Littles Quotes - Page 12

• Over the years I knew her she always looked at me like that - as though I was a quite pleasant but amusing object - and it always did the same thing to me. It's difficult to put into words but perhaps I can best describe it by saying that if I had been a little dog I'd have gone leaping and gambolling around the room wagging my tail furiously.

  James Herriot

  Dog, Years, Tails

  James Herriot (2012). “Let Sleeping Vets Lie”, p.104, Pan Macmillan

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• We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort. We postpone and postpone until those smiling possibilities are dead... By neglecting the necessary concrete labor, by sparing ourselves the little daily tax, we are positively digging the graves of our higher possibilities.

  William James

  Effort, Digging, Forget

  William James (2008). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology: And to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.62, Nuvision Pubns

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• Amor incondicional. Eso es lo que quiere darle y lo que quiere de ella. La gente debe dar sin querer nada a cambio. Cualquier otra forma de dar es egoísta. Pero él está siendo un poco egoísta, ¿no es así, al querer que ella lo ame a cambio? Espera que ella le ame a cambio. ¿Es posible que una persona ame sin desear amor a cambio? ¿Hay algo tan puro? ¿O es el amor, por naturaleza, una reciprocidad, como los océanos y las nubes, una evaporación del agua del mar y una reposición de la lluvia?

  Alan Lightman

  Egoísta, Lluvia, Océano

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• Jon shrugged. 'Girls get the arms but not the swords. Bastards get the swords but not the arms. I did not make the rules, little sister.

  George R. R. Martin

  Girl, Little Sister, Arms

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.75, Bantam

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• My whole life I've been a fraud. I'm not exaggerating. Pretty much all I've ever done all the time is try to create a certain impression of me in other people. Mostly to be liked or admired. It's a little more complicated than that, maybe. But when you come right down to it it's to be liked, loved. Admired, approved of, applauded, whatever. You get the idea.

  David Foster Wallace

  Ideas, Personas, Intento

  "David Foster Wallace's first biographer, D.T. Max, on his inscrutable subject" by Mark Sussman, www.politico.com. September 6, 2012.

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• We raise our children, especially girls, to ignore their spontaneious reactions-we teach them not to rock the societal boat...By the time she is thirty, the valient little girl's "Ick!"-her tendency to respond, to rock the boat, when someone's actions are really mean, may have been exciese from her behavior, and perhaps from her very mind.

  Martha Stout

  Girl, Children, Mean

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• There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

  Hugh Howey

  Mind, Stones, Certain

  Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• Maybe we all just want to feel special, even for a little while, to be fooled for a bit into feeling something besides the truth of our own ordinariness.

  Deb Caletti

  Feelings, Special, Want

  Deb Caletti (2010). “The Secret Life of Prince Charming”, p.321, Simon and Schuster

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• ...there was practically one handwriting common to the whole school when it came to writing lines. It resembled the movements of a fly that had fallen into an ink-pot, and subsequently taken a little brisk exercise on a sheet of foolscap by way of restoring the circulation.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Taken, Writing, School

  P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “The Politeness of Princes: And Other School Stories: Easyread Super Large 20pt Edition”, p.117, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Una vez que Mo hubo cerrado las puertas, regresó a su pequeña cabaña de piedra, y a su bocadillo a medio comer de mantequilla y sardinas enlatadas, y a su taza de espeso chocolate caliente, que cada noche vertía cuidadosamente en un termo etiquetado como CAFÉ.

  Lauren Oliver

  Café, Noche, Chocolate

  Lauren Oliver (2011). "Liesl & Po", p.41, Hachette UK

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• The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Messy

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.31, Macmillan

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• All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Girl, Dream, Taken

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.792, e-artnow

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• I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Tradition, Enough, Great Literary

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “The Beautiful and Damned: American Literature”, p.204, VM eBooks

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• As long as you set yourself up as a little god to which you must be loyal there will be those who will delight to offer affront to your idol.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Pride, Idols, Long

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• Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.

  Italo Calvino

  Travel, Mirrors, Negative

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• But there are times when the little cloud spreads, until it obscures the sky. And those times I look around at my fellow men and I am reminded of some likeness of the beast-people, and I feel as though the animal is surging up in them. And I know they are neither wholly animal nor holy man, but an unstable combination of both.

  H. G. Wells

  Animal, Men, Clouds

  "Fictional chracter: Edward Douglas". "The Island of Dr. Moreau ", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• A little bit of suspicion is a dangerous thing; a drop from a pipette of poison into a bucket of otherwise clean water.

  Polen Bella

  Water, Buckets, Poison

  Bella Pollen (2011). “Midnight Cactus”, p.218, Pan Macmillan

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• Then, without any warning, we both straightened up, turned towards each other, and began to kiss. After that, it is difficult for me to speak of what happened. Such things have little to do with words, so little, in fact, that it seems almost pointless to try to express them. If anything, I would say that we were falling into each other, that we were falling so fast and so far that nothing could catch us.

  Paul Auster

  Fall, Kissing, Trying

  Paul Auster (1988). “The locked room”, Penguin Group USA

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• Vive tu vida como si tuvieras 80 años recordando tu adolescencia. Si tu padre te llama a las ocho de la mañana y te pregunta si quieres salir a desayunar. De adolescente dices que no, que quiero dormir. Pero cuando tienes ochenta años y miras atrás, desayunas con tu padre. Esas pequeñas cosas me ayudaron cuando era adolescente a tomar decisiones de las que no me arrepiento.

  Taylor Swift

  Mañana, Papá, Arrepentimiento

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• My dad (Scott Swift) believed in me, even when I didn't.He always knew I could do this. I’m sure that everyone in Reading remembers how much he talked about me. I thought that was sweet, but really I just wasn’t as sure it would happen. So, I just love my dad for believing in his little girl.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Sweet, Dad

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• Yes! I did [grow up on a Christmas Tree farm], so this is a good season for me. I was too young to help with the hauling of the trees up the hills and putting them onto cars. So, it was my job to pull off the preying mantis pods off of the Christmas trees. The problem with that is if you leave them on there, people bring them into their house. I forgot to check one time and they hatched all over these people’s house. And there were hundreds of thousands of them. And they had little kids, and they couldn’t kill of them because that’d be a bad Christmas.

  Taylor Swift

  Jobs, Growing Up, Kids

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• She doesn't even know how to kill things properlike? What kind of girl have you given me to, goddess?" Vic protested, fixing his eye on Nike once more. Nike let out a laugh. " Vic is a little bloodthirsty. You'll get used to it.

  Jennifer Estep

  Girl, Nike, Eye

  Jennifer Estep (2012). “Mythos Academy Bundle: First Frost, Touch of Frost, Kiss of Frost & Dark Frost”, p.258, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Jasmine smirke at the weapon in my hand. "That little toothpick won't save you, Gypsy." "Touthpick?" Vic muttered in an indignant voice. “Did she just call me a bleeding toothpick? Kill her! Kill her now!

  Jennifer Estep

  Hands, Voice, Weapons

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• ¿Os atrevéis a sacar las armas contra la justicia de Dios?", espetó el regordete juez. Jamie desenvainó la espada por completo, con un destello de acero, y luego la clavó con la punta por delante en el suelo, dejando la empuñadura temblando por la fuerza del golpe. "La desenvaino en defensa de estas mujeres y de la verdad -dijo-. Si alguien aquí está en contra de esos dos, responderá ante mí y luego ante Dios, en ese orden.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Golpe, Justicia De Dios, Orden

  Diana Gabaldon (2015). "The Outlander Series Bundle: Books 1, 2, 3, and 4: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn", p.618, Delacorte Press.

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• Chyerti—that’s us, demons and devils, small and big—are compulsive. We obsess. It’s our nature. We turn on a track, around and around; we march in step; we act out the same tales, over and over, the same sets of motions, while time piles up like yarn under a wheel. We like patterns. They’re comforting. Sometimes little things change—a car instead of a house, a girl not named Yelena. But it’s no different, not really. Not ever.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Yarn, Track

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