Quotation Explorer - 'Smaller'

If the world got any smaller, we'd all have to go on a diet. - Tom Robbins
Our dreams will always tell us what we are missing in our lives. The smaller we make them tells God how little faith we have in him to make them come true. - Shannon L. Alder
The smaller the government, the less the need to manipulate politicians. - John Stossel No They can t
The higher you rise in the business ladder, the smaller your balls become. - Santosh Kalwar
Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral. - Robert Orben
If the world gets any smaller I'll end up living next door to myself. - Tom Robbins
John Smith: Mankind doesn't need warfare and bloodshed to prove itself. Everyday life can provide honour and valour. Let's hope that from now on this country can find its heroes in smaller places. In the most ordinary of deeds. - Paul Cornell
When you're depressed you retreat and you go into a smaller world. This is why Brighton worked well for the story, because it's a smaller world than London. - Sara Sheridan
The smaller you get—the smaller life makes you—the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped. - Tullian Tchividjian
The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt. - Thomas Merton
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction. - Leo Tolstoy
Life never goes according to plan. That's okay, because often our plans are much smaller than life intends. Probably EASIER, but smaller. - Stacey T. Hunt
Grace was pouring out everywhere, from hidden sounds, into Els's damaged auditory cortex. And all that secret, worldwide composition said the same thing: listen closer, listen smaller, listen lighter, to any noise at all, and hear what the world will still sound like, long after your concert ends. - Richard Powers
How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it. - G.K. Chesterton
When you travel, somehow, the world gets both bigger and smaller, simultaneously. - Richie Norton
The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly. - Friedrich Nietzsche
You go back. You search for what made you happy when you were smaller. We are all grown up children, really... So one should go back and search for what was loved and found to be real.
Problem can get bigger or smaller, it all depends on how we view it individually. - Bamigboye Olurotimi
it is an ocean of burning oil I am cast adrift upon, no sea’s repose; I pass from waking agonies… to the semiconscious trance of torment in which the smaller, earlier, deeper rings of the brain know only that the nerves scream, the body aches, and there is no one to turn crying to for comfort. - Iain Banks
A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller. - Paul Klee
Most people do not mind having a house that is smaller and/or a car that is cheaper than their neighbours’, as long as they each earn and have more money than their neighbours, and, equally important, their neighbours know that. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Mistakes are part of your life; it is impossible to live a mistake-free life! You have made mistakes and you shall make mistakes! Just let them be fewer and smaller! - Mehmet Murat ildan
I hallowed out my Bible to put another, smaller Bible inside. - Christy Leigh Stewart
Take the next little step-the smaller you make it, the more likely you'll take it.. - Jill Badonsky
No wonder the sky had to be blotted out by advertisements. The stars drowned with lights. If everyone could see beyond Coalition horizons, perhaps they'd see the titans of humanity for what they were: tiny creatures, smaller than insects, and in the scale of things, every bit as insignificant. - S.J. Kincaid
The best way to realize the pleasure of feeling rich is to live in a smaller house than your means would entitle you to have. - Edward Clarke
Bullies were only triumphant when they made other people feel smaller than they themselves felt. - Jessica Haight and Stephanie Robinson
The coward says in his heart There is no love. Because, standing in the shadows of the big, grand, and powerful existence of love, his small spirit is left feeling even smaller and less significant. And so he chooses to deny the existence of love altogether. Because he is too small to have it. - C. JoyBell C.
Incidentally, although the Cistercians did much to improve the quality of sheep, the animal remained much smaller than its modern descendants; as late as the early eighteenth century a sheep wasn't much bulkier than a Labrador Dog. - Clarissa Dickson Wright
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. - Cherie Carter-Scott
In this present moment we are either smaller than we once were or else are on our knees. - Alan Moore
Don't worry, the spider is smaller than you.""Yeah... So is a grenade. - teenagerquotes
Anger is smaller than the one behind him. (La colère, c'est plus petit - Que celui derrière lui) - Charles de Leusse
You kids today have it easy. When I was a kid everything was HUGE. My dad was nearly four times bigger than me. You couldn't even see the tops of counters.... Then gradually everything became smaller until it was the manageable size it is today.
In this ocean of time, life is smaller than a drop of water. To create an impact, create a massive wave with the power of your infinite love. - Debasish Mridha
Think big: Universe is a village, a small place! When you think big, all will get smaller! - Mehmet Murat ildan
You could try making sense out of the universe, but you were too small and the parts you needed to see were too large or even smaller. - Kathryn Davis
Cut your big mountain into smaller hills, and then start to climb. Before you know it, you're done! - Miranda A. Uyeh
Sacrificing a part of yourself so others can go on to fafill there greatness, their destiny. Is greatness in itself but in a much smaller way that won't be written about or put in history books. But it is far more great in many ways. - Thomas Brodie Sangster
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. - Leonardo da Vinci
The world has become a much smaller place, there is no longer room for hatred. - R.A.Delmonico
The higher you rise, the smaller your enemies. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If your glass seems half empty, use a smaller glass. - Wayne Gerard Trotman
Self-confidence. Let's fight the demon that makes you look smaller than you truly are. - Daniel Vlcek
In proportion as the mass of citizens who possess political rights increases, and the number of elected ruler’s increases, the actual power is concentrated and becomes the monopoly of a smaller and smaller group of individuals. - Paul Lafargue
We need another universe, a smaller one; with more Earth's and less Saturn's; more alive and less dead! - Mehmet Murat ildan
The total number of people who understand relativistic time, even after eighty years since the advent of special relativity, is still much smaller than the number of people who believe in horoscopes. - Yuval Ne'eman
The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. - Aesop
I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one. - H. Jackson Brown Jr.
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatest greatness is. - Phillip Brooks
There’s no need to look back. What’s behind you is smaller than what’s in front you. - Robert Tew
I've never been able to understand 'faith' myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones - by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one. - Robert A. Heinlein
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am. - Susan Sontag
A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction. - Leo Tolstoy
. . .the real world is much smaller than the imaginary. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Self confidence. Let's fight the demon that make us look smaller than we truly are. Your dream is worth it. - Daniel Vlcek
The longer we delay in confronting the obstacle in our path, the bigger the difficulties grow and the smaller we become; or, to put it another way, the longer we drag a problem with us, the heavier it becomes. - A. G. Roemmers
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands. - H. L. Mencken
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.
When we were together before, the world was small to us, but as you grew bigger to life and the world became desirous to living, we became smaller to each other. - Anthony Liccione
YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,'said the dewdrop to the lake. - Rabindranath Tagore
A smaller government reflecting the needs of the middle class and poor is superior to a big government reflecting the needs of the privileged and powerful. - Robert B. Reich
CONDOLE, v.i. To show that bereavement is a smaller evil than sympathy. - Ambrose Bierce
Self confidence. Let's fight the demons that makes us look smaller than we truly are. Your dream is worth it. - Daniel Vlcek
In Africa, there is a birthrate trap: a higher standard of living will lead to smaller families but smaller families will not lead to a higher standard of living. - Christopher Hitchens
Since Genesis 3 we have been addicted to setting our sights on something, someone, smaller than Jesus. - Tullian Tchividjian
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are. - Cherie Carter-Scott
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