in the second there, but we need to finish things. They found some momentum in their defense and were able to crawl back in.

I grew up as this little Catholic girl who just wanted to make beautiful things. I expressed myself with paint.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

The first 6 hours of being in orbit were a little difficult on my stomach. I think things just didn't know where to go!

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Romance is about the little things - small loving gestures, hugs, saying 'I love you' (and meaning it), and sincere compliments.

I've felt a little culpable that we entrepreneurs often invent businesses just to drive people to buy more things.

I have fallen a few times, and each time, I have gotten up and grown as a person and looked at things a little differently.

I think my main objective is to watch as many players as I can and grab a little bit from each of them, especially the things they do well.

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.

A lot of the time I get obsessed by little nerdy things in my corner that no one else is interested in. I have that nerd factor in my character.

I loved pop music as a little kid. Things like the Black Eyed Peas. If it had a catchy chorus, I was into it.

It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life.

When I was a little bit younger The strain I was under could make me cry. Now I'm a little bit older, A little bit bolder, Never so shy

Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who'll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you're in the wrong house, that's what it means.

Cigarettes and chocolate milk These are just a couple of my cravings Everything it seems I like's a little bit stronger A little bit thicker A little bit harmful for me.

I have a little journal that I always keep with me, and when I need to, I'll write poems and things. It really helps to clear my head.

Sometimes the best thing to do is to take a step back and get a little bit of a different perspective and re-evaluate things.

I was happy over little things: mango sorbet, and running, and the way my feet felt touching the ground when I ran.

I don't know what people are going to think of my stand-up. If you only know me from 'The Price Is Right' and 'The Drew Carey Show,' then you might be a little bit shocked. I'm a little dirty and a little opinionated but all in fun.

That's the point I'm trying to get across in 'Little': Kids can do anything, and that's how adults need to see things, too.

I see so many people in our industry, in my own network, who throw little tantrums about things that they can't control.

If you do good work, you start to make a name for yourself and things can come around. Weird little happenstances happen.

It's not at all hard to reconcile the two things if you organize your time intelligently. Even when my sons were little, I was working.

If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.

The difficulty will be to keep her from learning too fast and too much. She is always sitting with her little nose burrowing into books. She doesn't read them, Miss Minchin; she gobbles them up as if she were a little wolf instead of a little girl. She is always starving for new books to gobble, and she wants grown-up books--great, big, fat ones--French and German as well as English--history and biography and poets, and all sorts of things. Drag her away from her books when she reads too much.

It's not that hard to eat well if you're willing to put a little more time into it, a little more thoughtfulness into it and, yes, a little bit more money.

If we did but know how little some enjoy of the great things that they possess, there would not be much envy in the world.

I've always been a little more narrative, a little more linear, a little more direct. People instantly want to classify that as something retro. It's just a way of writing songs.

I was always curious. I wanted to learn a little about a lot of things, and I really had to get pushed to achieve.