Quotes with little

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  • Jerry Garcia Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, ''How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?''
    Jerry Garcia
    American singer-songwriter and guitarist (1942 - 1995)
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  • Seneca Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • George Meredith Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!
    George Meredith
    British Author (1828 - 1909)
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  • Charles Baudelaire Nothing can be done except little by little.
    Charles Baudelaire
    French poet (1821 - 1867)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Nothing has been purchased more dearly than the little bit of reason and sense of freedom which now constitutes our pride.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Epicurus Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is to little.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Gerard Manley Hopkins Nothing is so beautiful as spring - when weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens, and thrush through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring the ear, it strikes like lightning to hear him sing.
    Gerard Manley Hopkins
    English poet and Jesuit (1844 - 1889)
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  • Robert Hayden Nothing is so envied as genius, nothing so hopeless of attainment by labor alone. Though labor always accompanies the greatest genius, without the intellectual gift labor alone will do little.
    Robert Hayden
    American poet, essayist, and educator (1913 - 1980)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Claud Cockburn Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.
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  • Mark Twain Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Albert Einstein Now he has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Orson Welles Now I'm an old Christmas tree, the roots of which have died. They just come along and while the little needles fall off me replace them with medallions.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • A. E. Housman Now, of my threescore years and ten,
    Twenty will not come again,
    And take from seventy springs a score,
    It only leaves me fifty more.

    And since to look at things in bloom
    Fifty springs are little room,
    About the woodlands I will go
    To see the cherry hung with snow.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 2, st. 2-3
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Bill Hicks Now, you have to tighten your belts, because we, your leaders, mis-spent your hard-earned money. Know what would make tightening my belt a little easier? If I could tighten it around Jesse Helms' scrawny little chicken-neck.
    Rant in E-Minor
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Gerald Kersh Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.
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  • Alighieri Dante O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!
    Alighieri Dante
    Durante (Dante) degli Alighieri, Italian philosopher and poet (1265 - 1321)
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  • Herbert Spencer Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
    Herbert Spencer
    British Philosopher (1820 - 1903)
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  • Carol Leifer Obviously, at this age, I've lost people in my life. But with a parent, it's just different. I was very attached to my father and had this naive little-girl notion that he'd always be around. So I'm finding acceptance of my father's death is the hardest thing to accept.
    Carol Leifer
    American comedian, writer, producer and actress (1956 - )
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  • A. Lawrence Lowell Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.
    A. Lawrence Lowell
    American educator and legal scholar (1856 - 1943)
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