A testimony is a testimony, and it should be respected, whether it is small or large.
If evolution almost always occurs by rapid speciation in small, peripheral isolates, then what should the fossil record look like? We are not likely to detect the event of speciation itself. It happens too fast, in too small a group, isolated too far from the ancestral range.
I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.
By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.
I spell 'god' with a small 'g' because I do not believe in him, but I love to swear by him.
I love my small town, and I love going back there and supporting the community. But I could not have stayed there. No way.
The whole of the life -- even the hard -- is made up of the minute parts, and if I miss the infinitesimals, I miss the whole. These are new language lessons, and I live them out. There is a way to live the big of giving thanks in all things. It is this: to give thanks in this one small thing. The moments will add up.
The day of small nations has passed away; the day of Empires has come.
I try to look after the really small things and the really big things, and delegate the stuff in between.
Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.
Tell the students to give up their small ambitions and come eastward to preach the gospel of Christ.
It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet.
People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.
There was no one clear point of loss. It happened over and over again in a thousand small ways and the only truth there was to learn was that there was no getting used to it.
Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe and the universe is connected to me.
I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday. . . I look back on my life as a good day's work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it. I made the best out of what life offered.
We best avoid wars by taking even physical action to stop small ones.
Every small thing grows when you nurture it, Rosie. Love is just the same. But if that is making you miserable then, leave and find something else that brings you happiness you deserve to feel.
When those who give charity do so without any sense of self-satisfaction and without any thought of reward, even a small gift is great. When those who aid others calculate their own sacrifice and demand gratitude and recompense, even a great gift is small.
In no small part I think all of us kind of look in the mirror and feel good or not feel good about the person we seen in the mirror in no small part because of the jobs we have.
