Top 1200 Small Amounts Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

From building a fire one can learn something about artistic composition. If you use only small kindling and large logs, the fire will quickly eat up the small pieces but will not become strong enough to attack the large ones. You must supply a scale of sizes from the smallest to the largest. The human eye also will not make its way into a painting or building unless a continuum of shapes leads from the small to the large, from the large to the small.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

As you probably know, half of the people who work in this country work for small businesses. And it's more than that, because two out of every three net new jobs come from small business. So we mean it when we talk about small business being the engine for the economy.

A move to decide citizenship on the basis of religion amounts to rejecting the Constitution.

Small businesses pay 18 percent more than big businesses for health care, the same health care, just because they're small and they have too small a pool of risk.

I don't recall the so-called devilish things I do. But there are considerable amounts.

Biochemically, love is just like eating large amounts of chocolate.

When you're growing up in a small town You know you'll grow down in a small town There is only one good use for a small town You hate it and you know you'll have to leave.

I eat junk food, cheesecake, cheese, pizza - but just lower amounts of it.

We live in what virtually amounts to a museum - which does not happen to a lot of people.

Its super to play with Martina, and she has huge amounts of talent. We have a lot of fun.

I think the commercial culture, and also science and technology after all, which gives us greater ease but also makes it harder for us to sit with the small amounts of distress that come just by living itself. It isn't that we're chasing happiness; I think we have the wrong model of happiness. I mean, defined as eudaimonia, defined as a values-based life of integrity and fidelity to yourself and what you most deeply want to stand for, that definition of happiness - man, that's the kind of life I want to live and I think that will support people and sustain people.

The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit.

You've got a huge American population, you've got a small, small, small subset that is radicalized, and you have an even smaller subset that actually takes action. And you can't cover everyone who has some contact, someone bad. What you need is offense overseas, defense at home with intelligence and law enforcement, and really deep engagement with these communities.

I spent ridiculous amounts of time as an activist and volunteer and was a teacher for 20 years.

Greenspan's policies have created huge amounts of wealth for Arizona.

It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.

The only gambling tip which amounts to anything is to keep out of the game.

I don't think through anything I do. I just do it, and it's oftentimes landed me in huge amounts of trouble.

I've turned down shows offering large amounts of money.

Megacollectors suppose they can enter art history by spending astronomical amounts.

Thus it amounts to the same thing whether one gets drunk alone or is a leader of nations.

The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small town is called a small town: It's because not many people want to live there.

If you are playing repertoire material, you're stuck. There's not huge amounts you can do.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything.

Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.

I grew up in the small German village of Bosingen, which is located between Black Forest and the state capital of Stuttgart. And when I say small, I mean small. In our village, there were no more than 1,700 people. And we all loved football, but there weren't a lot of places for us boys around town to play in.

Distilling truth from overwhelming amounts of information is the essence of leadership.

I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.

Hillary Clinton is taken in massive amounts of money from foreign countries and other things.

In football, you can do well even without spending huge amounts.

Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain. All of my regret, will wash away somehow. But i can not forget, the way i feel right now.

Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die

I was operated on facially so much when I was young, and I had massive amounts of stitches.

I write autobiographically, although I apply liberal amounts of poetic license.

It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serve a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.

Isn't the small and common the field we live our life in? The large comes into a life through small-paned windows. A breath is small, but everything depends on it. A person looks at you a single, brief moment longer than is necessary, and everything is changed. The smaller the clue, the larger the meaning, it sometimes feels.

I don't believe that, with the click of a mouse, you should be able to buy unlimited amounts of ammunition.

I do a lot of things like running hills and larger amounts of reps in the gym.

I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them.

We must not drift away from the humble works, because these are the works nobody will do. It is never too small. We are so small we look at things in a small way. But God, being Almighty, sees everything great. Therefore, even if you write a letter for a blind man or you just go sit and listen, or you take the mail for him, or you visit somebody or bring a flower to somebody-small things-or wash clothes for somebody, or clean the house. Very humble work, that is where you and I must be. For there are many people who can do big things. But there are very few people who will do the small things.

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

The great arises out of small things that are honored and cared for. Everybody's life really consists of small things. Greatness is a mental abstraction and a favorite fantasy of the ego. The paradox is that the foundation for greatness is the honoring of small things of the present moment instead of pursuing the idea of greatness.

The inborn geniality of some people amounts to genius.

Everything amounts to nothing if you don't love someone or something.

That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

Excessive amounts of overtime are not conducive to safe working practices and environments.

We’re partial to putting out large amounts of money where we won’t have to make another decision.

Evolving our culture to operate and think differently is no small task. We are challenging our employees to be the best of both small and big companies - they should operate with the soul and spirit of a startup, while leveraging the scale, resources and capabilities of Campbell - with the goal of ultimately becoming the biggest small company.

Something unknown is doing we don't know what-that is what our theory amounts to.

But I'm taking small steps 'Cause I don't know where I'm going I'm taking small steps And I don't know what to say. Small steps, Trying to pull myself together And maybe I'll discover A clue along the way!

I don't know. I have incredible amounts of hope that things can change. It takes people who believe.

A mathematician believes that describing the speed of Mercury with equations amounts to science.

In F1, we see teams spending ridiculous amounts of money. That's the sport.

I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.

The less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag.

An amazing performance is always a reflection of awesome amounts of practice.

It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small matters over a period of years. But the catch is that you can never know when a seemingly small decision may prove to be, from the vantage of later years, the big decision of your life.

Normally, I'd believe that the saying 'There's no small parts, only small actors' is a load of crock because, more often than not, actors relegated to the small-part category stay in 'Who was that guy from that thing' purgatory - however, '90s sitcom 'Friends' proved that the saying is true.

As a diabetic, I'm a walking picnic. I have to eat measured amounts of food at certain times.