Little things comfort us because little things distress us.
Blaise Pascal
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BLAISE PASCAL Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will n...
BLAISE PASCAL We forget the little things, so it's no wonder some of us screw up the big things.
NEIL CAVUTO When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, an...
BLAISE PASCAL There is much to be learned from the little kids and from the little animals! Little things teach us...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Little things please little minds.
OVID The small things of life were often so much bigger than the great things . . . the trivial pleasure ...
BARBARA PYM Do little things as though they were great, because of the majesty of Jesus Christ who does them in ...
BLAISE PASCAL That hurt us, too, because she's our little engine. She runs the offense really well so that was jus...
LORI DRUMTRA There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to ...
DWIGHT L. MOODY They told us to always check the surroundings. Check for little things that little kids might not be...
EMILY DIXON A little (one) can sometimes see things in others that us older ones cannot because our judgement ge...
BRIAN JACQUES God tests and proves us by the common occurrences of life. It is the little things which reveal the ...
ELLEN G. WHITE Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
H. JACKSON BROWN, JR. It is the little things that pierce and burn and prick for years to come.
ALGERNON BLACKWOOD In this business of taking care of severe head injuries, little things make us happy.
JULIAN BAILES It's dreadful what little things lead people to misunderstand each other.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Who remembers everything about somebody?
SUSANE COLASANTI Sometimes the little opportunities that fly at us each day can have the biggest impact.
DANNY WALLACE Sometimes, little things make a big difference...
NINO VARSIMASHVILI It's a tough life, she'd said. "It's the little things that get us through the day.
JEFFERY DEAVER Handle the little things well; for they become the great things.
FLO FALAYI Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do...
WILKIE COLLINS If you can't do the little things right, you will never do the big things right.
WILLIAM H. MCRAVEN It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
JOHN WOODEN Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, th...
BLAISE PASCAL Smoking rooms. They smelled like smoke. But we don't let the little things like that affect us.
ZENON KONOPKA We just have to continue to do the little things in practice. The repetition keeps us sharp.
MARIO CAMPS The little mistakes are what have been setting us back. It's the little things that I see that are w...
JUSTIN ARGRAVES The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason,...
BLAISE PASCAL I have a lot of objects in my space, little things, reminders, memories.
MARC NEWSON We walked beside each other, talking about things we should have been least concerned about. But at ...
MELITA TESSY I like to feel that I understand little things about sports.
BILL JAMES It kind of fell apart a little bit. Mistakes defensively, a couple walks, the team capitalizes, and ...
JOE PAVLOW It was a little insane, ... Things went bad and things went good. It should have been a little highe...
SCOTT JENSEN We couldn't really explain it. We might have gotten a little cocky, because we were coming off such ...
LESLIE FRAZIER If we are faithful to God in little things, we shall gain experience and strength that will be helpf...
HUDSON TAYLOR There are things we can do to give us a little more attention... I've got to look more frantic.
GEORGE BUSH He's so good at developing young players. He taught us so many little things that really stick with ...
DYLAN REESE One of the things we're really working on is chemistry and comfort and how things fit together, espe...
LORI KERANS There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them.
LARRY HAGMAN Little things can make such a big difference during recording.
MATT CAMERON It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is...
WANGARI MAATHAI We'll work on little things. Little subtle things can really help.
BUCKY DENT Little things affect little minds.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI Little things please little minds.
ENGLISH PROVERBS Little things affect little minds
BENJAMIN DISRAELI That's what makes us a great nation. We take the little things serious, and the big ones as a joke.
WILL ROGERS The kids really jumped ahead at the start of the third quarter and that helped us control things a l...
DOUG BURGE It was just little things that cost us yards. They will be fixed, and we will do better next time.
DAN COATS We came off a little rusty from the (10-day) break. They (Kalispell) ran a good, penetrating offense...
BROOKE SVENDSEN You can't jump from little things to big things. It just takes time and patience.
NADIA COMANECI If you do big things they print your face, and if you do little things they print only your thumbs.
ARTHUR BAER Sometimes the most happy people in life are the ones with nothing. We can't lose sight of the li...
RYAN CABRERA So much to do, so little done, such things to be.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR What worried him worst at the moment - for it is often little things that are hardest to stand - was...
C.S. LEWIS You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.
ANDY WARHOL You can't go to sleep without a cup of tea and maybe thats the reason that you talk in your sleep...
LOUIS TOMLINSON In the second period we turned the tide. We started doing the little things that make us successful....
WIL NICHOL What Pascal overlo...
WALTER KAUFMANN Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things,...
BUZZ ALDRIN Things do not happen to us… They happen because of us.
GARY HOPKINS The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
JON KABAT-ZINN Some of us had to give and take a little more than others, but things have a way of working out.
DANIEL SNYDER Milking has made a good living for us. We both decided it was just time to do things a little easier...
LLOYD SCHWARTZ I think little things are more powerful because they're more honest, so people feel them more st...
ELIZABETH PEYTON It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
JOHN WOODEN One of the things [trainers] told us we should expect to see emotional distress in students, but it ...
CHRIS WELLS Half the joy of life is in little things taken on the run... but let us keep our hearts young and ou...
VICTOR CHERBULIEZ While I am busy with little things, I am not required to do greater things.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.
HENRY ROLLINS I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little thi...
TORI AMOS The raising of an eyebrow, how you do it; when you look, how you look. All those little things are p...
CHEVY CHASE Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.
EPICTETUS We did the little things. We always preach doing the little things every day.
LEO ELLERBEE We are young and I had some young kids come through for us. We had a lot of guys do a lot of little ...
JOE TORNETTA Those that are little, little things suit.
HORACE We didn't play with pride. Pride is what you need right now. But all the little things (mistakes) ar...
ALEX BROOKS Someone who lies about the little things will lie about the big things too.
TERRY MCAULIFFE It's no big thing, but you make big things out of little things sometimes.
ROBERT DUVALL Common sense tells us that the things of the earth exist only a little, and that true reality is onl...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE They did some things that gave us some problems, we tried to adjust and tonight we came up a little ...
CHAD MEADORS It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us, we can dodge an elephant, but we can't a fly
JOSH BILLINGS This season things were a little different for us. We were and are confident, but the level of compe...
FELECIA INGLE That'll last us about three years because we use so little.
ERIC LAHEY It is the little bits of things that fret and worry us; we can dodge an elephant, but we can't dodge...
JOSH BILLINGS The game was lost in the first half. We didn't play Tennessee basketball. We came up short. The litt...
ALEXIS HORNBUCKLE Guys who might not be superstars but because of their hustle, because of the little things they do, ...
DWYANE WADE I'm a strong believer that you practice like you play, little things make big things happen.
TONY DORSETT The difference is the little things. The little things that determine whether you win or lose.
AL WAY Maybe the truth is, there's a little bit of loser in all of us. Being happy isn't having everything ...
ANN BRASHARES Albert provides a lot of intensity. When he's flying around the court making plays, it makes everyon...
JOE DELGADO The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreason...
US CONSTITUTION No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor ...
US CONSTITUTION Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise...
US CONSTITUTION A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people t...
US CONSTITUTION Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.
ANNIE LENNOX I'm a little worried about our timing. It's not where it was before we went into it. But I think it ...
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BLAISE PASCAL I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
BLAISE PASCAL A jester, a bad character.
[Fr., Diseur de bon mots, mauvais caractere.]
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