Short quotations about, small - Page 2

Dogen Zenji

Understand clearly that when a grea…

4 Aug , 2011  

Understand clearly that when a great need appears a great use appears also; when there is a small need there is small use; it is obvious, then, that full use is made of all things at all times according to the necessity thereof. Great short quote and quotation by: Dogen Zenji ,

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University politics are vicious pre…

9 Jul , 2011  

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry Kissinger , US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 – )

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Henry Kissinger

University politics are vicious pre…

9 Jul , 2011  

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. Great short quote and quotation by: Henry Kissinger , US (German-born) diplomat & scholar (1923 – )

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Hannah Arendt

War has become a luxury that only s…

15 Feb , 2011  

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. Great short quote and quotation by: Hannah Arendt , US (German-born) historian & social philosopher (1906 – 1975)

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Rabbi Harold Kushner

We are here to change the world wit…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are here to change the world with small acts of thoughtfulness done daily rather than with one great breakthrough. Great short quote and quotation by: Rabbi Harold Kushner ,

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We can do no great things; only sma…

15 Feb , 2011  

We can do no great things; only small things with great love. Great short quote and quotation by: Mother Teresa , Indian humanitarian & missionary (1910 – 1997)

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Etty Hillesum

We have to fight them daily, like f…

15 Feb , 2011  

We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. Great short quote and quotation by: Etty Hillesum, O Magazine, October 2002 ,

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Dennis Miller

We need anything politically import…

15 Feb , 2011  

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head. Great short quote and quotation by: Dennis Miller ,

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld

What seems to be generosity is ofte…

15 Feb , 2011  

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. Great short quote and quotation by: Francois De La Rochefoucauld , French author & moralist (1613 – 1680)

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What the superior man seeks is in h…

15 Feb , 2011  

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. Great short quote and quotation by: Confucius , Chinese philosopher & reformer (551 BC – 479 BC)

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Blaise Pascal

When I consider the small span of m…

15 Feb , 2011  

When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of […]

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Tom Robbins

When she was a small girl, Amanda h…

15 Feb , 2011  

When she was a small girl, Amanda hid a ticking clock in an old, rotten tree trunk. It drove woodpeckers crazy. Ignoring tasty bugs all around them, they just about beat their brains out trying to get at the clock. Years later, Amanda used the woodpecker experiment as a model for understanding capitalism, Communism, Christianity, […]

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