Everything is a negotiation. Everything is a little bit of give and take.
God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the chapters of the heart.
Let the little fairy in you fly!
You take every opportunity you have to win a trophy. That is always the goal, and winning makes it a little bit easier the next time.
If you don’t want your dog to have bad breath, do what I do: Pour a little Lavoris in the toilet.
A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.
Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
There is something feeble and a little contemptible about a man who cannot face the perils of life without the help of comfortable myths.
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
When it comes to time management, I talk a lot more about energy management. I try to give people 100% of my energy even if I’m giving them very little of my time.
The brave man inattentive to his duty, is worth little more to his country than the coward who deserts in the hour of danger.
Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves.
To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.
Every stress leaves an indelible scar, and the organism pays for its survival after a stressful situation by becoming a little older.
Years ago I went into my laboratory and said, ‘Dear Mr. Creator, please tell me what the universe was made for?’ The Great Creator answered, ‘You want to know too much for that little mind of yours. Ask for something more your size, little man.’
You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
I think people have to set up little battles. They have to demonize people whom they disagree with or feel threatened by. But it’s the ideological framing of the debate that scares me.
There are a lot of people who really abused sampling and gave it a bad name, by just taking people’s entire hit songs and rapping over them. It gave publishers license to get a little greedy.
We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day – and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw.
Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.
On a normal day, I love a shift dress with flats and a little cropped jacket. That, for me, is my travel wear if it’s not too chilly – you can throw a scarf over your legs if it’s cold on the plane!
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
Nothing succeeds like success. Get a little success, and then just get a little more.
Promising too much can be as cruel as caring too little.
My style is pretty clean, classic, and elegant, with some elements to make it a little funkier. If you see me on a normal day, I’m usually in a T-shirt and jeans, maybe with some cool sneakers, but I’m pretty basic.
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
We all live in the same house, we all must be part of the effort to hold down our little house. When you see something that is not right, not fair, not just… do something about it. Say something. Have the courage. Have the backbone. Get in the way. Walk with the wind. It’s all going to work out.
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it.
Beauty ain’t always a little, cute colored flower. Beauty is anything where people be like, ‘Damn.’
When people refer to ‘Back in the Day,’ it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
