4,467 Quotes About Littles

  • Author Henri Frédéric Amiel
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    How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.

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  • Author Herb Alpert
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    I find that it's nice to work with somebody and spin off on someone else's feelings. You get a little jaded by yourself.

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  • Author Ian Anderson
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    I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

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  • Author Iris Apfel
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    Humor is important in everything. Dress with a little humor and you can go a long way.

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  • Author Isaac Asimov
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    I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct.

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  • Author J. L. Austin
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    Words are not (except in their own little corner) facts or things: we need therefore to prise them off the world, to hold them apart from and against it, so that we can realize their inadequacies and arbitrariness, and can relook at the world without blinkers.

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  • Author James Agee
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    I prefer a little free speech to no free speech at all; but how many have free speech or the chance or the mind for it; and is not free speech here as elsewhere clamped down on in ratio of its freedom and danger?

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