Doubtless the world is quite right in a million ways; but you have to be kicked about a little to convince you of the fact.

In all conditions of life a poor man is a near neighbor to an honest one, and a rich man is as little removed from a knave.

Plants are the original chemists. Their sophistication makes DuPont and Monsanto look like little kids with chemistry sets.

When I am dead, I will not hurt anymore, will it Mama?...When I am dead, build me a little monument of stones in the woods.

Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday, I was there for every major event.

We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.

It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae

The only way we'd get beaten was if we got a little fat-headed, if we didn't train right, if we had dissension on the squad.

It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.

Scatterbrain is one of those harmless little words you use a million times... Then it turns up in a crime scene description.

A little Isadora Duncan and a little Butoh this was choreography and performing that was simultaneously both lush and spare.

Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

The eyes of the social herd, who always observe little things, and generally form from them their opinions of great affairs.

Maybe if we sit out for the next few years and let Clint Eastwood get a little experience, he's going to be a good director.

I'm the kindest, most supportive friend ever, probably to my own detriment, but I hope that I am toughening up a little bit.

Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.

I wasn't a 'hot chick' in high school. I was 'funny' and a tomboy and probably a little uncomfortable with my amazing boobs.

Latin women are very comfortable with their bodies and their sexuality. We aren't afraid to show that off a little bit more.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics; this is how we stay objective.

I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.

I was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a very poor family and unfortunately my father and mother separated when I was very little.

I learnt just how little it takes to survive, which is why I don’t waste things – food, money, friendships or opportunities.

When I was little, I used to work with my dad on the engine of his car. Mostly this was a matter of me handing him wrenches.

Every time I get a script in my inbox, it's like a little Christmas present. It's so exciting to see what they've cooked up.

Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

Prayers are heard in heaven in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater.

Black audiences are hard. They always think they're better than you. So you got to come with a little extra to satisfy them.

One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.

It's been the same story ever since I can remember, ever since Wilson - the Republicans don't do a thing for the little man.

I've got a couple of years until I turn pro so I guess within that period hopefully I'll be able to get a little bit better.

Is it crazy right now to say I love you?” She didn’t even pause. “Given that I just stabbed you? Seems a little weird, yeah.

The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present.

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

The kind of president we need has little to do with ideology and more to do with a willingness to wield power to moral ends.

In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. Experience and humility teach modesty and fear.

It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.

I'd like to have a little better relationship with the media. It's just that I don't think the media is comfortable with me.

I did try to found a little heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy.

Don't be serious about seriousness. Laugh about it, be a little foolish. Don't condemn foolishness; it has its own beauties.

Yes, sir, thank you, sir, and I wouldn’t trust me one little inch, sir. I knows a bad one when I sees them. I have a mirror.

We agreed with him in principal - we were little scientists, born and bred. But children robbed of love will dwell on magic.

Each pursues his own theory, little solicitous to correct or improve it by an attention to what is advanced by his opponents.

If you understood a business perfectly and the future of the business, you need very little in the way of a margin of safety.

As it stands now, those of us who are lucky enough to be citizens by birth don't have to do much. Very little is asked of us.

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

The whole idea is to get an edge. Sometimes it takes just a little extra something to get that edge, but you have to have it.

I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.

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