#small

It's extremely hard for athletes to accept what's happened to them sometimes. It's hard to be beaten by a small margin, and I've spoken with athletes who, for years afterward, have been tormented by the knowledge that, had they done something ever so slightly different, they could have been one-ten-thousandth of a second quicker. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#athletes #beaten #been #could #different

I think it's because in America you always get the sense that if you fail, you can just pack up your things and go somewhere else and try again. But in England, it's so geographically small that if somebody succeeds here, it reduces your chances of succeeding. ↗

— John Cleese

#always #america #because #chances #else

I think that sometimes you do something that makes a small group of people laugh, which is all we were trying to do; we were just trying to make each other laugh. ↗

— John Cleese

#group #i #i think #just #laugh

If the euro zone doesn't come up with a comprehensive vision of its own future, you'll have a whole range of nationalist, xenophobic and extreme movements increasing across the European Union. And, frankly, questions about the British debate on EU membership will just be a small sideshow compared to the rise of political populism. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#across #british #come #compared #comprehensive

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#actually #because #become #been #between

We need to reach out to small 'l' liberal voters who have a modern outlook on life, who want a party that is hard-headed on the economy - more credible on the economy than Labour - but more socially progressive and fairer than the Conservatives. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#credible #economy #fairer #labour #liberal

In a way, the history of jazz's development is a small mirror of classical music's development through the centuries. Now jazz is a living form of original music, while classical music has gotten to the end of its cycle in terms of exploring its form. ↗

— Mike Figgis

#classical #classical music #cycle #development #end

It's gotten out of control. It's taking bigger and bigger names to make smaller and smaller films. I worry that important films without a big name attached won't get made at all. ↗

— Glenn Close

#big #bigger #control #films #get

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants. ↗

— William Cobbett

#him #his #independent #makes #man

After 20 years in Congress, I still believe that smaller government and lower taxes are the most effective economic policies. ↗

— Howard Coble

#believe #congress #economic #economic policies #effective