"It's true we're all a little insane."
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"Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it - not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits."
"Each day is a little life."
"I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing."
"The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray."
"It's the little touches that make a future solid enough to destroy."
"A peevish self-willed harlotry it is. *She’s a stubborn little brat.*"
"The superiority of some men is merely local. They are great because their associates are little."
"Here I come to one of the memoir writer's difficulties -- one of the reasons why, though I read so many, so many are failures. They leave out the person to whom things happened. The reason is that it is so difficult to describe any human being. So they say: 'This is what happened'; but they do not say what the person was like to whom it happened. And the events mean very little unless we know first to whom they happened."
"The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great."
"Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future."
"Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance."
"I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."
"You must learn how to handle rejection. To succeed, you must learn how to cope with a little word 'no', learn how to strip that rejection of all its power. The best salesmen are those who are rejected most. They are the ones who can take any 'no' and use it as a prod to go onto the next 'yes'."
"Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth."
"why can't we control our anger? because we love perfection. make a little room for imperfection in our lives."
"I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so forth. You get a little bit older, you can't read fairy tales any more."
"Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through O'Hare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it."
"It isn't very serious, I have this tiny little tumor on the brain."
"I'm not happy unless I've got a little bit of fear going."