Top 1200 Small Nations Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

It may surprise people to know that I advocate the reform of the United Nations, not its abolishment.

If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.

The thing about 'CD:U.K.' was, because the show started quite small with small viewing figures and it built and built, the bigger the figures got, the better and bigger the pop star you got.

There is a huge tension in trying to write with small children because they demand your attention and your time with a fierceness that can be matched by nothing else, but if you are successful in writing while you have small children, I actually think that your writing is likely to be deeper than it was before.

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience

Our secret thoughts - do they ever show up? The small flame of our soul can be burning hot, but no one comes to its warmth. Passersby see only a small whiff going through the chimney. Don't we need to take care of that flame, cherish it and patiently wait until someone will come and sit at it, do we?

Not counting Small Steps, I think Holes is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn’t changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I’m still too close to Small Steps to compare it to Holes.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

The Armenian genocide showed what could happen when empires were beaten into nations.

The United Nations cannot stand by and witness the destruction of the people of West Papua.

I have never participated directly or indirectly in any business related to the United Nations.

I know I'm small. But I don't feel small sometimes. I feel like a giant sometimes.

International socialism recognizes the right of free independent nations, with equal rights.

India is a continent and should be divided into separate nations. There is no need for a single government.

If Israel did not exist, the United Nations would go out of business.

Start small; get to know the landscape. We take risks but not major risks. We always started with small capital - €4m in Holland, $10m in Russia - and as we get to know the landscape of a country, we think about other businesses.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

You can't buy peace by just wishing it and avoiding the challenges that other nations present to you.

The world in all doth but two nations bear- The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.

The only reason you do not do great things is because you timidly cling to small things. Will you let loose of small things and bear the uncertainty of having nothing for a while? Do this and eventually you will do great things.

Small business is crucial. I think we talk so much about large businesses, they're well represented; they talk well for themselves. But most people work for small businesses; most wealth that stays in a community gets generated from them.

Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike.

Do not wish for quick results, nor look for small advantages. If you seek quick results, you will not reach the ultimate goal. If you are led astray by small advantages, you will never accomplish great things.

All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isn’t all that good, but thanks to collaboration it later sparks another idea, or it’s reinterpreted in an unexpected way. Collaboration brings small sparks together to generate breakthrough innovation.

And fifth, we will champion small businesses, America's engine of job growth. That means reducing taxes on business, not raising them. It means simplifying and modernizing the regulations that hurt small business the most. And it means that we must rein in the skyrocketing cost of healthcare by repealing and replacing Obamacare.

Remember this son, if you forget everything else. A poet is a musician who can't sing. Words have to find a man's mind before they can touch his heart. And, some men's minds are woeful small targets. Music touches their hearts directly, no matter how small or stubborn the mind of the man who listens.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.

Small hotels are going to be in vogue. In my view, small is going to be the new big, wherein people will rethink a lot about going back to that 1,000-room hotel versus going to a 40-room niche hotel.

I think it's really important to realize that small businesses are often the portal for immigrants into the New York City economy. I think we have something like 40,000 small businesses that are immigrant-run in New York.

The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for all its members.

In some movies you feel like you're a very small part of a huge machine. Whereas in the theater you can have a very small part, but you can still feel the weight and the gravity of it. Given the nature of theater, it's a more concentrated and quiet experience.

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.

We should never rush into folly just because other nations are practicing it.

Even small challenges are big challenges for me. I take all challenges seriously. I do not differentiate between big and small challenges.

Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things.

Nations are always making mistakes because they do not understand each other's psychology.

The United Nations should become a proactive agent in the dissemination of democratic principles.

It is clear that the international community has no other universal organisation of the likes of the United Nations.

nations decay from within more often than they surrender to outward assault.

I am totally committed to the cooperation between the African Union and the United Nations.

It is the English-speaking nations who, almost alone, keep alight the torch of Freedom.

Redeeming sinners from all nations through Jesus Christ was God's plan from the beginning.

Heaven has appointed me to rule all the nations, for hitherto there has been no order upon the steppes.

Every day I try to do some small thing connected to writing. Or I'll station myself at a café and try to hold myself captive with chocolate. I find that writers tend to be dismissive of small amounts of work or time, but they can actually add up. I've written several books in 15 minute increments.

On the delivery plate of the Nutri-Matic Drink Synthesizer was a small tray, on which say three bone china cups and saucers, a bone china jug of milk, a silver teapot full of the best tea Arthur had ever tasted and a small printed note saying "Wait.

As a very small boy, my passion was nature, and I had pets - cats, a dog and a bunny rabbit - and I wrote a very small book called 'My Pets,' filled with their photographs and a discussion about my pets and how much I loved them... That was my first book.

Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark . . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship. It will keep the vultures at bay.

At the United Nations, a lynch mob for Israel is always just a moment away.

America is one of few advanced nations that allow direct advertising of prescription drugs.

There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies.

I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.

Without immigration, nations would stagnate. It is key for innovation and for economic growth.

Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story revealed itself. It hasn't changed my life, other than that I have more money than I did before I wrote it. I'm still too close to 'Small Steps' to compare it to 'Holes.'

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

When it comes to gay marriage, the electorate can be broken into three basic groups: a relatively small core of committed opponents; a relatively small core of committed supporters; and a vast swath of conflicted voters who like to think of themselves as 'tolerant,' but who are instinctively uneasy with sudden, sweeping change.

There is a small group of 'Never Trump' conservatives. But it is a small group, and I've actually been surprised that there are not more of us. There's enough of us for a dinner party, not a political party. I wish there were more.

America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.

You’ve got to give great tools to small teams. Pick good people, use small teams and give them great tools so that they are very productive in terms of what they are doing.

The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.