He stood motionless, not turning to the crowd, barely hearing the applause. He stood looking at the judges. There was no triumph in his face, no elation, only the still intensity of contemplating a vision with a bitter wonder that was almost fear. He was seeing the enormity of the smallness of the enemy who was destroying the devastation, past the ruins of great factories, the wrecks of powerful engines, the bodies of invincible men, he had come upon the despoiler, expecting to find a giant and had found a rat eager to scurry for cover at the first sound of a human step. If this is what has beaten us, he thought, the guilt is ours.
Quotes about smallness (16 Quotes)
The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.
The Wanderer finds success through smallness. Perseverance brings good fortune to The Wanderer.
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is.
Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.
I should point out, however, that at first some difficulty was experienced in observing the phenomena predicted by the theory, owing to the extreme smallness of the variations in the period of oscillation.
It is from a weakness and smallness of mind that men are opinionated; and we are very loath to believe what we are not able to comprehend.
It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination. . . . If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
Do not let yourselves be discouraged or embittered by the smallness of the success you are likely to achieve in trying to make life better. You certainly would not be able, in a single generation, to create an earthly paradise. Who could expect that But, if you make life ever so little better, you will have done splendidly, and your lives will have been worthwhile.
Why have you brought us here with force Your authority gives you the right to try a defendant in absentia. Are you trying to overcome your own smallness.
Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments
I wanted you to understand the smallness of this community, and the impact of tearing down three houses on a community that's this small. It's the kind of neighborhood that the city should be trying to support and maintain.
By choosing a candidate essentially of stealth, and who is a crony, is a retreat into smallness, and that is really disappointing to those of us who have supported him on all the big things.
It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.
For so long as the Jew has even one ally, he will be convinced - in his smallness of mind - that his salvation came from that ally. It is only when he is alone - against all of his own efforts and frantic attempts - that he will, through no choice, be compelled to turn to G-d.