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Small Quotes

Broadband gives small businesses the opportunity to broaden their customer base and reduce their overheads through e-commerce platforms.

– Hamadoun Toure

Strong Islamist trends make a fundamentalist Palestine more likely than a small state under a secular government.

– Ian Lustick

A series of small but real accomplishments gives people the energy and confidence to continue. For instance, a person who wants to write a novel might resolve to write one sentence each day. Or a person who wants to start running might resolve to run for one minute.

– Gretchen Rubin

The microbe is so very small: You cannot take him out at all.

– Hilaire Belloc

We still have community, but we don’t seem to have local community. Even in a small town where you know your neighbors and your mother’s down the street, they’re not in arm’s length.

– Helen Fisher

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.

– Henry A. Wallace

It struck me that working digitally with a small crew, I could lay out a general plan for Famous and hope for mistakes which would create something more than satire and something less than truthful reality.

– Griffin Dunne

To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It’s a kid’s dream. Don’t pinch me. I don’t want to wake up.

– Gio Gonzalez

In 1960-61, a small group of female pilots went through many of the same medical tests as the Mercury astronauts and scored very well on them – in fact, better than some of the astronauts did.

– Henry Spencer

It’s not easy to shout against real elements. The elements are big, and the human voice is very small.

– Ian Holm

While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn’t have a fact-based worldview. They talked about ‘we’ and ‘them.’ They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.

– Hans Rosling

We have to go and show these people what classical music is. We say sometimes that classical music has a small audience, but it’s because people don’t have the chance to be closer to it.

– Gustavo Dudamel

Whether the medium is ready for consumers is better judged by those consumers. I sometimes read online – but not often. The stigma is attached to pay scales. Much online publication is no pay or small pay.

– Gene Wolfe

The hacker community may be small, but it possesses the skills that are driving the global economies of the future.

– Heather Brooke

A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

– Harry Emerson Fosdick

I don’t believe in kicking away ladders. By that, I mean the ladders by which I ascended as a young writer, small magazines that didn’t pay anything, and that sort of thing.

– George Woodcock

Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth’s extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.

– George Gaylord Simpson

I think that one of the things that I can do is I seem to have the ability to zoom in super tight for very small details, but then jump back for sort of that big picture perspective. And I think that ultimately, that’s one of my strengths, because you have – every detail matters.

– Henry Selick

My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.

– Giles Foden

To go back to architecture, what’s organic about architecture as a field, unlike product design, is this whole issue of holism and of monumentality is really our realm. Like, we have to design things which are coherent as a single object, but also break down into small rooms and have an identity of both the big scale and the small scale.

– Greg Lynn

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

– Helen Prejean

I got hooked on espresso when I visited Italy at 18, but these days I prefer a ‘flat white.’ It’s like a small latte with less milk – they’re popular in Australia.

– Hugh Jackman

Since I was a very small child, I’ve had a kind of reverence for the past, and I felt a very intimate connection with it.

– Hilary Mantel

Of course as a small country you’re not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you’re negotiating with other small countries.

– Helen Clark

This is where the world is going: direct access from anywhere to any type of data, whether it’s a small piece of data or a small answer but a long algorithm to create that answer. The user doesn’t care about this.

– Hasso Plattner

Set politics and party aside: If it’s not right for Michigan’s small businesses and middle class, it’s never been right with me.

– Gary Peters

As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.

– Glenn Turner

The higher someone’s profile, the easier it is for a defendant to trade him up to the feds. Mr. Big is always a better catch than Mr. Small.

– Howie Carr

I’m gonna open a small restaurant on the beach in Mexico. We’re only gonna have a few tables, and we’re only gonna cook what’s fresh that day. We’re gonna get back to the basics.

– Guy Fieri

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

– Hannah Arendt

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