Small earthquake in Chile. Not many dead.
You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the jail house. Once in a long while you get dead. Every other month you decide to give it up and find some sensible occupation while you can still walk without shaking your head. Then the door buzzer rings and you open the inner door to the waiting room and there stands a new face with a new problem, a new load of grief, and a small piece of money.
If you keep telling the same sad small story. You will keep living the same sad small life.
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.
It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.
Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor.
All travelers to wild places will have felt some version of this, a brief blazing perception of the world's disinterest. In small measures it exhilarates. But in full form it annihilates.
Usually, about two years of work go into each illusion, whether it's big or small. Two years of work on each five-minute piece.
I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's small white testament in my hands, and my wedding band on.
Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.
Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
We’re Nephilim. Every one of our life’s passages has some mystical component — our births, our deaths, our, marriages, everything has a ceremony and a rune. There is one as well if you wish to become someone’s parabatai. It’s no small commitment.
In the economy of Heaven, God does not send thunder if a still, small voice is enough, or a prophet if a priest can do the job.
Twin miracles of mascara, her eyes looked like the corpses of two small crows that had crashed into a chalk cliff.
When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.
I started passing out the schematics and the code listings for the computer, telling everyone here it is. It's small, it's simple, it's inexpensive: Build your own. No idea to start a company. Steve Jobs came by later and say, you know, people are interested. Why don't we start a company?
If you don't have time for the small things, you won't have time for the big things
No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it.
God in his goodness sent the grapes To cheer both great and small; Little fools will drink too much And great fools none at all!
Delia picked at the raw sores of her conscience. . . Drunk or sober, Delia lived in the small town in her heart, ignoring the world in which all her love had turned to grief.