Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barbara Kingsolver

Small change, small wonders - these are the currency of my endurance and ultimately of my life.

Dean Koontz

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

Robert A. Heinlein

Small change can often be found under seat cushions.

Tom Perrotta

I find that even small changes sometimes jog you out of a mental rut.

Victor Hugo

Popularity? It's glory's small change.

George Meredith

Speech is the small change of silence.

Glenn Turner

As every new breed of virus is conceived, created and released into the wild, another small change is made to the anti-virus software to combat the new threat.

John Irving

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

Malcolm Gladwell

The Rule of 150 says that congregants of a rapidly expanding church, or the members of a social club, or anyone in a group activity banking on the epidemic spread of shared ideals needs to be particularly cognizant of the perils of the bigness. Crossing the 150 line is a small change that can make a big difference.

William Shakespeare

More can I bear than you dare execute.

Bob Francis

We're going to endure, I guess. I think we owe that to Jim to be there.

Bliss Carman

The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

Thomas Grandi

(It's not like) swimming, or any sport where the endurance factor is such a big deal. In a sport like skiing, you just get it one day. All of a sudden, you're skiing great, and there may not be a real explanation for that.

Malcolm Gladwell

The paradox of endurance sports is that an athlete can never work as hard as he wants, because if he pushes himself too far, his hematocrit will fall.

Djuna Barnes

What is a ruin but time easing itself of endurance?

Greg Hulse

I've always liked the 50 - I never had much endurance. I was kind of a 200 free person for a while when I was 12 or 13. I did the 200 free, 200 back, 200 fly. But as I got older, I fell away from it and started doing the shorter stuff.

Janet Jackson

You get yourself up for it somehow, and your endurance and the crowd gets you up, too.

Blaise Pascal

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

Alan Alda

I'm in this wonderful position where I can do what interests me. And whatever comes along that interests me, I do. The rest of the time I bother scientists about communicating.

Bill Nye

When or if answers are found, you can be assured those answers will lead to more questions. Is the troubling or wonderful? It depends on your view of your place in nature, your place among the stars; I suppose.

C. S. Lewis

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair

William Shakespeare

You are made Rather to wonder at the things you hear Than to work any.

William Shakespeare

Thus did I keep my person fresh and new, My presence, like a robe pontifical, Ne'er seen but wondered at, and so my state, Seldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast.

William Shakespeare

By being seldom seen, I could not stir But like a comet I was wondered at.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala

I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.

Bryce Courtenay

Each of us has been designed for one of two immortal functions, as either a storyteller or as a cross-legged listener to tales of wonder, love, and daring. When we cease to tell or listen, then we no longer exist as a people.

Catherynne M. Valente

And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.