Top 1200 Small Talk Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

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

I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.

Acting is like sex: you either do it and don't talk about it, or you talk about it and don't do it. That's why I'm always suspicious of people who talk too much about either.

If Atomes are as small, as small can bee,They must in quantity of Matter all agree

A lot of guys... they want to take the big shot, and they talk about it because they're scared of it. You never heard me talk about it. You heard a lot of guys talk about it. But you don't have to talk about it, because if you have the confidence in yourself, and your team believes in you, you don't fear anything. You don't fear losing.

I don't even like to talk about it. I hated being a number and not merely because I was a very small one. I let them bellow at me for just as long as it took me to find enough pluck to bellow back at them.

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

I represent a rural state and live in a small town. Small merchants make up the majority of Vermont's small businesses and thread our state together. It is the mom-and-pop grocers, farm-supply stores, coffee shops, bookstores and barber shops where Vermonters connect, conduct business and check in on one another.

Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.

When we talk about total war, and we talk about war zones, and we talk about the breakdown of the cities, when you exclude questions of race from that discourse, something disappears that's really central to the forms of repression that we're talking about.

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

My brother could not write about trifles. Even in society he became animated only when some serious discussion was engaged in, and he complained of feeling 'a dull pain in the brain'--a physical pain, as he used to say--when he was with people who cared only for small talk.

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

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

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.

I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.

There are men who talk of women and others who talk to them. I don’t talk of them, I prefer talking to them

We runners talk about having fun but I don't think anybody believes us. We talk about discipline and endurance, we take care, we exercise caution, we watch our diets and monitor our pace. We are ascetics who talk, unconvincingly, of the bracing enjoyment of self-abuse.

Seemingly small choices and small actions add up over time.

That is the accursed thing about small surroundings -- they make the soul small.

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.

When people talk about South Africa, it's all about lions and elephants. But when we talk about India, we talk about tigers.

I write about people in small towns; I don't write about people living in big cities. My kind of storytelling depends upon people that have time to talk to each other.

One of my rules is I generally don't talk to elected officials. It's kind of a firewall. I'll talk to staff if they have something of interest. I try to avoid talking to politicians altogether. I mean, to be honest, I don't really find them that interesting. If I want juicy information I talk to staff of the politicians.

The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed.

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.

Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom.

When we are only victorious over small things, it leaves us feeling small.

Oh yeah, it's great see music and to play music in small places. And it's really fun for me to play here because, you know, I played two feet from people all night. And after all those years, it's great to be able to talk to folks.

I don't understand small businesses, only big ones. Marriage is the hardest small business.

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

The civilization of a country consists in the quality of life that is lived there, and this quality shows plainest in the things that people choose to talk about when they talk together, and in the way they choose to talk about them.

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

If you have a small view of your sin, God's grace will be small to you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

When guys talk about going to the league in college, they're thinking about flash and bling. But my first taste of the NFL was a relatively small non-guaranteed contract, a crappy room at an extended stay hotel and a sense of panic every time my phone rang because it might be the cut guy.

Never let your small business make you small-minded.

It was probably years before I was confident enough in stand-up that I was able to talk about the things I wanted to talk about, the way I wanted to talk about them.

We don't talk about next year. We talk about today, and we talk about the next game. And that's all we can really control. The rest of it will take care of itself.

All the subject matter I talk about isn't new; all comics talk about the same things. But it's how you talk about them or present them or what you look like up there that makes the difference between an okay comic and a great one.

There are none so low but they have their triumphs. Small successes suffice for small souls.

Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make people's lives brighter. You just shake somebody's hand. You just smile and write your name and people will talk about it for the rest of their lives.

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

While it may seem small, the ripple effects of small things is extraordinary.

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

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

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

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

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

When you start to look at completing the development of a modern professional army, when you talk about maturing a democracy, when you talk about development and the economic conditions that have to be addressed, a decade is not too short a period of time to talk about.

If you don't go talk to your boss, if you don't go talk to your mentors, if you don't go talk to people who can influence where you want to be, then they don't know. And they're not mind readers.

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

Who should listen to discussions of theology? Those for whom it is a serious undertaking, not just another subject like any other for entertaining small-talk, after the races, the theater, songs, food, and sex: for there are people who count chatter on theology and clever deployment of arguments as one of their amusements.

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