Top 1200 Small Groups Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.

There's no job too big to benefit from a small town person's perspective, I discovered, just as there's no town too small for thinking big.

[Louis] Brandeis, like [Tomas] Jefferson, is an equal opportunity critic of bigness. And he, like Jefferson, sees American history as this incredible clash between small producers, farmers, and small business people on the one hand, and wicked oligarchs and financiers and monopolists on the other.

I can still hear my mom's voice echoing through the house, reminding me and my siblings to 'Make your beds!' It seems like such a small thing, but when you're one of 15 brothers and sisters like me, those small reminders about the importance of discipline and order are critical.

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.

The virtue of small government is that the mistakes are small as well...If you want to leave a nation you think is corrupt, inefficient, militaristic, oppressive, repressive, but you don't want to move to Canada or France, what do you do? Well, the way is through secession, where you could stay home and be where you want to be.

Small- and medium-sized businesses need access to a diverse range of finance options, including non-bank lending. These new forms of finance are still small in scale today but they should, over time, bring additional choice and greater competition to the lending market.

If we overcome the pull and "get up and get at it," we will have won a victory. We have kept our own resolve. We can then move to other things, for by small means great things are accomplished. Thus, even this one small step is also in another sense a giant leap.

Obama has refused to equip, or to arm, any rebel groups fighting Assad or his forces.

Clearly, the left-wing groups want to use this carbon theme as a tool for wealth redistribution.

Washington, D.C. is full of think tanks, theoreticians and advocacy groups. Governors are the ones whose feet are on the ground.

I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.

I want to live in Britain with a sense of humour - where there are no groups whose life choices are 'above' criticism.

You might be a redneck if you think that beef jerky and Moon Pies are two of the major food groups.

I go to a lot of self-help groups in the day, and then I can sleep pretty well at night.

If by leaving a small pleasure one sees a great pleasure, let a wise man leave the small pleasure, and look to the great.

That's how hatred is created: two different groups, each insisting they're on the moral high ground

Great Groups need to know that the person at the top will fight like a tiger for them.

It's great, because different groups of kids can laugh at each other and still enjoy the show.

I think the art film, or the auteur-driven film - and not only foreign, but domestic films following that path - can get a small share of the box office. And I think that small share may open up a little bit.

Paul Ryan is the establishment tool in D.C. that tries to splinter groups and does not work for the will of the people.

If you think you can finish ISIS off with the PYD and YPG, you cannot, because they are terrorist groups as well.

Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

Many people feel small because they're small and the universe is big, but I feel big.

Greatness comes by doing a few small and smart things each and every day. Comes from taking little steps, consistently. Comes from a making a few small chips against everything in your professional and personal life that is ordinary, so that a day eventually arrives when all that's left is The Extraordinary.

Thus out of small beginnings greater things have been produced by His hand that made all things of nothing, and gives being to all things that are; and, as one small candle may light a thousand, so the light here kindled hath shone unto many.

I just don't get that new hot music. I don't know anything about all these groups like U2.

The average small-business owner uses 18 apps to run their business every day, and if those applications don't allow data to flow seamlessly and they don't integrate, it's going to become a point of friction. It's going to prevent the small business from being successful.

The Small Business 'common app' would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple colleges and universities simultaneously. It would ensure that small businesses across the country can concentrate on growing and creating jobs - not wasting time, filling out mountains of repetitive paperwork.

The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.

It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.

A woman gets stretch marks from one of two things. Either she was big and got small or she was small and got big.

Rodeo riders are the last of the true chivalrous groups of people. It's a place where the competition is really pure.

The biggest challenge Malayalam cinema faces is territorial. We operate within a small territory in Kerala, and the Malayalam diaspora across the world in comparative terms is quite small. But we have world-class talent in terms of technicians, actors, and writers.

Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat. When your desires are strong enough you will appear to possess superhuman powers to achieve.

...Environmental groups are too often alarmists. They have an awful track record, so they've lost credibility with the public.

The Democratic party is really just a giant day care center for squabbling little groups.

I have always viewed my role as a sort of ambassador or bridge between groups to help provide a dialog.

It's becoming clear that the world is listening, so now we're trying to get new groups of people talking.

When I was 19 or 20, the way I was an activist was by regularly meeting with groups, going to protests, and being there on the ground.

There are a lot of groups that feel a little bit strange around me, because I am inclusive.

The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don't gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.

A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.

Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones.

Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.

That was one of the amazing things about Doctor Who. Considering it is such an enormous charabanc, a centerpiece of international TV, it feels incredibly small when you are actually involved in it. It is very intimate, very small; it feels like a few people messing about with a camera.

I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society.

There are real radical Muslim groups out there that really are pretty villainous. You don't have to make them up.

What I found about 'Nashville' coming in is it's about these small performances. It can be on a big stage but detailed, small, heartfelt, real performances from musicians and singers. So if you try to do something bloated or showy, the directors dial us in and let us know.

The Stones can get out there and do it till they're old men. But certain groups are sad-looking to me.

I think these al Qaeda franchise groups have clearly evolved into a much more dangerous strain.

You don't know what you need when you're a young writer. You can get small slivers of critical input, advice, comments, but if you're deep in the perplexity of your own process, as you should be, sorting it out in your own way, nothing is going to guide you more than small gestures of encouragement.

But I shall give less thought to the future, I shall work in the present. I feel such work is within my power. For I only succeed in small things, and when I am tried by anxiety, I am bound to say it is the small joys that release me.

When you tie [Donald] Trump supporters to those groups [the American Nazi party and the KKK ] that is a slur.

Summoning up the courage to take action is always the same regardless of how seemingly big or small the challenge. What may look like a small act of courage is courage nonetheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.

Being as it was one of my dreams to sing with one of the world's greatest groups, for me to join 'The Temptations' was a great blessing.

See yourself as a small child, fragile and vulnerable, and breathe in. Smile with love to this small child within yourself, and breathe out.

We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.