In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.
The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases.
I think people don’t realize how little of being an artist is making art.
Mental health affects every aspect of your life. It’s not just this neat little issue you can put into a box.
You have to think a little smarter, be proactive, not reactive.
Whether you’re tall or shorter, or a little bigger, more curves, skinny – you just have to be proud of what you have, and everyone is beautiful.
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
Yeah, I was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa. My parents lived in a little town called Eagle Grove. My mom taught high school and my dad was an instructor at the community college.
We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody’s weakness.
I left Mainz after 18 years and thought, ‘Next time, I will work with a little less of my heart.’ I said that because we all cried for a week. The city gave us a goodbye party, and it lasted a week.
Opinion has caused more trouble on this little earth than plagues or earthquakes.
British women can be slightly more reserved; Scottish are a little more crazy and fun, and American are more forthright, which I really enjoy.
I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people.
Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion; a ‘little black frock’ is essential to a woman’s wardrobe.
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed.
An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things.
Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.
I like Hollywood. I just like Minneapolis a little bit better.
Think little goals and expect little achievements. Think big goals and win big success.
Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.
Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
If you don’t want to put on any makeup, try some fake eyelashes. They make your eyes pop and give you a little confidence boost.
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
If you want to win a race you have to go a little berserk.
Little things affect little minds.
If you compromise what you’re trying to do just a little bit, you’ll end up compromising a little more the next day or the next week, and when you lift your head you’re suddenly really far away from where you’re trying to go.
Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.
Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and come back wistfully after hard words, and learn rather easily to carry a basket.
You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite.
We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.
There was a little less pressure to be fit on ‘The Avengers’ than ‘Captain America.’ I had just finished ‘Captain America,’ so I was already built. Plus, ‘Captain America’ has that one scene dramatic scene where my transformation is revealed. ‘The Avengers’ has not one shirtless scene.
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass – you don’t see it, but somehow it does something.
The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.
The greatest gift that you can give yourself is a little bit of your own attention.
Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
People say I’m too skinny, but if I gain a little weight, they say I look chubby. You can’t please everyone. As long as you’re happy, that’s all that matters.
A sound mind in a sound body, is a short, but full description of a happy state in this World: he that has these two, has little more to wish for; and he that wants either of them, will be little the better for anything else.
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough; for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
I literally have a clearout every two months and I give all my clothes away to my little cousins and stuff. And they just buzz off it. If I was younger, and my cousin or sister was in Little Mix, and they gave me all their hand-me-downs, I’d be the happiest girl in the world.
Doctors look after me. But, basically, I look after myself. I don’t overeat. I don’t develop a big paunch. I do a little bit of exercise. At the same time, I believe that if you don’t work, you will decay. The decay process is through not using your faculties – not using your brain, not using your body.
Living inside the shuttle was a little like camping out. We ended up sleeping in our seats. You had to pay attention to housekeeping, not get things too dirty.
I took a little break after ‘The Palace of Illusions’ to clear my head.
Though she be but little, she is fierce.
The learning and knowledge that we have, is, at the most, but little compared with that of which we are ignorant.
Anyone with a child knows that children learn about the world through binary options: up or down, hot or cold, big or little, inside or outside, wet or dry, good or bad, boy or girl, man or woman.
CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour. While arguments continue, there is very little solid data in the public domain about the costs, quantity and effectiveness of surveillance.
When you snatch little pieces of other people’s lives and try to palm them off as your own, that’s more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago.
The great thieves lead away the little thief.
Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Do you know what it means to come home at night to a woman who’ll give you a little love, a little affection, a little tenderness? It means you’re in the wrong house, that’s what it means.
There was a little girl in California who was part of the second class to integrate her public schools and she was bused to school every day. That little girl was me.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
If you… scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.
Whatever I start living like and whatever I start going through in my life, that’s how I’m gonna be sounding. It might sound a little different if I get more comfortable.
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.
I can’t enter into politico-social subjects with any interest, for on the whole, I see that things are in a muddle, and I have no power or vocation to set them right in ever so little a degree.
