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I'm going to be kind, because then it all just kind of spreads, and the world is a little nicer out there.
I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.
Little Tamar, forget the long ago. We are here and we are now, and that is all. We are making a new start.
There was a little girl, When she was good, she was very, very good. But when she was bad, she was horrid.
It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge a elephant, but we can't dodge a fly.
If there was a little more light and truth in the world through one human being, his life has had meaning.
The illegal trade in apes has little to do with poverty. It is instead generated by the rich and powerful.
I've learned so much, so very much about myself in defeat. I've learned very little to nothing in victory.
You should not see the desert simply as some faraway place of little rain. There are many forms of thirst.
I find relatively little relationship between the work of art and the immediate critical response it gets.
Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference.
Namby-pamby little routines that don't speed up your heartbeat and make you sweat aren't worth your while.
There's no question Jason Reda can kick. He's gotten more and more confident and a little more consistent.
When I was a little girl, I remember carrying my orange UNICEF carton with me as I went Trick-or-Treating.
Women's Lib? Poor little things. They always look so unhappy. Have you noticed how bitter their faces are?
I could be, you know, the person that shows little kids that giving up isn't something that you should do.
I would describe myself as a writer that hopes to take you into my world and help you feel a little safer.
We are all of us obliged, if we are to make reality endurable, to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.
Dance is holy, sexual, and it's a way of being very powerful and a little dangerous without being violent.
I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control.
He who would eat much must eat little, for by eating less he will live longer, and so be able to eat more.
Ever since I've been a little kid I've always wanted superpowers, which is the coolest thing in the world.
See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!
You know the old saying: you win some, you lose some... and then there's that little-known third category.
If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me? quoted by Susannah Simon
Strange that only a little problem of your own will take your mind far from a tragedy belonging to others.
My friend was about to introduce me when she looked at me and smiled and said, "Whose little boy are you?"
My heart shifted a little in my chest; it seemed to swell and beat against my bones until I couldn't hear.
The American people have now spoken, but it's going to take a little while to determine what they've said.
To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.
Someday love will find me in the rough. Someday love will finally be enough. I shine a little more lately.
There's very little of the intentional about the business of writing poetry, as least as far as I can see.
Image and appearance tell you little. The inside is bigger than the outside when you have the eyes to see.
Even hooligans marry, though they know that marriage is for a little while. It is alimony that is for ever.
In my youth I studied for ostentation; later, a little to gain wisdom; now, for recreation; never for gain.
If you write a novel alone you sit and you weave a little narrative. And it's O.K., but it's of no account.
Danger arouses interest. Where death is involved, the vilest criminal invariably stirs a little compassion.
George Carlin put it best. He said, "My old act was so easy to do because there was so little of me in it."
We read about how Ajax and Achilles will die for each other, but very little about the friendship of women.
I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.
That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.
My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
Senseless violence is a prerogative of youth, which has much energy but little talent for the constructive.
Much ingenuity with a little money is vastly more profitable and amusing than much money without ingenuity.
A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.
Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help.
Service that is given with little or no thought of personal advantage is an ideal to pursue for a lifetime.
My job changes very little because I've found that the more you try to be funny, the less funny you become.
Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.