Quotes with small-scale

Quotes 241 till 260 of 533.

  • Bill Condon It is interesting to be here and to see that for certain actors they have to live in a way that you think of nobody living anymore except for in small towns. They have such elaborate double lives.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Arthur C. Clarke It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Auberon Herbert It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • William Dean Howells It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom.
    William Dean Howells
    American writer, criticus (1837 - 1920)
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  • Ben Bernanke It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bela Lugosi It took several years of hard work in small roles before I attained stardom.
    Bela Lugosi
    Hungarian-American actor (1882 - 1956)
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  • Caspar Weinberger It took the Gulf War to demonstrate that America did want more than one friend in the Mideast, and also was willing to take and make major risks to prevent a small Muslim country, Kuwait, from being overrun and in effect stolen by Iraq.
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Annie Leibovitz It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Beny Steinmetz It's disturbing to people that the small David can disturb the big Goliath.
    Beny Steinmetz
    Israeli businessman
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  • Brendan Gleeson It's interesting going between small parts and then bigger roles where you carry the film. If the writing is good, and if the people involved have integrity, then you'll do it, even if it's only five minutes on screen.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Bob Thaves It's not that Good doesn't triumph over Evil, it's that the point spread is too small.
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  • Viktor E. Frankl Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.
    Viktor E. Frankl
    Austrian psychiatrist (1905 - 1997)
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  • Aeschylus Justice turns the scale, bringing to some learning through suffering.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Cormac McCarthy Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
    Cormac McCarthy
    American novelist, playwright, short-story writer, and screenwriter (1933 - 2023)
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  • Mark Twain Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Mark Twain Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Jonathan Swift Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Jim Rohn Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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