Little Quotes - 13
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I have a dream. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
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More Little Quotes
If you give yourself that short little moment of thinking, then you cannot miss it.
michel thomas— Speak German with Michel Thomas, Disc 3
Tomorrow and on every anniversary as long as the Happier Hunting Ground existed a postcard would go to Mr. Joyboy: Your little Aimée is wagging her tail in heaven tonight, thinking of you.
evelyn waugh— Chapter 10
People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.
joss whedon—
When I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow: when I see kings lying by those who deposed them, when I consider rival wits placed side by side, or the holy men that divided the world with their contests and disputes, I reflect with sorrow and astonishment on the little competitions, factions, and debates of mankind.
joseph addison— Thoughts in Westminster Abbey (1711).
[Regarding Flashdance-related fame] It was very clear to me that it’s not real. It’s not real…I was never the little girl who thought I wanted to be famous. My first real quest that I can recall…other than wanting to be a jockey…was trying to figure out who or what God was. That really drove me for quite some time…I had a notion that there was this mystery that I didn’t really know anything about, and I wanted to try to figure it out….so fame was not my driving force.
jennifer beals— Interview with Jian Gomeshi, CBC Radio Q (16 February 2011)
"This is a highly motivated, good country. It is driven by good motives. But it is also a country with an extremely simplistic understanding of world affairs, and with still a high confidence in America’s capacity to prevail, by force if necessary. (...) This is a country of good emotions, but poor knowledge and little sophistication about the world."
zbigniew brzezinski— Interview in The National Interest Brzezinski on the Syria Crisis, Interview in The National Interest, June 24, 2013.
Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that “all of our problems” come from such goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.
Anton Chekhov— Letter to A.S. Suvorin (December 3, 1892)
It is, of course, a common prejudice that censorship is bad for art and therefore always unjustified: though, if this were so, mankind would have little in the way of an artistic heritage and we should now be living in an artistic golden age.
anthony daniels— What’s Wrong with Twinkling Buttocks? (Summer 2003)
It is important to realize that in physics today, we have no knowledge what energy is . We do not have a picture that energy comes in little blobs of a definite amount. It is not that way.
richard feynman— volume I; lecture 4, "Conservation of Energy"; section 4-1, "What is energy?"; p. 4-2
Modern European composers…have very largely received their stimulus, their rhythms and impulses from Machine Age America. They have a much older tradition of musical technique which has helped them put into musical terms a little more clearly the thoughts that originated here. They can express themselves more glibly.
George Gershwin— Page 386 (The Composer in the Machine Age (1933))
You know to make his rigid, tedious, boring paintings seem at least a little human, the Mondrian enthusiasts keep insisting that Mondrian was a great tango dancer.
Peter Greenaway— Philip (8 1/2 Women)
Then the white man hates him [the Native American], and hunts him down like the wild beasts of the forest, and so the red-crayon sketch is rubbed out, and the canvas is ready for a picture of manhood a little more like God's own image.
— "The Pilgrims of Plymouth" (Oration, December 22, 1855), in Cephas Brainerd and Eveline Warner Brainerd (eds), The New England Society Orations: Volume II. New York: The Century Co., 1901, p. 298.
Nothing like a little dance with Trollocs to ready you for sleep. Right Aviendha?
robert jordan— Mat Cauthon
When, about fifteen years ago, I walked into Arshile’s studio for the first time, the atmosphere was so beautiful that I got a little dizzy and when I came to, I was bright enough to take the hint immediately. If the bookkeepers think it necessary to make sure of where things and people came from, well then, I came from 36 Union Square ... I am glad that it is about impossible to get away from his powerful influence.
willem de kooning— ART news, Vol. 47, no 9, January 1949Address of the studio of Gorky that time
He is a little chimney and heated hot in a moment.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow— Part VI (The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858))
I most sincerely console with you for the loss of your dear little girl, but it is our duty to submit with all the resignation human nature is capable of to the dispensation of Divine Providence which bestows upon us our blessings, and consequently has a right to take them away.
george mason— Letter to his daughter Sarah Mason McCarty after the death of an infant daughter (10 February 1785), published in The Life of George Mason, 1725-1792 Vol. 2 (1892) by Kate Mason Rowland, p. 74
I must say, extreme justice is an extreme injury: For we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal; as if there were no difference to be made between the killing a man and the taking his purse, between which, if we examine things impartially, there is no likeness nor proportion. God has commanded us not to kill, and shall we kill so easily for a little money?
— Ch. 1 : Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, of the Best State of a Commonwealth
... contrary to what many believed, my father was kind and tenderhearted, especially towards his family. His forbidding sternness seemed to melt into love, kindness, and easy familiarity when he was with us. Especially with me, his acknowledged successor to the throne, he would play lightheartedly. When we were alone together, he would sing me little songs; I don't remember his ever doing this in front of others, but when only the two of us were there, he would often sing to me.
muhammad reza pahlavi— Page 45 (Mission for my Country (1961))
Oh yeah In France a skinny man Died of a big disease with a little name By chance his girlfriend came across a needle And soon she did the same At home there are seventeen-year-old boys And their idea of fun Is being in a gang called The Disciples High on crack, totin' a machine gun.
prince— Sign o' the Times
Under the summer roses When the flagrant crimson Lurks in the dusk Of the wild red leaves, Love, with little hands, Comes and touches you With a thousand memories, And asks you Beautiful, unanswerable questions.
Carl Sandburg— "Under the Harvest Moon" (1916)
Have as little suspicion as possible and conceal that.
john lancaster spalding— p. 76 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
Where it is the chief aim to teach many things, little education is given or received.
john lancaster spalding— p. 232 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
Superficial knowledge … is hurtful to those who possess true genius; for it necessarily draws them away from their main object, wastes their industry over details and subjects foreign to their needs and natural talent, and lastly does not serve, as they flatter themselves, to prove the breadth of their mind. In all ages there have been men of very moderate intelligence who knew much, and so on the contrary, men of the highest intelligence who knew very little. Ignorance is not lack of intelligence, nor knowledge a proof of genius.
vauvenargues, luc de clapiers, marquis de— p. 178. (Reflections and Maxims (1746))
I understand so very little. But I am not afraid to look: I am a good observer at last. My eyes are open, and I am not afraid.
robert charles wilson— The Observer (p. 113)
Science and mathematics Run parallel to reality , they symbolize it, they squint at it, They never touch it: consider what an explosion Would rock the bones of men into little white fragments and unsky the world If any mind for a moment touch truth .
— Robinson Jeffers, in "The Silent Shepherds" (1958)
Do not attempt to accomplish greater results by a greater effort of your little understanding, but by a greater understanding of your little effort. The greater your understanding of the power within yourself, the less effort you need to make in order to achieve.
— Walter Russell, THINK - IBM Lecture Series.
You are a sad, strange little man and you have my pity.
Buzz Lightyear— Toy Story (1995), Tim Allen
Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path, and none can say where the descent will end. – 'He that despiseth small things shall fall by little and little.'
— A Dictionary of Thoughts, p. 115.
Go gather by the humming sea Some twisted, echo-harboring shell, And to its lips thy story tell, And they thy comforters will be, rewarding in melodious guile fretful words a little while, Till they shall singing fade in ruth And dies a pearly brotherhood; For words alone are certain good: Sin, then, for this is also sooth.
— William Butler Yeats, "The Song of the Happy Shepherd".
The throstle with his note so true, The wren with little quill.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (c. 1595-96), Act III, scene 1, line 130.
