Quotation Explorer - 'Tiny'

The coast redwood is a so-called relict species. It is a tiny remnant of a life form that once spread in splendor and power across the face of nature. The redwood has settled down in California to live near the sea, the way many retired people do. - Richard Preston
No matter how tiny you look, you can lead huge men if you have what the huge men don't have. - Michael Bassey Johnson
Through the passage of my life I have learned that the power of positive association is so much stronger than any amount of negativity in the world. No matter how dark it is, a tiny beam of light is all it takes to kill the darkest of darkness. - Asma Naqi
A tiny spark ignites a flame, just as a helping hand can do the same - Nonnie Jules
A tiny company, ‘the aware’, we have taken up civilization’s fiercest weapons to fight against the dark army of the masses whose leaders are hunger and stupidity. These weapons are the smile and the lie. - Iwan Goll
What would I put in my bottom drawer? I would put only sharp objects, the clean lines of broken glass, the honed steel of paring knives, the tiny saw-teeth of bread knives and the soothing edges of razor blades, I weigh knives in my hands like strange comforters. - Kate Atkinson
Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. - Golda Meir
What happens to us are tiny matters compare to our motivation to live through every tribulations. - Lailah Gifty Akita
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us - Henry Stanley Haskins
As she cried, I could feel growing there, as had once before, a presence between us: the tiny perfect form of Sherry nestled between her parents' bodies. Our bodies were shaped by her absence, by the almost unbearable weight of her loss. - Robert J. Wiersema
It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead - Nick Hornby
Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one. - Ann Druyan
I mean, I don't think you're supposed to have sex with people you don't love. I know, I know, I know. People do it all the time. But I really think you're supposed to be a little bit in love with them. At least a tiny bit. - Sherman Alexie
It is really hurting; how big media plagiarize everyday and no one judges them; The real heroes are those tiny and small self-funded websites and blogs that provide all primary data for them to survive and it will continue as far they exist - M.F. Moonzajer
I loved a woman whose beauty Like the moon moved all the humming heavens to music till the stars with their tiny teeth burst into song and I fell on the ground before her while the sky hardened and she laughed and turned me down softly, I was so young. - Peter Meinke
Whoever thought a tiny candy bar should be called fun size was a moron. - Glenn Beck
Love! What a searing, torturing, intolerably sweet thing it was - this possession of body, soul and mind! With something at its core as fine and remote and purely spiritual as the tiny blue spark in the heart of the unbreakable diamond. - L.M. Montgomery
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
...light overcomes darkenss. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe, [darkness] can be defeated. - Dave Barry
(the modern writer’s aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole. - Seán Ó Faoláin
Sometimes I feel so alone in the world. A tiny speck of nothing in a sea of emptiness. - Edwyna Hughes
We have one precious life: do something extraordinary today, even if it's tiny. A pebble starts the avalanche. - K.A. Laity
There are some moments you won't completely heal from, those rare ones you will take torn open to the grave but throughout all the big moments that shake you up there will be countless tiny experiences that help you laugh all over again. - Nikki Rowe
Whenever that tiny bulb of revelation flashes over your head, it almost always follows a period of uncertainty. These periods are usually dark and distorted, with nary a sliver of light, yet they serve us because they contribute to understanding. - Nichole Beamer
The Lord has filled my tiny pot until it spilleth over; I am happy to give. - K.A. Hosein
True life is lived when tiny changes occur. - Leo Tolstoy
Tiny Men, hold tall grudges - J. Macken
What is this thing? trading passions for a tiny bit of acceptance. - Charlotte Eriksson
The same way that a tiny thought in our childhood can manifest thirty years later as an anxiety disorder, one tiny thought right now can manifest just six months from now as unconditional love and unshakable happiness. - Vironika Tugaleva
But the sun will rise the day after tomorrowA millennium without us silences our last echoTo tiny fragments even our plastics are reducedIn Eden Reincarnate all life but ours is renewed - A.A. Patawaran
Real religion begins where the tiny cocoons of belief systems end. - Abhijit Naskar
Peace is the opposite of dreaming. It’s built slowly and surely through brutal compromises and tiny victories that you don’t even see. It’s a messy business, bringing peace into the world. - Bono
holding a tiny dixie cup in my hand makes me feel like a giant human being that can crush things - Brandon Scott Gorrell
As life begins with a tiny little thing, success begins with tiny little steps forward. - Debasish Mridha
Waves of positivity and possibilities send tiny ripples of hope to wash away the walls of negativity. - Debasish Mridha
There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us. - Walt Kelly
Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tinny blast on tiny trumpets, we shall meet the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us. - Walt Kelly
Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is thread, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years. - Simone Signoret
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse. - Edward Abbey
What are you gonna help us with? That very tiny used condom? - Booth
look, tiny - i’m trying to be on my best behavior, but you have to understand - i’m always standing on the edge of something bad. and sometimes someone like you can make me look the other way, so that i don’t know how close i am to falling over. but i always end up turning my head. always. - David Levithan
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. - Neil Armstrong
Always believe you can change the world even if it’s only a tiny bit, because every tiny bit needed someone who changed it. - Caitlin Moran
Well I was out in my four door With the top down. And I looked up and there they were: Millions of tiny teardrops Just sort of hanging there And I didn't know whether to laugh or cry And I said to myself: What next big sky? - Laurie Anderson
Everyone understands the pain that accompanies death,but genuine pain doesn't live in the spirit,nor in the air, nor in our lives,nor on these terraces of billowing smoke.The genuine pain that keeps everything awakeis a tiny, infinite burnon the innocent eyes of other systems. - Federico García Lorca
People ask me all the time, "Where do your ideas come from?" So, to clear up this question...I keep my ideas inside the mind of a tiny man who is tied up in my closet! - C.K. Webb
I would suggest that our imagination is a tiny shard of God’s infinite genius that we have within us simply because we were created in God’s image. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Through the passage of my life I have learned, that the power of positive association is so much stronger than any amount of negativity in the world. No matter how dark it is, a tiny beam of light is all it takes to kill the darkest of darkness. - Asma Naqi
The thing with thoughts is that they die, like everything else. But almost everything else leaves a trace behind, even if it's a tiny carcass, some proof that it existed. Unless thoughts are spoken or written or sung or acted upon, there's no evidence that they were ever there. - Adi Alsaid
Humankind spends so much time admiring and ritualizing the inventions of humankind! And yet humankind is such a tiny part of all there is. -- Nigel S. Hey, Wonderment(Matador, 2012) - Nigel Hey
The stars looked down at me from infinite space. We are tiny, they said, but you are insignificant. - Shane Maloney
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song! - Jerry Van Amerongen
The Universe had no obligation to create anything at all, yet life managed to make a grand entrance on at least one tiny pale blue dot in a truly spectacular way. - Mathew Anderson
If a tiny bud dares unfold to a wakening new world, if a narrow blade of grass dares to poke its head up from an unlit earth, then surely I can rise and stretch my winter weary bones, surely I can set my face to the spring sun. Surely, I too can be reborn. - Toni Sorenson
Look at yourself from the space! You are very little, you are so tiny! But there is something big in you: Your great ideas! Even from the space they look big because they have the power to change the universe, to change the space! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Nature has always been and always will be, as far as my tiny brain can understand, miraculous. Except, nature won't last because the world won't. - Patrick Downes
There was a brown substance inside and Chase had no doubt: it was heroin. Only a tiny amount, but very pure." - Cutting Right to the Chase Vol.2 - Stefania Mattana
The world is moved not only by the mighty shoves of the heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. - Helen Keller
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. - Gustave Flaubert
Hope is that tiny flame in a candle that continues to glow even after the wax around it has melted. - Hema Aushat
Aren’t faeries supposed to be, like, really tiny? With wings and a wand and faerie dust?I’m not Tinker Bell! - Rachel Morgan
Her voice, unfolding like a tiny bright memory in the darkest, furthest corner of my mind. - Kami Garcia
If we can connect in some tiny way with a human that doesn't agree with us, then maybe we won't blow up the planet. - Nancy White
Doon was touched. Kenny looked like a tiny little wisp, but there was something strong inside him. --People of Sparks-- - Jeanne DuPrau
A Christian sits in his or her well and thinks that the whole world is his or her well. The Jew sits in his or her little well and thinks that it is the whole world. A Muslim sits cooped up in his or her tiny well and believes it to be the whole universe. The same goes for a Hindu and all others. - Abhijit Naskar
Back then, he'd have to leave at the end of August for the start of school, so the week before Labor Day became it's own tiny season of gloom, like a hundred Sunday nights crowded together. - Charles Frazier
Of course , if I am nothing but an ego, and woman is nothing but another ego, then there is really no vital difference between us. Two little dolls of conscious entities, squeaking when you squeeze them. And with a tiny bit of an extraneous appendage to mark which is which... - D.H. Lawrence
There is nothing to save, now all is lost,but a tiny core of stillness in the heartlike the eye of a violet. - D.H. Lawrence
Enjoy the tiny unexplainable second. You can learn whatever you want. - Jerril Thomas Abraham
Trust is that tiny thread that holds your brand together; when trust is torn or tampered with, you will have a broken brand; your business will fall. - Bernard Kelvin Clive
Length of a straight line is determined by the two tiny dots on both ends - mads
Learn from the ants- how a tiny heart is big enough to love, help and care about another living existence. - Munia Khan
What lies behind us & what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. - - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time. - Diane Ackerman
I love it when there’s nothingLeft to see but tiny spots of what’s still lightStories piercing the night. - Anna Jae
I was born with an adult head and a tiny body. Like a 'Peanuts' character. - Jon Stewart
What happens to us are tiny matters compare to our hopeful and positive mental attitude to survive the situation. - Lailah Gifty Akita
It's not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow, and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girl's identity to appearance. - Peggy Orenstein
The miracles of our dreams lie beneath our foot soles -- in each and every tiny step we take as we journey to the stars… I reckon the destination isn’t the only miracle. - Besa Kosova
Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me. - Anne Sexton
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. - Dave Barry
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. - Helen Keller
You can never live in the past. You always live in the tiny gap between the present and the future. - Debasish Mridha
The great are eternally at the mercy of tiny men. And also, tiny madwomen. - Salman Rushdie
You know, I can see two tiny pictures of myself And there's one in each of your eyes. And they're doin' everything I do. Every time I light a cigarette, they light up theirs. I take a drink and I look in and they're drinkin' too. It's drivin' me crazy. It's drivin' me nuts. - Laurie Anderson
I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? - George Carlin
It is often the tiny steps that define the big moments in our dreams. - Chris Burkmenn
I will never abandon one opportunity and wait for another. We have not reached the goal we are striving for. What you see now is nothing compared to our vision…just tiny parts of what lies ahead. - Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
And she saw beauty even in the tiny sparkles of dust suspended in the air, high above. - Rocio Sanchez
It is my mood which decides the weather, it is my mood which brings the tiny changes to humankind. - Santosh Kalwar
The frog in the well knows nothing more grand than its own tiny well. - Abhijit Naskar
When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered...the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls...bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of their essence, the immense edifice of memory - Marcel Proust
SUCCESS IS NOT SECURED WITH RELIANCE ON EACH OTHER, BUT SUM OF THE TINY CONTRIBUTION OF EACH MEMBER OF THE TEAM - Mohamed Osman Abbasheikh
That was one tiny trailer when both girls wanted to watch TV or use the computer or the bathroom at the same time. - Kathy Bryson, Fighting Mad
The bottom half of the page had descended into a doodle of a tiny man giving the middle finger to a giant, angry eagle with razor-sharp talons. Beneath it, the caption: To Mock a Killing Bird. - Seth Grahame-Smith
He causes huge bodies like sun to proclaim His Majesty through His Names the All-Gracious, Great, reciting: ' O Glorious One, O Great One, O Mighty One', while tiny animate creatures like flies and fish proclaim His Mercy, reciting: 'O Gracious One, O Compassionate One, O Generous One - Said Nursî
Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope. - Robert F. Kennedy
A mighty flame follows a tiny spark. - Dante Alighieri
Tiny acts of kindness can have BIG results. - Elizabeth Bourgeret
Whenever you have good dreams never let it go , because dreams are tiny seeds which germinate result into fruitful tomorrow . - Osunsakin Adewale
Being on Facebook as an Author and listing your books is like being a tiny single word in a giant dictionary! If people don’t search for you they don’t find you. They don’t take notice of you. They don’t even know you exist! Thats the hard reality of Socialmedia! - Lily Amis
I always tell my students, about the biggest baddest things in life you must try to write small and light, save the big writing for the unexpected tiny thing that always makes or breaks a story. - Pam Houston
Cherish the fabulous, the fantastic, the beautiful, the graceful, the moments of abandon, laughter, quirkiness. Cherish the tiny incredible details, the gigantic & varied display, and the infinite depths - of life. - Jay Woodman
I write so others might contemplate things that are out of the ordinary. I write to make people feel—to cause laughter and tears and anger at injustice. I write so the world will imagine and wonder at crazy, incredible truths. I write to have a tiny bit of influence on a universal conscience. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Perhaps it is the language that chooses the writers it needs, making use of them so that each might express a tiny part of what it is. - José Saramago
Chase opened the mini fridge. Wanna drink? He asked.No thank you and you shouldn’t either.Oh I definitely need one, besides it numbs the hunger. He grabbed a few of the tiny bottles from the door shelf.Then by all means get your drink on. Samuel chuckled. - S.L. Ross
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