#small

But I knew the way the people in the town thought about things. They always had some time left over from their life to bother about other people and what they did. They thought they had to get together to help other people out, like the time they got together about the woman who let a colored man borrow her car and told her the best place for her was up north with all the other nigger lovers, and the time they got the veterans with overseas wives out. If you were different from anybody in town, you had to get out. That's why everybody was so much alike. The way they talked, what they did, what they liked, what they hated. If somebody got to hate something and he was the right person, everybody had to hate it too, or people began to hate the ones who didn't hate it. They used to tell us in school to think for yourself, but you couldn't do that in the town. You had to think what your father thought all his life, and that was what everybody thought. ↗

— John Kennedy Toole

#hypocrisy #small-town-life #life

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention. The guy who invented the smallpox vaccine didn't actually invent anything. He just noticed that people with cowpox didn't get smallpox. ↗

— John Green

#augustus-waters #beautiful #cancer #cowpox #death

He thought others were small; that was his greatness. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#dejan-stojanovic #greatness #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

It is not important what happens where; Where we fall or rise, What we conquer or lose, How big or small we are. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#conquer #fall #important #lose #rise

A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love. ↗

— Stendhal

#birth #cause #degree #hope #small

I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful. ↗

— Rachel Zoe

#dresses #i #imagination #just #left

There are few experiences in life as painful and brutal as the failure of a small business. For a small business conceived and nurtured by its owner is like a living, breathing child. Its loss is no less traumatic than losing a loved one. ↗

— William Manchee

#failure #small-business #business

Many small businesses would rather face an angry barbarian horde than tackle their cash flow statement or price a new product. ↗

— Nicole Fende

#profit #small-business #business

As a small businessperson, you have no greater leverage than the truth. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#businessperson #greater #leverage #small #than

Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book. ↗

— Nicole Fende

#profit #rock-star #small-business #business