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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
We sometimes underestimate the influence of little things
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence.
Is it not a pity when some stylistic subtlety is lost without trace by the reader's inattention?
A small unkindness is a great offence.
Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.
Never forget a Favor, Never forgive a Slight!
The little things that happen. Sometimes they're insignificant; other times, they change everything.
There are large moments in life; but sometimes it is the small moments - the casual moments - that change everything. The second's absent wandering of attention before an accident. The choice to take one road, instead of another.
Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.
weaker moments, he
An extra pressure, a silent rebuke, an unseen praising, a firm correction: all these passed between us as through telegraph wires.
Seeing the small is called clarity.
Small courtesies were the lubricant of daily life.
There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
One of these modest little moves may be more embarrassing to your opponent than the biggest threat
Its smallness is not petty; on the contrary, it is profound.
A very little little let us do
And all is done.
The little things? The little moments? They aren't little.
...The Little From Everything...-- Deyth Banger
A bit change for a big impact.
The thanks of a weak one are but of little value," he muttered, "but you have them, for truly, in this past week, little but scraps have come my way- and for all my body is small, yet is my appetite unseemly great.
It's easy to become careless when making rough comparisons, but the alternative is a prissy attention to detail that takes all the fun out of writing.
Life is full of many minor annoyances, and few matters of real consequence.
little things please great minds.
Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart.
Sometimes a soft touch can accomplish more than a thousand swords.
My home skills were just short of negligible ... p. 13
Sometimes one had to be grateful for the small things.
A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies
I'm known for my slightly inappropriate remarks.
Little things are big.
I notice small things. I'm a "detail" guy, that's why I'm good at programming.
Typography is a minor technicality of civilized life.
Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.
The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person,
small changes around the margins,
Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
Caress the detail, the divine detail.
The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.
We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.
high words, that bore Semblance of worth not substance, gently
I endeavoured to consult the simplicity of your taste, but
So much has been said between them that is is needless to add a marginal note. It is not for him now to gloss the text of their dealings, nor append a moral.
Tiny tweaks can lead to big changes.
Once we are involved in a relationship, there is no longer any such thing as a minor detail.
But I suppose he and his friends had undergone a few minor hardships.
By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.
Lightly, lightly, very lightly,
A wind passes very lightly
And goes away, always very lightly.
And I don't know what I think
And I don't want to know.
Sharpness is a bourgeois concept
When you are in deep conflict about something, sometimes the most trivial thing can tip the scales.
Only the small things in life are important
I don't know about style mistakes.
There is no gentle here.
They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.
Little said is soon amended.
But he found it strange to think of these little changes of scene, the little gains, the little losses, the thing brought, the thing removed, the light given, the light taken, and all the vain offerings to the hour,
It was often in small moments that significant things were revealed.
My affection for you does not depend on those small things.'
Affection? To hear him admit it, to actually utter words of love, however understated, astonished me.
As usual, I overdreamed and underbudgeted. . .
Very little matters very much and almost nothing matters greatly.
The smallest annoyances, disturb us the most.
So little, once it has changed, changes back.
was mildly surprised to see) and in the smallest
I don't let myself get upset about the little nitpicky things anymore.
It's always the little things, that we overlook, that are most important.
Brevity did not mean inconsequence...
When something small happens, something almost imperceptible, and it changes everything.
Precision is a precise art. Poignancy is pre-eminent and precludes prevarication.
No detail is too small.
You were unnervingly delicate, And I had a weakness for etiquette
Having nothing to do, I am correcting the Paris edition of Bach; not only the engraver's mistakes, but also the mistakes hallowed by those who are supposed to understand Bach (I have no pretensions to understand better, but I do think that sometimes I can guess).
Little things comfort us because little things distress us.
Thank God for small favors.
I find it so difficult to dispose of the few facts which to me are significant, that I hesitate to burden my attention with those which are insignificant
Oh, Frances, for somebody so clever you can be awfully dull sometimes. Don't you know the sort of mistake I mean? I was going to have a
Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!
The petty cares, the minute anxieties, the infinite littles which go to make up the sum of human experience, like the invisible granules of powder, give the last and highest polish to a character.
That an article of mine was well argued but dull, and advised me briskly to write more like the way you talk.
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
Little details have special talents in creating big problems!
How much finer things are in composition than alone.
The change we are in the middle of isn't minor and it isn't optional.
All the same it is being said everywhere that I played too softly, or rather, too delicately for people used to the piano-pounding of the artists here.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and niggling, and that the large things one overlooks often cause problems.
But every little difference may become a big one if it is insisted on.
The great conquest is the result of small, unnoticed victories.
Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.
And the Bastard grant us ... in our direst need, the smallest gifts: the nail of the horseshoe, the pin of the axle, the feather at the pivot point, the pebble at the mountain's peak, the kiss in despair, the one right word.
Little things affect little minds.
When a public quarrel is envenomed by private injuries, a blow that is not mortal or decisive can be productive only of a short truce, which allows the unsuccessful combatant to sharpen his arms for a new encounter.
Buggeration and Fuckery
Light matters should be dealt with seriously. Serious matters should be dealt with lightly.
Small things done consistently, though undramatic, yield more than the large and sporadic.
It's the little things Jen, the little things,
So far as it goes, a small thing may give analogy of great things, and show the tracks of knowledge.
Concision in art is a necessity and an elegance. The verbose painter bores: who will get rid of all these trimmings?
For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.