A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.
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The chances of each of us coming into existence are infinitesimally small, and even though we shall all die some day, we should count ourselves fantastically lucky to get our decades in the sun.
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.
If you're running a dictatorship, you don't really have to worry about the welfare or the property rights of the ordinary citizen. Only the people who keep you in power, a very small group, matter.
If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
'Sound of My Voice' is an amazing film. Small, simple, yet incredibly thought provoking.
There's something about small venues that's amazing for developing material. It's almost like you can not only hear people's response, but you can understand it. In bigger venues you lose that, but you gain this sense of camaraderie in the audience.
It doesn't matter if you're small, big, or fit: if you go in front of the camera and deliver and say, 'Oh my God, I look amazing,' and just be sure about yourself, everything will be perfect.
Once a bustling logging town, Sandpoint has embraced its natural beauty to become an amazing resort town drawing people near and far to enjoy its beauty and recreational possibilities. It's truly a small town with a huge backyard.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town.
Intimacies between women often go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.
Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time - like to have a friend takes time.
When the fishbowl gets too small, it's time to pack up and leave and jump into the lake or ocean.
I select a very small number of things to be sceptical about, such as markets, and on these I am hypersceptic. But I want to be fooled by randomness in art. I want the ceremonial of religion; we are made for it.
If we make it national policy that we will support small farmers the way we support agribusiness, we'll suddenly see it change in terms of the cost of organic food.