Littles Quotes - Page 20

There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

You're at your most purest, most innocent, pure state when you're doing something you've never done before. You're scared a little, you're a little vulnerable, you're kind of trying, and then you're also better, because you're trying harder than you maybe would try.

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you’d never, ever stop grieving.

If you can't believe a little in what you see on the screen, it's not worth wasting your time on cinema.

I figure the world is basically a machine. I don't know who made it, if it was the Fates, or the gods, or the capital-G god or whatever. But it chugs along the way it's supposed to most of the time. Sure, little pieces break off and stuff goes haywire once in a while, but mostly... things happen for a reason.

I've grown up, everyone's got to grow up. But there's something inside me, I'm always going to have that little sort of, how do you say, child streak.

You know, we spend so much of our lives not saying the things we want to say. The things we should say. We speak in code, we send little messages. Origami. So now, plainly, simply. I want to say that I love you both.

Being a teacher at a restaurant in the town where you lived was a little like being a TV star.

Those who know about education have no power; those who have the power know little or nothing about education.

Mary had a little putt, she needed it for par. Mary has a second putt...the first one went too far!

If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.

I found out along the way that they like you a little imperfect.

Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?'' That's how to pick a wife.

I once heard someone say that the concept of moderation seems a little extreme, and tonight...I agree.

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

I get a little nauseated, perhaps, when I hear the phrase 'freedom of the press' used as freely as it is, knowing that a large part of our proprietorial press is not free at all.

Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks. I'll eat it here.

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.

Love is a rare and valuable thing, and you don't get to choose its object. You just go around getting hung up on all the least convenient things-and if the only obstacle in your way is a little extra work, then that's the wonderful gift right there.

It is not enough for us to know what is right and to believe it is good. We must be willing to stand up and be counted. We must be willing to act in accordance with what we believe under all circumstances. It is of little value for us to believe one way if we behave contrary to that belief in our private actions or in our public performance.

Every little bit of peace I bring someone is worth the peace I never had.

A little drowsing cat is an image of perfect beatitude.

I would have given anything to keep her little. They outgrow us so much faster than we outgrow them.

My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.