Tiny Quotes

Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person. (François de La Rochefoucauld)
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean. View quote
Anna Freud
Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self. View quote
George Eliot
No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
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. View quote
Neil Armstrong
Being tiny has been difficult for me in a business that regarded physicality as the most important part of your life. View quote
Estelle Getty
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. View quote
José Saramago
I have a little bit of a belly, a tiny bit of pooch. It's the one thing I don't want to lose. I just like having some softness. If I lose that, then Tom might leave me. View quote
Nicole Kidman
I know I'm only one human being and I'm only making one tiny contribution and it's nothing more than that. View quote
Halle Berry
Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life. (Karen Armstrong)
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. View quote
Ann Druyan
It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet. View quote
Ann Druyan
Everyone here would die for the sake of truth. Everyone here lies constantly for the tiniest chance of personal gain. This is what it means to be a scientist. View quote
Greg Egan
If a woman hasn't got a tiny streak of harlot in her, she's a dry stick as a rule. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
Keep up the good work, if only for a while, if only for the twinkling of a tiny galaxy. View quote
Wisława Szymborska
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. View quote
Golda Meir
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking. View quote
Dave Barry
True life is lived when tiny changes occur. View quote
Leo Tolstoy
The really big difference is that what you make with a molecular machine can be completely precise, down to the tiniest degree of detail that can exist in the world. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
It doesn't hurt. Nothing hurts except the small smiles and blushes that flash across the room like tiny sparrows. (Laurie Halse Anderson)
I think that if you keep banging at the door all you need is a little foothold, a little tiny foothold, and then the rest will take care of itself. View quote
Branford Marsalis
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward. View quote
Patrick Stewart
Gymnastics uses every single part of your body, every little tiny muscle that you never even knew. View quote
Shannon Miller
I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important. View quote
Tove Jansson