Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Votes: 2
Eleanor RooseveltMan loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle. Votes: 2
Georg C. LichtenbergHe would usually study with a small group of students, men and women.
Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount CherwellWomen in love sooner forgive great indiscretions than small infidelities.
Francois de La RochefoucauldI dislike clocks with second-hands; they cut up life into too small pieces.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de SevigneDream no small dream; it lacks magic. Dream large. Then make the dream real.
Donald Wills Douglas, Sr.It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.
Francois de La RochefoucauldMy repertoire is small, but I can make a pretty tasty pasta sauce from scratch.
Cynthia Addai-RobinsonHeed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.
Marie Anne de Vichy-Chamrond, marquise du DeffandThe flute was an alternative to being a small fish in an increasingly bigger pool filled with a number of great guitar players. Votes: 1 Ian Anderson
In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny. Votes: 1 Thomas Friedman
Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead. Votes: 4 Cherrie Moraga
Some of the smallest things on a smaller film, to me, are greater achievements than on a big film when you have the resources and the time and everything else. Votes: 3 Roger Deakins
Some people like being a big fish in a small pond, others a ferocious shark in the ocean, I rather be the ocean. In the end, fish die. Votes: 3 Behdad Sami
I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer. Votes: 1 Keenen Ivory Wayans
What I've seen around the world is if the regulatory desires are combined with things that affect consumer behavior - such as in Europe, they tax gasoline very heavily - you do get people to move to very fuel efficient cars; trade off bigger vs. smaller cars. Votes: 1 Rick Wagoner
I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church. Votes: 1 John Ortberg
Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's not even pretentious - that if everyone's going one way, I will go the other, just by some kind of spirit of defiance. Votes: 1 Charlotte Rampling
You will never find scientists leading armies into battle. You just won't. Especially not astrophysicists - we see the biggest picture there is. We understand how small we are in the cosmos. We understand how fragile and temporary our existence is here on Earth. Votes: 3 Neil deGrasse Tyson
I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen. Votes: 1 Taylor Swift
I was from a small town, and nobody really expects you to leave, especially before you graduate. That doesn't happen. Votes: 1 Taylor Swift
My father was in the army, and there wasn't too much money. Yet, we learnt to enjoy the small pleasures of life, to look at the positives. Votes: 1 Suresh Raina
In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?" Votes: 3 James Russell Lowell
Living in a small town, I knew everybody and everybody knew me. Votes: 1 Anna Nicole Smith
I've always been interested in a certain kind of sophistication in children's literature. I loved Roald Dahl; I loved the underlying nastiness of some of his - darkness of his tales. Votes: 2 David Small
Beware of the tyranny of making small changes to small things. Rather, make big changes to big things. Votes: 3 Roger Enrico
I like doing small parts, because I don't feel I'm that practised in acting. It's like making baby steps towards a bigger goal. Votes: 1 Heidi Klum
Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional. Votes: 1 Liz Vassey
I learned to put 100 percent into what you're doing. I learned about setting goals for yourself, knowing where you want to be and taking small steps toward those goals. I learned about adversity and how to get past it. Votes: 1 Kristi Yamaguchi
I was thrilled when a designer shop assistant said I was a size smaller than Madonna! Votes: 4 Anne Robinson
Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments. Votes: 1 Bryant H. McGill
When our minds are purified through karma (selfless action) and made single-pointed through up-asana (worship), we cannot remain satisfied with the small achievements in worldly life. Votes: 3 Tejomayananda
Seemingly small choices and small actions add up over time. Votes: 4 Rebecca MacKinnon
Leadership comes in small acts as well as bold strokes. Votes: 3 Carly Fiorina
When autumn darkness falls, what we will remember are the small acts of kindness: a cake, a hug, an invitation to talk, and every single rose. These are all expressions of a nation coming together and caring about its people. Votes: 7 Jens Stoltenberg
The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones. Votes: 1 Frederick William Robertson
Research has shown that even small amounts of processed food alter the chemical balance in our brain and cause negative mood swings along with noticeable dips ill energy. Votes: 2 Marilu Henner
I've come out of a small jail and entered a bigger one. Votes: 3 Chen Guangcheng
I grew up under the British system, which I think is horrific for children - very, very strict - a system that did not recognize children as being individuals. You were small animals earning the right to be human. Votes: 4 Lorraine Toussaint
The death toll from small arms dwarfs that of all other weapons systems â and in most years greatly exceeds the toll of the atomic bombs that devastated Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In terms of the carnage they cause, small arms, indeed, could well be described as 'weapons of mass destruction'. Votes: 4 Kofi Annan
It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker. Votes: 1 Chris Cleave
A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Votes: 3 Laura Ingalls Wilder
When you overlook the small blessings in your life, chances are that no amount of blessings would ever make you happy. Votes: 3 Edmond Mbiaka
We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself. Votes: 3 Martin Ryle
We have a lot of politicians who have really small brains and really big hearts. Votes: 3 Rand Paul
Even as a small child I never felt that I should have to compete with anyone - even my older brother. Votes: 1 Dwayne Hickman
I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it. Votes: 6 Bill Rancic
I understand small business growth. I was one. Votes: 3 George W. Bush
Most small business owners are not particularly sophisticated business people. That's not a criticism; they're passionate about cutting hair or cooking food, and that's why they got in the business, not because they have an MBA. Votes: 2 Andrew Mason
We've had this program for a number of years now, called 10,000 Small Businesses, where Goldman Sachs has convened a group of partners to basically give business education to small business owners. Votes: 4 Lloyd Blankfein
For so long as we condone injustice by a small but powerful group, we condone the destruction of all social stability, all real peace, all trust in man's good intentions toward his fellow man. Votes: 3 John Howard
Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York. Votes: 4 Serge Schmemann
I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut. Votes: 4 Tom Perrotta
Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams. Votes: 2 Ashley Smith
Being a display pilot is probably the thing I've been most proud of in my life. Don't really fly anymore now though. I have three small children and as most of my friends were killed in different accidents, I realised that it was probably just a matter of time before I went that way. Votes: 2 Gary Numan
There are no small churches, just small people. Votes: 3 Edwin Louis Cole
When I started writing songs, I was doing it for myself and a small circle of friends. And gradually, over the years, an audience became involved. Votes: 3 Conor Oberst
Sand is one of the best exfoliates out there! Take a handful of sand and rub it on your skin in small circles. When you're done, wash it off and presto... you get spa like skin, without the price tag. Votes: 3 Jenna Morasca
Trust is hard to come by. That's why my circle is small and tight. I'm kind of funny about making new friends. Votes: 1 Eminem
The political ramifications of our festering financial and economic crisis have reached the sidewalks of New York, as well as other large and small cities across the US. Votes: 4 Jerry A. Webman
The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city. Votes: 4 Leon Battista Alberti
Just as important as our society as a whole are our small communities: our neighborhoods, workplaces and schools. Votes: 4 Jens Stoltenberg
If you think of the ideas of open source applied to information in an encyclopedia, you get to Wikipedia - lots and lots of small contributions that bubble up to something that's meaningful. Votes: 3 Matt Mullenweg
September is a sweep of dusky, purple asters, a sumac branch swinging a fringe of scarlet leaves, and the bittersweet scene of wild grapes when I walk down the lane to the mailbox. September is a golden month of mellow sunlight and still clear days. ... Small creatures in the grass, as if realizing their days are numbered, cram the night air with sound. Everywhere goldenrod is full out. Votes: 3 Jean Hersey
I'm very active. I've got two small daughters and four restaurants in three cities. I'm busy. Votes: 3 Geoffrey Zakarian
Remember that your reputation is everything. You build your personal brand through everything you do, whether big actions or small decisions, and that brand will stay with you throughout your career. Votes: 4 Jan Fields
Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in. Votes: 4 Kevin Henkes
Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in. Votes: 1 Kevin Henkes
I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences. Votes: 4 Rosabeth Moss Kanter
I stand fearlessly for small dogs, the American Flag, motherhood and the Bible. That's why people love me. Votes: 3 Art Linkletter
I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations. Votes: 1 Eliezer Yudkowsky
Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die. Votes: 2 David Levithan
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men. Votes: 4 Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our small ears never had such a workout as on the Fourth of July, hearing not only our own bursting crackers but also those of our friends, and often the boom of homemade cannon shot off by daring boys of 16 years, ready to lose a hand if it blew up. Votes: 3 Paul Engle
Success is the sum of small efforts - repeated day in and day out. Votes: 3 Robert Collier
I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward. Votes: 3 Sara Zarr
Something in her small eyes caught the sunlight and glistened, like a glacier on the faraway face of a mountain. Votes: 5 Haruki Murakami
Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets. Votes: 4 Carl Honore
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality. Votes: 4 Elizabeth Gilbert
All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms. Votes: 4 Zac Goldsmith
I love the Wendy Syred boutique in Taunton. She has fantastic off-the-wall stuff, such as Vivienne Westwood. And I always have huge success in Omah Shoes, which is also in Taunton. I've got such small feet - three and a half - but I always find my size there. Votes: 4 Kate O'Mara
I can keep picking small fights, or brave the big one. Time to screw my courage. Or go down trying. Votes: 3 Gayle Forman
When I was a child, my father used to take me for walks, often along a river or by the sea. We would pass people fishing, perhaps reeling in their lines with struggling fish hooked at the end of them. Once I saw a man take a small fish out of a bucket and impale it, still wriggling, on an empty hook to use as bait. Votes: 2 Peter Singer
What is green? The grass is green, With small flowers between. What is violet? Clouds are violet In the summer twilight. What is orange? Why, an orange, Just an orange! Votes: 3 Christina Rossetti
Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at her because she had that rare virtue of never existing completely except at the opportune moment. Votes: 3 Gabriel García Márquez
A 'Friends' shoot night could extend well into the small hours of the morning. Votes: 2 Warren Littlefield
Even small gestures of kindness have the potential to reap enormous rewards. Only the shortsighted man believes otherwise. Votes: 3 Erika Johansen
Doctors are human animals. They want to be loved, they are tribal, they instinctually favor stories over scientific evidence, they make mistakes, and even small gifts make them susceptible to being biased. Votes: 4 Alice Dreger
Being a mother of two myself - and two small girls - I think that single parenting is hard. Votes: 4 Sarah Clarke
I have been doing good deeds since I was just a small child. Votes: 1 Chen Guangbiao
If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live. Votes: 6 Ron Paul
I have a very small group of friends that I've had - the three of them - for the majority of my life. Votes: 3 Haylie Duff
We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history. Votes: 7 Sonia Johnson
I have a very small group of friends that I've had - the three of them - for the majority of my life. Votes: 2 Haylie Duff
Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere. Votes: 3 J. R. R. Tolkien
Life should be blissful, and blissful doesn't mean just a small happiness. It's huge. It is profound. Votes: 3 David Lynch
My mother helped me to get past that. She was always there for me, until she dies. I remember she told me once, about big hearts and small hearts, and that not everyone could be blessed with a big one that had room to care for a lot of people. She promised me that mine was big, and that I was the lucky one for it. Votes: 3 Johanna Lindsey
My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small. Votes: 1 Alanna Ubach
As we say in the American Institute of Wine and Food, small helpings, no seconds. A little bit of everything. No snacking. And have a good time. Votes: 3 Julia Child
We are all inspired by the incredible stories of handicapped people who write novels with their toes, cancer victims who run marathons for cancer research, bereaved parents who set up memorial funds for their lost children. How much easier is it for most of us to be small heroes simply by taking responsibility for our daily lives and transcending our ordinary obstacles? Votes: 3 Danah Zohar
Back in East Texas, all three networks have stations in my hometown of Tyler, and for a town that small, 85,000, to have all three networks, they all have their own news programs, six and 10, and they're always looking for news. Back when I was a judge, they were constantly coming to the courthouse and asking for comments. Votes: 1 Louie Gohmert
The corridor is hardly ever found in small houses, apart from the verandah, which also serves as a corridor. Votes: 4 Stephen Gardiner
I don't have big ideas. I sometimes have small ideas, which seem to work out. Votes: 4 Matt Mullenweg
Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see toads, small insects, a whole host of life that prospers in that miniature environment. A lumberman will look at a forest and see so many board feet of lumber. I see a living city. Votes: 3 Sylvia Earle
I do not need wireless access to Wikipedia. I would prefer to stir-fry my own small intestines than to have continual access to a site where the entry for Klingon is longer than the entry for Latin. Votes: 3 Tara Brabazon
I could have made a small film and kept all the money from 'Life is Beautiful'. Instead, I spent more money than I had on 'Pinocchio', a very risky film. Votes: 2 Roberto Benigni
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. Votes: 2 Truman Capote
If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way. Votes: 3 Sarah Doudney
Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her language. Votes: 1 David Small
What is negotiation but the accumulation of small lies leading to advantage? Votes: 3 Felix Dennis
If you only take small risks, you are only entitled to a small life. Votes: 5 Robin Sharma
My legs are nice, my lips are shapely, and my breasts are pretty. They popped up when I was 11 and they weren't small then. I was teased, but now those kids wish they had what I have! Votes: 1 Queen Latifah
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. Votes: 4 Jim Rohn
I think stupid people are surprised that I'm Australian. It's a small-minded; we live in a global community, but I suppose some people still are small-minded. Votes: 1 Iggy Azalea
I don't think each of us receives one harvest only--an after-death sort of payment for services rendered. I think we all get a lifetime full of little harvests--those small miracles that stand out from the rest of life, when we are one with nature, each other, and ourselves. Votes: 3 Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard
The specialist is one who never makes small mistakes while moving toward the grand fallacy. Votes: 3 Marshall McLuhan
Our relationships with people are formed by small moments - and relationships are crucial in business. Votes: 3 Tom Rath
You can have small moments of happiness in life. You certainly can't expect years and years of it. Votes: 2 Donatella Versace
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes. Votes: 2 Stanley Kubrick
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside. Votes: 3 Gustave Courbet
Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character. Votes: 3 Adriana Trigiani
Great opportunities may come once in a lifetime, but small opportunities surround us every day. Votes: 3 Rick Warren
Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages. Votes: 3 Jo Brand
It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before. Votes: 2 Luc Besson
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry. Votes: 2 Richard P. Feynman
I try to find hope in struggle and resistance in small places as much as I can. Votes: 4 Danny Glover
Fall is not the end of the gardening year; it is the start of next year's growing season. The mulch you lay down will protect your perennial plants during the winter and feed the soil as it decays, while the cleaned up flower bed will give you a huge head start on either planting seeds or setting out small plants. Votes: 3 Thalassa Cruso
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. Votes: 3 H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Small things have a way of overmastering the great. This small press can destroy a kingdom. Votes: 3 Sonya Levien
We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems. Votes: 4 Abdolkarim Soroush
If you've got an idea, start today. There's no better time than now to get going. That doesn't mean quit your job and jump into your idea 100% from day one, but there's always small progress that can be made to start the movement. Votes: 3 Kevin Systrom
Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity. Votes: 1 William Lyon Mackenzie King
Comedy is learning to be funny, and you learn to be funny in small rooms with young audiences. Votes: 3 Joan Rivers
There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. Votes: 2 Anais Nin
I knew what type of player I was: a free agent, a small kid who came from a small school. Votes: 2 Victor Cruz
We have domesticated crops over a very long period of time, like tens of thousands of years. And crops get - seeds get carried. Sometimes, if they're very small seeds, they get scattered off trucks. Pollen travels. Votes: 3 Nina Fedoroff
A brain is a society of very small, simple modules that cannot be said to be thinking, that are not smart in themselves. But when you have a network of them together, out of that arises a kind of smartness. Votes: 4 Kevin Kelly
Two brothers and a sister, my niece, my nephew... we're a very small group. We're very close, very tight-knit. We spend every holiday weekend together. Votes: 1 Cristela Alonzo
I always thought Tinker bell was really cool. I'd like to be able to shrink down to a really small size and fly around to places, play tricks on people... you know, fairy-like stuff. Votes: 3 Georgina Reilly
Mama had her little cough. Once or twice, some quiet sobbing, out of sight... Or the slamming of kitchen cupboard doors. That was her language. Votes: 1 David Small
I think that often times Hollywood panders to the cliches of small town life, specifically Southern small town life, and I think that this movie does the opposite. Votes: 1 Josh Lucas
I realized I was a country person - I'm just not used to small spaces. Votes: 4 Alice Walker
Whoever wants to reach a distant goal must take small steps. Votes: 8 Saul Bellow
Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They can build buildings, parks, signs, as well as things that do not exist in Reality, such as vast hovering overhead light shows and special neighborhoods where the rules of three-dimensional spacetime are ignored. Votes: 3 Neal Stephenson
Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can be described as a series of mistakes, one right after another with a little space in between. Votes: 4 Richard Carlson
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk. Votes: 6 Elizabeth Bowen
At Rackspace, I'm building a media house which will celebrate small teams who are having world-wide impacts through their building or use of new technology. Votes: 4 Robert Scoble
And the air was full of Thoughts and Things to Say. But at times like these, only the Small Things are ever said. Big Things lurk unsaid inside. Votes: 3 Arundhati Roy
Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Votes: 6 Mother Teresa
The first thing I tell clients is get off the couch! Just start making some small lifestyle changes such as walking to work instead of driving or taking the stairs instead of the lift. The small things you can change all add up. Votes: 1 Jessie Pavelka
It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir. Votes: 7 Charles Comiskey
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town. Votes: 8 Truman Capote
I was born in Sarnia, Ontario; a small town, it's where oil was pretty much discovered in North America. Votes: 1 Chris Hadfield
In small towns, bored teenagers turn their eyes longingly to the exciting doings in the big cities, pining for urban amenities like hipster bars and farmers' markets and indie-rock festivals. Like everyone else, they want the vibrant and they will not be denied. Votes: 1 Thomas Frank
I grew up in a suburb of Ohio, in a small town, and I resonated with that small-town feeling where everybody knows your business. Votes: 1 Rachael Harris
I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities. Votes: 1 Sarah Palin
The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together. Votes: 1 Gabriel Byrne
Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games. Votes: 1 Faith Hill
I was just glad to meet somebody outside of my group of small town friends who was into music. Somebody else who had aspirations to do something more than sing at a record hop. Votes: 3 John Oates
I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there's always the town gossip - 'Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household?' So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut. Votes: 1 Garrett Hedlund
The federal government has failed us, so we, the elected officials of small-town America, are getting tough with illegal immigration. Votes: 1 Lou Barletta
Living in a rural setting exposes you to so many marvelous things - the natural world and the particular texture of small-town life, and the exhilarating experience of open space. Votes: 6 Susan Orlean
I love Miranda Lambert; I think she's wonderful. I love the song 'Love Letters' and 'Famous in a Small Town.' Votes: 1 Patty Loveless
There is sort of a small town mentality on the east coast of Canada. Votes: 3 Martha MacIsaac
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game - and do it by watching first some high school or small-town teams. Votes: 1 Jacques Barzun
I have lived most of my life in small towns, and I'm in the habit of knowing and talking to everyone. Votes: 1 Ellen Gilchrist
As the 29th state to join the United States of America, it is our turn to show the nation what represents Iowa. Our commitment to quality education, hard work, and small-town values are all represented in the Iowa quarter. Votes: 1 Leonard Boswell
I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. Votes: 3 Lenny Bruce
Incrementalism: In the first generation, the goal of the movement was wholesale social and cultural transformation. Small, incremental victories were too little given the magnitude of America's moral decay. Since 1988, the new leaders have recognized that incrementalism is the surest path to success in political competition. The current movement is committed to securing small victories now, postponing for the long-term more fundamental changes in society and politics. Votes: 7 Kenneth D. Wald
My family actually lived in the same village for about 400 years. They had great stability until the last century. People lived and intermarried in small villages. Votes: 4 Roger Bannister
It is the still, small voice that the soul heeds, not the deafening blasts of doom. Votes: 3 William Dean Howells
What I've seen around the world is if the regulatory desires are combined with things that affect consumer behavior - such as in Europe, they tax gasoline very heavily - you do get people to move to very fuel efficient cars; trade off bigger vs. smaller cars. Votes: 1 Rick Wagoner
I don't actually keep the dresses I've worn during other friends' weddings. Closets are small in New York City - I can't be squandering space on bridesmaid dresses. Votes: 1 Jill Davis
Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life. Votes: 3 Barbara Kingsolver
It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it. Votes: 8 Steven Wright
I love San Francisco so much. I call it the Emerald City and have been coming here since 1992. I have a few old friends that live here, and my aunt and uncle live in Oakland. I think it's a magical city - it's big, sexy and very 'cosmo' with a small-town feel. Votes: 2 Andy Cohen
Don't sweat the small stuff...and it's all small stuff. Votes: 4 Richard Carlson
I have no problem with thinking small. Sometimes you have to think small first in order to think big. Votes: 3 Rahki
In Globalization 1.0, which began around 1492, the world went from size large to size medium. In Globalization 2.0, the era that introduced us to multinational companies, it went from size medium to size small. And then around 2000 came Globalization 3.0, in which the world went from being small to tiny. Votes: 1 Thomas Friedman