Quotes with smallest

  • All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
  • The smallest gesture can mean to much to those who may need a little lift in their lives.

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  • Abraham Lincoln He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Bjornstjerne Bjornson A meaningful life - this is what we look for in art, in its smallest dewdrops as in its unleashing of the tempest. We are at peace when we have found it and uneasy when we have not.
    Bjornstjerne Bjornson
    Norwegian writer (1832 - 1910)
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  • Alberto Giacometti All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
    Alberto Giacometti
    Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker (1901 - 1966)
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  • Sallust By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.
    Sallust
    Roman historian (86 - 34)
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  • Audre Lorde Even the smallest victory is never to be taken for granted. Each victory must be applauded.
    A Burst of Light: and Other Essays (2017) 115
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Ayn Rand From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Francis Bacon God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Atom Egoyan I think if you look at the themes that are presented in the film, some are inherently social, and I think that any film which deals with the family is dealing with the smallest social unit in our society - and in a sense it is a question of scope.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Joseph De Maistre Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure.
    Joseph De Maistre
    French diplomat and philosopher (1753 - 1821)
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda Put your heart, mind, intellect and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • Oscar Wilde Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Ayn Rand Remember also that the smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
    Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal (1966)
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Samuel Butler The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Leo Tolstoy The Brahmins say that in their books there are many predictions of times in which it will rain. But press those books as strongly as you can, you can not get out of them a drop of water. So you can not get out of all the books that contain the best precepts the smallest good deed.
    Leo Tolstoy
    Russian writer (1828 - 1910)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Albert Einstein The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Stanley Kubrick The greatest nations have all acted like gangsters and the smallest like prostitutes.
    Stanley Kubrick
    American film director, screenwriter, and producer (1928 - 1999)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle The judgment may be compared to a clock or watch, where the most ordinary machine is sufficient to tell the hours; but the most elaborate alone can point out the minutes and seconds, and distinguish the smallest differences of time.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • William Hazlitt The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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