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Quote:Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.[Winston Churchill]

Quote:He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.[Abraham Lincoln]

Quote:Absence is to love as wind is to fire; It extinguishes the small and kindles the great.[Roger de Bussy-Rabutin]

Quote:The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.[Ambrose Bierce]

Quote:Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:When you break the big laws, you do not get freedom; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.[GK Chesterton]

Quote:Back in the old days, most families were close-knit. Grown children and their parents continued to live together, under the same roof, sometimes in the same small, crowded room, year in and year out, until they died, frequently by strangulation.[Dave Barry]

Quote:A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.[Benjamin Franklin]

Quote:Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.[Benjamin Franklin]

Quote:People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them that I have the heart of a small boy...and I keep it in a jar on my desk.[Stephen King]

Quote:For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.[John F. Kennedy]

Quote:It's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.[Margaret Thatcher]

Quote:University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.[Henry Kissinger]

Quote:Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).[Ayn Rand]

Quote:It is largely because the free-thinkers, as a school, have hardly made up their minds whether they want to be more optimist or more pessimist than Christianity that their small but sincere movement has failed. For the duel is deadly; and any agnostic who wishes to be anything more than a Nihilist must sympathize with one version of nature or the other.[GK Chesterton]

Quote:Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.[Margaret Mead]

Quote:The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.[Russell Lynes]

Quote:We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.[Mother Teresa]

Quote:Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.[George Eliot]

Quote:Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps.[Saul Bellow]

Quote:For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.[Carl Sagan]

Quote:For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal.[John F. Kennedy]

Quote:Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.[Nachman of Bratslav]

Quote:Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into a even smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose.[Winston Churchill]

Quote:The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.[Albert Einstein]

Quote:If you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a small chance of survival. There may even be a worse case: you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.[Winston Churchill]

Quote:There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.[Robert Alden]

Quote:That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.[Neil Armstrong]

Quote:The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. [Aesop]

Quote:No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. [Aesop]

Quote:Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. [Franklin P. Adams]

Quote:An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy. [Niels Bohr]

Quote:He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. [Abraham Lincoln]

Quote:He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. [Abraham Lincoln]

Quote:Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine. [Fran Lebowitz]

Quote:Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. [Margaret Cho]

Quote:We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. [Etty Hillesum]

Quote:The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. [Bertrand Russell]

Quote:The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. [Bertrand Russell]



Definitions of: small

Definition: Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity or degree; diminutive; not large or extended in dimension; not great; not much; inconsiderable; as, a small man; a small river.

Definition: Being of slight consequence; feeble in influence or importance; unimportant; trivial; insignificant; as, a small fault; a small business.

Definition: Envincing little worth or ability; not large-minded; -- sometimes, in reproach, paltry; mean.

Definition: Not prolonged in duration; not extended in time; short; as, after a small space.

Definition: Weak; slender; fine; gentle; soft; not loud.

Definition: The small or slender part of a thing; as, the small of the leg or of the back.

Definition: Smallclothes.

Definition: Same as Little go. See under Little, a.

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