Quotes on Littles

I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.

My idea is this, that when you only love a little you're naturally not jealous — or are only jealous also a little, so that it doesn't matter. But when you love in a deeper and intenser way, then you're in the very same proportion jealous; your jealousy has intensity and, no doubt, ferocity.

Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate.

Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there's a little utopia.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

What is the meaning of life? That was all- a simple question; one that tended to close in on one with years, the great revelation had never come. The great revelation perhaps never did come. Instead, there were little daily miracles, illuminations, matches struck unexpectedly in the dark; here was one.

From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.

The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Keep me up till five because all your stars are out, and for no other reason…Oh dare to do it Buddy! Trust your heart. You’re a deserving craftsman. It would never betray you. Good night. I’m feeling very much over-excited now, and a little dramatic, but I think I’d give almost anything on earth to see you writing a something, an anything, a poem, a tree, that was really and truly after your own heart.

Do not be duped by little duties. Do not be a chore man all your days.

There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.

Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then a little syntax make a clearing in the silence. Art... is a foreign city, and we deceive ourselves when we think it familiar... We have to recognize that the language of art, all art, is not our mother-tongue.

I am beginning to understand," said the little prince. "There is a flower... I think that she has tamed me.

There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether they stand, sit or lie.

When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun.

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison.

Dreams, if they're any good, are always a little bit crazy.

If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success.

In the end, I hope there's a little note somewhere that says I designed a good computer.

If there's anything you could point out where I was a little different, it was the fact that I never mentioned winning.