Small world Quotes

“You can’t make a small world for yourself, because what are you going to do when that small world implodes?”

“You can’t make a small world for yourself, because what are you going to do when that small world implodes?”

“Somewhere in this small world, you can find a place where everyone appreciates you more than you think you deserve.”

“Small children are capable of great love. Love that overwhelms. Love that changes small worlds completely. Dangerous feelings that blot out everything.”

“To enjoy the beauty of love, be a big person in this small world.”

“A small world where people know each other, and still so deep, able to get lost.”

“You must understand, owing to my loss of faith in life, I had gradually, inevitably embarked upon a small world of my creation.”

“It’s a Small World After All….Nothing, other than perhaps our universe, started in a vacuum and neither did the discovery of the Americas, which of course included the island of Cuba. To find a starting point, a little background regarding the Iberian Peninsula is helpful, since that is where it all began. Why did Columbus want to sail for parts unknown? What was going through his mind when he turned his small fleet of three ships in a westerly direction and headed towards the edge of the world? Surely, he didn’t have a death wish, so what was it that he knew that the rest of the 15th century world didn’t?”

“The truth is that exploration and enlargement make the world smaller. The telegraph and the steamboat make the world smaller. The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger. Before long the world will be cloven with a war between the telescopists and the microscopists. The first study large things and live in a small world; the second study small things and live in a large world. It is inspiriting without doubt to whizz in a motor-car round the earth, to feel Arabia as a whirl of sand or China as a flash of rice-fields. But Arabia is not a whirl of sand and China is not a flash of rice-fields. They are ancient civilizations with strange virtues buried like treasures. If we wish to understand them it must not be as tourists or inquirers, it must be with the loyalty of children and the great patience of poets. To conquer these places is to lose them.”

“It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.”

“[Like they say,] small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it.”