"Yes, I know, it's not the truth, but in a great history little truths can be altered so that the greater truth emerges."
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"It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating."
"We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God's truth, the universe at once began to exist."
"He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it."
"The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls."
"Well, when I walk behind short people I feel like I'm going to fall over because I start taking these little steps, and I can't take little steps."
"I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special little death."
"The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys."
"You should be careful, tossing descriptors like that around in a situation like this. My ‘problem’ isn’t little. Unless you’re drawing some pretty wild comparisons. Please tell me you’re not drawing wild comparisons. Or blood-relative comparisons."
""What a joke: Tiny living entities crawling on a little planet and are thinking, "I am Great". ""
"The Amish like to live a very plain lifestyle, the way they think God intended. It sort of brings you back to, like, 'Little House on the Prairie' days or something."
"With four? Doing a little... Addition? Multiplication?"
"How is it I know this little about the boy who says he loves me-"
"I don't know if you know this," Tobias says, "but Edward is a little unstable." "I'm getting that," I say. "That Drew guy who helped Peter perform that butterknife maneuver," Tobias says. "Apparently when he got kicked out of Dauntless, he tried to join the same group of factionless Edward was a part of. Notice that you haven't seen Drew anywhere."
"Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism."
"Big Business can make laws as easily as it can break them - and with as little impunity."
"To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie."
"I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are."
"Ever since I was a little kid I've been so glad to be from America and so glad to live here."
"I just drove past Brad Paisley jogging down the side of the road. I rolled down the window and screamed RUN FORREST RUN. I live for….. little moments…..like that."