Top 1200 Small Pleasures Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Life itself is selfless giving. We're not given this life just for own amusement and pleasures.

They think so small, they use small words. But not me, I'm smarter than that, I've worked it out. I'm stretching my mouth to let those big words come on out.

I was born in a very small town in North Dakota, a town of only about 350 people. I lived there until I was 13. It was a marvelous advantage to grow up in a small town where you knew everybody.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.

we cling to our last pleasures as the tree clings to its last leaves.

As we advance in life the circle of our pains enlarges, while that of our pleasures contracts.

Charlotte, it's what somebody from New York or L.A. would say is a small town, but it isn't. It's right in between being a small town and a city. It's more of a city.

What I have found is that when we get to that still, small voice inside and begin to live by it, we see that that still, small voice doesn't judge us the way we are being judged by others all the time.

Developing aesthetic sense is vital for actors. They must understand that there is no small role, only small actors. A good actor will do the smallest role to perfection, and be recognised.

I do, and I hunt. I like small horses best. They're like small men. They have more to prove so they take all the more risks and jump higher and faster than all the rest.

I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded.

A rainy day can actually be a very important day. And a small hope isn't really small if it makes a lost hope less sad.

The stress of not allowing yourself life's guilty pleasures from time to time is as unhealthy as the act of indulging.

I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity.

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

There's a small group of guys in hip-hop that really have money. The whole culture talks about money, but it's a small group that actually has it.

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced.

God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

Come to me and show me a small cancer and I'll tell you you've got a small cancer that should be cut out. That's realism but in America it's called cynicism.

One of the pleasures of reading is seeing this alteration on the pages, and the way, by reading it, you have made the book yours.

I sit at my desk each night with no place to go, opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo, the whole U.S., its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones, through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.

Small things were important. Secods were small things, and if you heaped enough of those on top of one another, they became a man's life.

We relate all our afflictions more frequently than we do our pleasures.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If you enjoy something, there's nothing guilty about it.

Fashion is free speech, and one of the privileges, if not always one of the pleasures, of a free world

Make your friends your teachers and mingle the pleasures of conversation with the advantages of instruction.

I am ably balancing big and small films. With every big film I do, I try to take up films that are high on content and small on budget.

What would you rather do? Fix a small problem well or answer a small problem well or flail around at the big ones and pay a lot of lip service?

We've had risk assessments performed by Harvard University, which said that even if we did have a small number of cases in this country that the likelihood of it spreading or getting into any kind of human health problem is very, very small.

In the end, the best way to succeed is to go small. And when you go small, you say no - a lot. A lot more than you might have even considered before.

The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is today universal) actively promotes the absorption of the small man by the great, the reduction of small property owners to a proletarian condition.

The earth has become small, and on it hops the last man, who makes everything small. His race can no more be exterminated than the flea can be. The last man lives the longest.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures. No ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

No sane man can afford to dispense with debilitating pleasures; no ascetic can be considered reliably sane.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

If you can somehow think and dream of success in small steps, every time you make a step, every time you accomplish a small goal, it gives you confidence to go on from there.

When we get government off the backs of our job creators, small businesses have a better chance of thriving. And when small businesses thrive, so does our economy.

As I've gotten older, I have gotten a lot better at finding the pleasures of making music despite the business of it.

I'd heard Dallas described as a 'big, small town' before, even before I moved. As a kid from an actual small town in Iowa, I was never sure what to make of the description.

A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

As any actor will tell you, the hardest thing to do is small parts, because you focus all your attention and concentration on that small part. When you're playing the lead part, you don't have time to think about the whole of it, so you just have to steam on and get on with it.

I don't believe in guilty pleasures. If I like it, I don't feel guilty about it

What's my guilty pleasure? The thing is, I never feel guilty about pleasures.

Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.

Free men must live simple lives and have simple pleasures.

Far superior to the pleasures and rewards of the illusion that is Earthly life are the pleasure and rewards of the Reality.

From the age of 1 to 6 there is a small percentage that is exclusively homosexual, a small percentage heterosexual and there's a wide band in the middle of people who respond to various stimuli. A little bit here, a little more there.

Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.

I went to a really small school, and it had a really small theater department. They didn't talk about Broadway. I learned about it through watching the Tony Awards.

...pleasure, of course, is a slippery word.... Our pleasures ultimately belong to us, not to the pleasure's source.

Growing up I was always small. I think growing up through the academy and being the small one, you get that technical side of the game and you are learning from bigger players.

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much.

The liberty of using harmless pleasure will not be disputed; but it is still to be examined what pleasures are harmless.

But for Muslims, everything that they don't have on earth is what they get in heaven. They can drink, they can have sex. All of the forbidden pleasures on earth, you can have in paradise.

Great pleasures are much less frequent than great pains.

The ancestral deed is thought and done, And in a million Edens fall A million Adams drowned in darkness, For small is great and great is small, And a blind seed all.

I've enjoyed the pleasures of working since I was 12 and earned all my own spending money since I was 14.

Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is

Italians do not regard food as merely fuel. They regard it as medicine for the soul, one of life's abiding pleasures.