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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about danger

Small projects need much more help than great.

Small projects need much more help than great.

Quote by Dante Alighieri about philosophy, help, need

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger...

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Quote by Francis Bacon about philosophy, god

Small, teething children will chew on the most valuable...

Small, teething children will chew on the most valuable thing within reach. The same goes for puppies and juvenile tigers, bears, or crocodiles.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about mother, children, things

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great...

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Quote by Blaise Pascal about mind

The small gifts Small gifts of air and tired light, Of a more distant God. Vague signs On the back of his graphs. When everything you have love is sinking slowly In air, light, in the mud of brain... And remain... What remain? Small...

Quote by Alexandru Musina about gifts, air, light, astrology, brain, god, things, dream, fall, eyes

There are no small parts; there are only small actors.

There are no small parts; there are only small actors.

Quote by Melanie Griffith about actors

There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.

There aren't any small parts, only small paychecks.

Quote by Joe Pantoliano

Men are not great or small because of their material...

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

Quote by James Cash Penney about man

Without science, the world was now much, much smaller and darker. (Without science, the world would have been much smaller and much darker these days. )

Quote by Mariana Fulger about science, world, day

A crak is a small engine that causes revolutions

A crak is a small engine that causes revolutions

Quote by Sheehy Skeffington about opinion

There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st.

There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st.

Quote by William Shakespeare about philosophy

In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.

Quote by Charles Babbage about economy, use

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no...

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

Quote by Irving Babbitt about happiness, joy, work, man

I do have a small collection of traditional SF ideas which I've never been able to sell. I'm known as a fantasy writer and neither my agent nor my editors want to risk my brand by jumping genre.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about risk, commerce, writers

I love writing Thieves' World, but I feel a responsibility, too, to the other authors. I've lost many nights' sleep worrying if I've made the sandbox too large, too small.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about thieves, sleep, writing, world, love

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Quote by Francis Bacon about god

Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about habits, body, moral, mind, man

The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Quote by Francis Bacon about numbers, wealth, celebrity, stars, sky, light, man

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one...

I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.

Quote by Victoria Abril

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