Just living is not enough… one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.
I want to say a little something that’s long overdue, the disrespect to women has got to be through. To all the mothers and the sisters and the wives and friends, I wanna offer my love and respect till the end.
From a little spark may burst a flame.
When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That’s about all you can do.
Kissing a man with a beard is a lot like going to a picnic. You don’t mind going through a little bush to get there!
A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.
I admit, I don’t look like the athlete of the day’s supposed to look. My belly’s just a little big, my heinie’s just a little big, but, brother, I am bad, and they know I’m bad.
Every comedian is furious. Age makes me angry. I’m unhappy at not being able to open packages anymore. I’m angry that libraries have gone. I hate children on planes. I’m very shallow, so they tend to be little things. To be honest, I think I was probably angry the day I was born, you know, about diapers or something.
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother’s womb a fanatic heart.
Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.
He didn’t even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist.
All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.
Great causes and little men go ill together.
I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction.
Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that’s what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.
I was the class clown when I was a little young mustache.
Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
As you grow older, you learn to understand life a little better.
An interesting life could always use a little seduction, confidence, ambition, and danger.
You can learn little from victory. You can learn everything from defeat.
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can.
I do it as a therapy. I do it as something to keep me alive. We all need a little discipline. Exercise is my discipline.
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free.
As kids we didn’t complain about being poor; we talked about how rich we were going to be and made moves to get the lifestyle we aspired to by any means we could. And as soon as we had a little money, we were eager to show it.
The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
I’d rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
I believe that we all have a responsibility to give back. No one becomes successful without lots of hard work, support from others, and a little luck. Giving back creates a virtuous cycle that makes everyone more successful.
A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.
It is normal to give away a little of one’s life in order not to lose it all.
There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.
To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‘Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.
The music is the message, the message is the music. So that’s my little ministry that the Big Man upstairs gave to me – a little ministry called love and happiness.
Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few.
When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
I really wanted to escape from that little girl. But it seems to me that the picture didn’t let me go.
You can’t stop the aging process. There’s only so much oil you can put on your body. I’ve always just tried to go with my age. If the part requires somebody a little younger or older, I can probably get away with that.
I love cats because I enjoy my home; and little by little, they become its visible soul.
Personal songs take a little more to record, definitely. We had to bring our souls into the recording studio. It was us being very vulnerable. We heard that our fans can kind of feel that.
It’s the little things citizens do. That’s what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.
What goalkeeper doesn’t like a little action?
I’ve never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.
Every time I start to get worked up over something, I just think to myself, ‘Is this really going to matter in my life tomorrow, in an hour, in a year?’ You just can’t get stressed about the little things ’cause it’s just not worth it at the end of the day.
The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little – somebody who is obsessed by Making.
Want to learn to eat a lot? Here it is: Eat a little. That way, you will be around long enough to eat a lot.
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
I have a hard time with morals. All I know is what feels right, what’s more important to me is being honest about who you are. Morals I get a little hung up on.
Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That’s what little girls are made of.
If I love you, I show you I love you every day. Little things, big things.
A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.
Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who’s only texting you back three words. I’ve learned that from trying to figure out people who don’t deserve to be figured out.
A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue.
Be prepared, work hard, and hope for a little luck. Recognize that the harder you work and the better prepared you are, the more luck you might have.
Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I’ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Wherever you’re from, you adapt to your environment. It definitely made my music a little bit more explicit. Because I really was in North Philly, I listened to State Property and stuff. Everything my dad listened to, I listened to.
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
I can’t solve the world’s problems, can’t even begin to contemplate them all. But on my little corner of Earth, I at least can try to live in a way that treads lightly.
The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.
If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
I don’t know driving in another way which isn’t risky. Each one has to improve himself. Each driver has its limit. My limit is a little bit further than other’s.
Nothing can be done except little by little.
Children are like little angels – there’s no way you can’t love them.
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
I never took a day off in my twenties. Not one. And I’m still fanatical, but now I’m a little less fanatical.
Photography gives you the opportunity to use your sensibility and everything you are to say something about and be part of the world around you. In this way, you might discover who you are, and with a little luck, you might discover something much larger than yourself.
