Best 262 quotes in «tiny quotes» category

The ocean doesn't care about you. It makes your boat feel tiny. The oceans are great promoters of religion, or at least of humility-but not in everyone.

The origin of Homo sapiens, as a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree, lies well below the boundary.

The phenomenon of the woman who's asked what movie she wants to see, and she says, "I don't know. What do you want to see?" It's a tiny version of a big tendency. Women need to say, "This is what I want.

There are no living beings who exert more power over others, pound for pound, than tiny babies and extremely thin moguls.

There are millions of business ideas out there but only a tiny percentage of businesses succeed.

There are not that many people who know how to edit. It's a funny tiny little obscure talent but it's very special. You have to have the feeling of popular taste.

The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

There is an Easter sense in which all things are made new in the risen Christ. A tiny gleam of this is reflected in all true art.

There is but one Earth, tiny and fragile, and one must get 100,000 miles away to appreciate fully one's good fortune in living on it.

There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.

There is no 'the truth','a truth' - truth is not one thing, or even a system. It is an increasing complexity. the pattern of the carpet is a surface. When we look closely, or when we become weavers, we learn of the tiny multiple threads unseen in the overall pattern, the knots on the underside of the carpet

The Smurfs 2 is a great movie. The Smurfs are tiny little creatures that everybody loves. They're like Justin Bieber - minus the part about everybody loving him.

Theres something about most phobias where theres a tiny, tiny corner where you think this really actually could happen.

The universe is specifically tweaked to enable life on earth-a planet with scores of improbable and interdependent life-supporting conditions that make it a tiny oasis in a vast and hostile universe.

The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.

tiny: did someone die? me: yeah, i did. he smiles again at that. tiny: well, then... welcome to the afterlife.

This is a debate about our understanding of human dignity, what it means to be a member of the human family, even though tiny, powerless and unwanted

Tiny tweaks can lead to big changes.

Tiny as a sparrow, fierce as an eagle, Lisbeth Salander is one of the great Scandinavian avengers of our time, an angry bird catapulting into the fortresses of power and wiping smiles off the faces of smug, predatory pigs.

Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw.

Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread upward and outward until they fill our minds.

Truth wasn't something you went out and found. It was wide and vast and deep and unending, and all you could hope to see was a tiny part of it. And to see that part and to mistake it for the whole was to make of Truth a lie.

True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

Wealth, like a tree, grows from a tiny seed.

Very important to celebrate victories, however tiny, I always say.

Waves of thought are stirring. In a twilight corner of her consciousness, one tiny fragment and another tiny fragment call out wordlessly to eachother, their spreading ripples intermingling.

We are paying teachers who are in charge of our human capital, arguably more important than our financial capital, a very tiny fraction of what Wall Streeters are paid.

We are imprisoned in the realm of life, like a sailor on his tiny boat, on an infinite ocean.

We are planes, trains, and automobiles, and we're always hauling stuff up these tiny cobblestone streets, so the more mobile you are, the better.

We should not allow a tiny minority of shoddy scientists and science and extreme ideologues to compete with scientific facts.

We can drink soup with a fork, it will only take long time! As long as we are patient, we can drink it even with a tiny pin!

We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one.

What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.

What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?

What a joke: Tiny living entities crawling on a little planet and are thinking, "I am Great.

What goes on inside is just too fast and huge and all interconnected for words to do more than barely sketch the outlines of at most one tiny little part of it at any given instant.

When fashion turns over it brings in little tiny creaks and cracks. This is the fascination and that is where you have to watch every step.

What would happen if the moon were not there? Then our tilt could swing wildly over a large range, resulting in major temperature swings. If our tilt were more like ninety degrees, the north pole would be exposed to the sun for six months, while the south pole would be in darkness, then vice-versa. Instead, it varies by only about one and a half degrees - just a tiny variation, because the gravity from the moon's orbit keeps it stabilized.

When I perform in front of large audiences, I'm much more comfortable, because I've already performed in front of tiny audiences - which is much harder, honestly. The smaller you strip things down, the more you depend on the songs and yourself, as opposed to arrangements.

When you really consider the everyday things around you, they start to seem like tiny miracles.

When I wake up, I always thank God. I'm grateful for another day, and he's allowed me this tiny thing that we should be appreciative of.

When our tools are broken, we feel broken. And when somebody fixes one, we feel a tiny bit more whole.

When you reached the summit, you will see that you are still tiny!

When you put a tiny and despised minority up for a popular vote, the minority usually loses.

When we first started and started hitting new places for the first time, you kinda didn't know, because we were new. Sometimes we played tiny little clubs and sometimes we'd play a larger place.

When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.

You could go out with a camcorder tomorrow and make a movie with virtually no money, but promoting a tiny low-budget movie costs $20 million. And the money they spend on the big movies is astronomical.

Wonder is the heaviest element on the periodic table. Even a tiny fleck of it stops time.

You can feel small, insignificant and insubstantial, but knowing the universe is in your tiny body should be enough to make you happy.