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The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance.
I've never before been so aware of the thousands of little good things, the thousands of things that go right every day.
There is little evidence that other animals judge the appropriateness of actions that do not directly affect themselves.
I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.
All of us, more than we recognize, are products of the thinking around us. And much of this thinking is little, not big.
The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth
Our business is to stand strongly for principles, but never to attack persons, about whose lives we can know but little.
Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.
It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.
A little anger is a good thing if it isn't on your own behalf, if it's for others deserving of your anger, your empathy.
When I was a little kid, I loved imagining things. I'd go outside and put on a cape and just imagine I was somebody else.
The first step is to believe that it's possible. Once I had a taste of success, you start to believe in it a little more.
Life is not without a little adventure, Adventure is not without a little danger, Success is not without a little failure
A definition may be very exact, and yet go but a very little way towards informing us of the nature of the thing defined.
Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
II know very, very little about the ukulele, but I actually grew up playing the viola from 4th grade through high school.
Step back from your Facebook Wall for a moment: Doesn't it, suddenly, look a little ridiculous? Your life in this format?
You cannot expect miracles to happen overnight, be patient, be loving and little by little the change you seek will come.
If you're going climbing with young people, you get very, very used to seeing your climbing partner as a tiny little dot.
I don't set a whole lot of goals. It smacks a little bit of will to me, and I find that will is not the way to go for me.
Then if my friendships break and bend, There's little need to cry The while I know that every foe Is faithful till I die.
It was the beginning of the greatest Christmas ever. Little food. No presents. But there was a snowman in their basement.
People told her she hadn't changed much, in a tone which hinted they were surprised and a little disappointed she hadn't.
Beware of all politicians everywhere. They excelled at recess when they were in school but have excelled at little since.
Think your little jokes'll help you on your deathbed?" she jeered. "Jokes? No,no, these are manners," replied Dumbledore.
We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by.
My focus is to stay up the middle. If I'm a little early I'll hit it to left, if I'm a little late, I'll hit it to right.
With everything that happens to you, with everyone you meet who is important to you, you either die a little or are born.
I was raised in a mostly white neighborhood. I was this little white girl jamming out to Ella Fitzgerald and Bobby Brown.
When I look out into your faces, you know what I see? I see a little bit of Elvis in each and every one of you out there.
I don't need to break the speed limit. But if I'm not passing other vehicles on the interstate, I get a little irritated.
No one's life is totally morbid. Even on a subtle scale there's little flashes of enlightenment and of happiness and joy.
With a little faith in themselves people, people can do miraculous things. But without it, they have a really tough time.
A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.
I know what I think but I don't know how to put it into words. Maybe I could get a little bit drunk and dance it for you.
When I was little, I saw the play 'Les Miserables' on Broadway, I thought it was the most amazing thing I have ever seen.
I love pets and I love animals, and I just got a new puppy, a new rescue named Peanut. She's a tiny little Chihuahua mix.
When you're a little kid, your heart is open and tender and a harsh word can go straight in and become part of your life.
The little money I have - that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.
Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.
[hitrecord.org is my] alternative outlet of where I get to be a little less professional and just freak out a little bit.
I was even a little glad that if it wasn’t going to be me she wanted, it was going to be someone who really deserved her.
If you would wed, wed. If not, take your pleasure where you find it. There's little enough of it in this world." - Oberyn
There was always some germ of joy, some little paramecium of happiness wriggling around, waiting for a chance to get out.
The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!
I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.
The teaching of Christ, as it appears in the Gospels, has had extraordinarily little to do with the ethics of Christians.
I think it's good to be a little more fearless in saying what you feel. In not being scared of the repercussions of that.
It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.
My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.