#smallest

All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#doomed #down #not perfect #perfect #perish

Man is so muddled, so dependent on the things immediately before his eyes, that every day even the most submissive believer can be seen to risk the torments of the afterlife for the smallest pleasure. ↗

— Joseph de Maistre

#before #believer #day #dependent #even

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#away #blessed #carries #country #earth

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#attribute #comes #everything #function #highest

It always makes me sad when I think of how I saw Wagner wasting his vitality, not only by singing their parts to some of his artists, but acting out the smallest details, and of how few they were who were responsive to his wishes. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#always #artists #details #few #his

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#head #leave #moment #opinions #other

Even the smallest dog can lift its leg on the tallest building. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#dog #even #leg #lift #smallest

There is room in the smallest cottage for a happy loving pair. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#cottage #happy #loving #pair #room

Most new jobs won't come from our biggest employers. They will come from our smallest. We've got to do everything we can to make entrepreneurial dreams a reality. ↗

— Ross Perot

#come #dreams #employers #entrepreneurial #everything

I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#i #knew #never #pains #readable