Top 1200 Small Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

A small man intoxicated by being allowed to run around with the big, aggressive, powerful boys after so many years as a corduroy-clad peacenik.

Nothing surpasses my performances with small bands, especially with Charlie Parker. A small band doesn't forestall creativity.

We need to repeal Dodd-Frank act. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks.

Perfection is no small thing, but it is made up of small things.

The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.

How then, is it natural that the mind of man, being so small as contained in such narrow spaces as a brain or a heart, should have room for all the vastness of sky and Universe?

Small nations have no time for small goals - they have to think big in order to become contributors.

A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.

Happiness is a small and unworthy goal for something as big and fancy as a whole lifetime, and should be taken in small doses.

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

I was born and I live in a small village, where the centre of life is the square, and the small bar/cafe.

What we fight with is so small, and when we win, it makes us small. What we want is to be defeated, decisively, by successively greater things

Remember: there are no small parts, only small actors.

Take care of the small circle around you. When you have succeeded with them, then move outwards, one small step at a time.

Man is more himself, man is more manlike, when Joy is the fundamental thing in him, and Grief the superficial. Melancholy should be an innocent interlude, a tender and fugitive state of mind; Praise should be the permanent pulsation of the soul. Pessimism is at best an emotional half-holiday; Joy is the uproarious labor by which all things live? Christianity satisfies suddenly and perfectly man's ancestral instinct for being the right way up; satisfies it supremely in this, that by its creed Joy becomes something gigantic, and Sadness something special and small.

The planet belongs to all being; all beings are responsible. We all have to do whatever we can do no matter how small it is; nothing is too small.

Distrust that man who tells you to distrust. He takes the measure of his own small soul, and thinks the world no larger.

Is a man what he seems to the astronomer, a tiny lump of impure carbon and water crawling impotently on a small and unimportant planet? Or is he what he appears to Hamlet? Is he perhaps both as once?

Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.

When you think about it, giving up your 'real' personality is a small price to pay for the richness of 'living happily ever after' with an actual man!

If there be any man who thinks the ruin of a race of men a small matter, compared with the last decoration and completions of hisown comfort,--who would not so much as part with his ice- cream, to save them from rapine and manacles, I think I must not hesitate to satisfy that man that also his cream and vanilla are safer and cheaper by placing the negro nation on a fair footing than by robbing them.

I started on the stage with my mom in Denmark doing political revues in a small, small town.

One of the benefits of playing to small audiences in small clubs for a few years is that you're allowed to fail.

I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school.

War is idiocy. We live on a small, small planet, and what we do to others is what we do to ourselves.

When you think about it, giving up your real personality is a small price to pay for the richness of living happily ever after with an actual man!

Just small things are going to hopefully lead to a bigger surplus in the end. Obviously, you might not see it every single game, every single detail, but those small things and those small details add up so much, and that's what creates winning.

Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.

A criminal becomes a popular figure because he unburdens in no small degree the consciences of his fellow man, for now they know once more where evil is to be found.

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

I live at the bottom of a valley. I have a small bookshop in a small town, and I seldom venture far afield.

Alongside the statement about one man's poison being another man's high, one might as well add that one man's saint can be another man's sore and one man's hero can turn out to be that man's biggest hangup.

The world is filled with successful small businesses that stay small.

It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.

I am small. I was always small. But only physically.

The paradox of knowledge is not confined to the small, atomic scale; on the contrary, it is as cogent on the scale of man, and even of the stars.

Marco Rubio hit my hands. Nobody has ever hit my hands. I've never heard of this. What - look at those hands. Are they small hands? And he referred to my hands - if they're small, something else must be small. I guarantee you, there's no problem. I guarantee you.

I'll always learn something new, usually the small things that people overlook, those small nuances that can make you great.

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

I'm not a good small talker. I'm not into small talk, frankly.

If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.

Small wins are a steady application of a small advantage.

The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

There is power in creating a small model, and then you can create an alliance of other small models.

Feeling a little small? Well, in the context of the cosmos, we are small.

I'm happy for all the small things a man never gets around to putting his finger on - the things we take for granted.

for in the absence of God he had found Man. Man killing man, man helping man, both of them anonymous: the scourge and the blessing.

No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.

There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.

Why worry about these small, small things? I don't stress. You never hear of anyone dying of happiness.

Never let your small business make you small-minded.

A great man once wrote, "Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire." If only I were as eloquent as Mr. de la Rochefoucauld...I miss you, I miss you, I miss you. And I want you. And I need your kiss. And your touch on my skin like a man needs water. Always.

Small is not beautiful unless small is skilled and dedicated.

We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.

Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires.

There's no such thing as a small part. There are just small actors.

Any work I do I think is important...like in acting there are no small parts- only small actors.

Like Nemanja Vidic, I came from a small town in a small country in Eastern Europe, but we had reached the top.