Top 1200 Small Acts Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.

England [sic] is just a small island. Its roads and houses are small. With few exceptions, it doesn't make things that people in the rest of the world want to buy. And if it hadn't been separated from the continent by water, it almost certainly would have been lost to Hitler's ambitions.

One of the best programs that the federal government sponsors is the Small Business Innovation Research program, in which more than 2.5 percent of federal research and development funding at the largest agencies goes directly to small businesses.

A million million worlds that move in peace;A million mighty laws that never cease;And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds,Rich with eggs, slaves and store of millet-seeds.They sleep beneath the sodAnd trust in God.

More than 60 percent of small businesses face payment delays. That can cause a serious cash flow crisis. So, as president, I will explore new ways to arm small businesses with the tools to fight back and level the playing field.

It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped.

As I'm traveling around, I meet many small children. And when I look at a small and think how we've harmed this beautiful planet since I was that age, I feel a kind of desperation, anger, shame. I don't know what I feel; I just don't know what the emotion is.

Access to capital is critical for small business success and crucial to our economic recovery. Without access to capital, many small companies are not able to maintain operations, let alone expand and create new jobs.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

The socialist society would have to forbid capitalist acts between consenting adults.

Small business is where jobs come from. Two-thirds of our jobs come from small businesses.

Many upscale American parents somehow think jobs like their own are part of the nation's natural order. They are not. In Europe, they have already discovered that, and many there have accepted the new small-growth, small-jobs reality. Will we?

However small your garden, you must provide for two of the serious gardener's necessities, a tool shed and a compost heap. A wire bin takes up negligible space and can be concealed by shrubs, or you can make a small pit into which you sweep leaves and clippings, but try not to fall into it.

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline.

Don't be guilty of ignoring symptoms of rebellion when your children are small. Don't simply excuse it as a stage they are going through and think that they will grow out of it. If you ignore it when they are small, you won't be able to handle it when they get older and the rebellion has had time to develop into a strong force.

True compassion sees each person as a brother or sister and acts accordingly.

During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.

The work of art acts like another living person with whom we are conversing.

I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent.

I want us to invest in your future. That means jobs in infrastructure, in advanced manufacturing, innovation and technology, clean, renewable energy, and small business, because most of the new jobs will come from small business.

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

There is the voice that everybody hears... saying to you, "You should do this, you should be this, you ought to, you got to." And then there is the still small voice - for some people not so small - inside every human being that calls you to something that is greater than yourself.

Germany is an anatomical oddity: it writes with its left hand and acts with its right.

Survivor species tend to have huge populations, so they can afford to lose many individuals and still survive as a species. They also tend to be small. If you're small, you need less food - which is great in a situation where famine is everywhere.

That is life. Just one long succession of misunderstandings and rash acts and what not. Absolutely.

One minute we can be in a small club, the next minute we can be in a coliseum, and the next minute we can be in a small auditorium. It varies, depending on the promoter, the budget, and the travelling distance.

I had a particular affinity for wrestling, and it did have a lot to do with being small and being combative - and being angry. And when you're small and you don't back down, you get in a lot of fights.

We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

I always loved Evander Holyfield because people think of him as a small heavyweight, but of course from the waist up he was a pretty good-sized guy, but he just had these little skinny legs and no booty and it made him look like he was small.

Wireless technology has completely revolutionized information transmission and exchange in India. If you go in the coastal areas, small-scale fishermen who go out in small boats, they now carry a cellphone, which has GPS data on wave heights, where the fish are, et cetera.

Everyone connected to the internet acts globally. it is wildly foolish to think locally.

A small part of her secretly hoped she caught him in bed. But that really was a very small part. The bigger part hoped he was in the shower.

There's a small percentage of people who can act. There's a small percentage who get to do this for a living. There's a swath of the population that are able to keep a story in their head and fight all the battles against self-consciousness and the surreal unnaturalness of acting in a movie. The technical aspects you can learn fairly quickly.

Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will.

[In the aftermath of death] Small talk feels too small, big talk too enormous.

I feel good cinema, be it big or small, with small actor or big actor, it always works.

Feeling in the young precedes philosophy, and often acts with a more certain aim.

There are two rules in life: Rule #1: Don't sweat the small stuff. Rule #2: Everything is small stuff.

My husband acts and I have such respect for those that do it well, that I wouldn't even try to pretend I can act.

Choice is a determinant in personal development ... by my free acts I am making myself.

A person's acts are always in harmony with the dominating thoughts of his or her mind.

The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

Many comics stay in one city and develop their acts for that particular audience.

She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of the ground. In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis.

Small businesses win as they get more contracts; workers win as small businesses create jobs; and taxpayers win as prices are driven down.

Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.

With some electronica acts, you see them live, but you're not really sure what they're doing.

The real relatedness between two people is experienced in the small tasks they do together: the quiet conversation when the day's upheavels are at rest, the soft word of understanding, the daily companionship, the encouragement offered in a difficult moment, the small gift when least expected, the spontaneous gesture of love.

Wealth acts merely as a kind of mirror to show you human nature at its worst.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small.

I have been much amused at ye singular phenomena resulting from bringing of a needle into contact with a piece of amber or resin fricated on silke clothe. Ye flame putteth me in mind of sheet lightning on a small-how very small-scale.

Personality is and does something...It is what lies behind specific acts and within the individual

We don't thrive on military acts. We do them because we have to, and thank God we are efficient.

Who are you?" "I am Death," said the creature. "I thought that was obvious." "But you're so small!" "Only because you are small. You are young and far from your Death, September, so I seem as anything would seem if you saw it from a long way off-very small, very harmless. But I am always closer than I appear. As you grow, I shall grow with you, until at the end, I shall loom huge and dark over your bed, and you will shut your eyes so as not to see me.

If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.

Cash flow is a problem for a small and developing company, and the lack of it is the reason why many small businesses fail. Ensure that you have enough money in your bank account to make you able to carry out daily basic needs for your business.

To be able to grasp something of value, sometimes you have to perform seemingly inefficient acts.