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Too great a preoccupation with motives (especially one's own motive) is liable to lead to too little concern for consequences.
If two people love the same thing, she reasoned, then they must love each other, at least a little, even if they never say it.
Really connecting with someone and maybe opening their mind a little bit, is such a cool thing to be able to do through music.
An indispensable anthology of hope and inspiration. Put away your Prozac, and pick up The Impossible Will Take a Little While.
For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it.
Let children feed on the good, the excellent, the great! Don't get in their way with little lectures, facts, and guided tours!
In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods.
It's not how much or how little you have that makes you great or small, but how much or how little you are with what you have.
I've learned... That when your newly born grandchild holds your little finger in his little fist, that you're hooked for life.
I very much wanted to be editor of the 'New Statesman!' But I never wanted to be prime minister, except maybe as a little boy.
You can't click through a book, you can't hyperlink and jump out of it. It requires a little bit more of a regular engagement.
I study children, and they're my subjects in my studies. They're my colleagues, really, all these little kids. And I owe them.
My aim is to make you look the best you can and if that means a little bit of internal pulling and hoisting up, then so be it.
I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live.
I walk into a kids' store, and it's amazing, the types of instruments - little squeaky things, rattling things, spinning tops.
Peter: Oh, the cleverness of me. Wendy: Of course, I did nothing... Peter: You did a little. Wendy: Oh, the cleverness of you.
My dad is a very snappy dresser; he gets all his stuff tailored. He's an architect, so he's a little more artistically minded.
If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.
I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables.
The practice of diplomacy, I have found, is sometimes like eating soup with a fork: much activity yielding little nourishment.
I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.
This week I've been reading a lot and doing little work. That's the way things ought to be. That's surely the road to success.
I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.
I can always grow a little bit, and try to do something different. So I'm always looking for what's out there - the potential.
You think sometimes that maybe if the person who hurt you is clobbered you will feel a little better. But it actually doesn't.
I find I have to walk a little faster in public these days, but it's very easy to remember when nobody had any idea who I was.
You can make five massive hits in a row and still not get cast by the directors who you want to work with doing little movies.
I feel as though we're living in a time where there is very little distinction paid between the personal and the professional.
For there 's nae luck about the house, There 's nae luck at a'; There 's little pleasure in the house When our gudeman 's awa'.
I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.
The individual citizen has very little possibility of having any influence - of making his opinion felt in the decision-making.
Sometimes the truth is arrived at by adding all the little lies together and deducting them from the totality of what is known.
I love that works of art are printed so that anyone can buy them. The variety of what they put on little postcards astounds me.
Why don't you have a cup of coffee at least? I, um, I'm a little low in sugar and I don't have any cream, but it's real coffee.
Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.
I think we all have a little bit of that beautiful madness that keeps us walking when everything around us is so insanely sane.
We are so constituted that we can gain intense pleasure only from the contrast, and only very little from the condition itself.
Life excites me-just little, normal, everyday things. Getting out of bed. Getting dressed. Making food. I find it all exciting.
There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.
There's no possibility of being witty without a little ill-nature - the malice of a good thing is the barb that makes it stick.
Ultimately, the best runners are the ones who are willing to work very hard but who have a little bit of a lazy streak in them.
I take it as a sign of intimacy and friendship when you feel comfortable enough with someone to have a little rough and tumble.
I had a handful of records, but when I was 11 years old, I liked Puccini as much as Little Richard. They both made sense to me.
I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.
Those who follow the part of themselves which is great are great men; those who follow the part which is little are little men.
I suppose fear is like a drug. A little bit isn't that bad, but you can get addicted to the consumption and distribution of it.
Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.
Some little part of themselves for someone in the future to discover. Maybe a thought. We were here. We built this. A reminder.
Once you expose your private life, if you give one little bit, the floodgates are open and everyone's got a free range for you.
I think that a lot of times, I trust people I shouldn't, and it turns out right, and it makes me feel a little better about it.