"The little waiter's eyebrows wandered about his forehead in confusion."
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"Respect the gods, but have as little to do with them as possible."
"People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up."
"Every time my TweetDeck shoots a new tweet to my desktop, I experience a little dopamine spritz that takes me away from... from... wait, what was I saying?"
"Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts."
"To me nature is... spiders and bugs, and big fish eating little fish, and plants eating plans, and animals eating... It's like an enormous restaurant, that's the way I see it."
"The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle."
"The only evil that associates itself with mushrooms is taking too little."
"Liberty is, to the lowest rank of every nation, little more than the choice of working or starving."
"The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them."
"It's those little daily incidents of life that are dramatic, and if you put a frame around it , suddenly they become much bigger and much more important than you ever imagined."
"God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?"
"Anyplace of work where you have a cross section of work, you have mini-ecosystem. A little representation of what the planet is. You have the Alpha Dog. You have the young ones, the old ones. The pissed off one. The quiet one."
"To me, the whole process of being a brush stroke in someone else's painting is a little difficult"
"Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small."
"A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That's what you need to make a legend survive."
"A little love and affection in everything you do will make the world a better place with or without you."
"By taking these three steps you will get closer to the Gods: First, Say the Truth. Second: Don't let you get Angry. Third: Give, even though you have so little to give."
"It is so pleasant to learn about new things. Every day I find how little I know, but I do not feel discouraged since God has given me an eternity in which to learn more."
"You have to have a little faith in people."