Small Events Quotes:

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Life's Too Short, Life Is Simple

Great events are the hour-hands of time, while small events mark the minutes.

- Andrew Michael Ramsay

topic: Time, Hands, Events, Small Events

I'm not really a plot writer - I'm more interested in the characters and sort of small events that propel the story forward.

- Sara Zarr

topic: Character, Stories, Events, Small Events

Parenthood is an endless series of small events, periodic conflicts, and sudden crises which call for a response. The response is not without consequence: it affects personality for better or for worse.

- Haim Ginott

topic: Parent, Personality, Events, Small Events

We went around and looked and talked to a lot of foundations with those charities and decided upon the Childrens Hospital. They had a golf tournament at the time, but it was a small event that didnt raise a significant amount of money.

- Tom Kite

topic: Golf, Charity, Foundation, Golf Tournaments, Small Events

Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!

- Robert Browning

topic: Pain, Fall, Deeds, Small Events

I have come to believe that our lives can be turned in a different direction, our minds adopt a different way of thinking, by some significant, though small event. That belief can be frightening, or exhilarating, depending on whether you just contemplate it or do something with it.

- Howard Zinn

source: Howard Zinn (2010). “You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times”, p.173, Beacon Press

topic: Believe, Thinking, Justice, Small Events

Other letters simply relate the small events that punctuate the passage of time: roses picked at dusk, the laziness of a rainy Sunday, a child crying himself to sleep. Capturing the moment, these small slices of life, these small gusts of happiness, move me more deeply than all the rest. A couple of lines or eight pages, a Middle Eastern stamp or a suburban postmark . . . I hoard all these letters like treasure. One day I hope to fasten them end to end in a half-mile streamer, to float in the wind like a banner raised to the glory of friendship. It will keep the vultures at bay.

- Jean-Dominique Bauby

topic: Couple, Children, Moving, Rainy Sunday, Floats

When something terrible happens, a lifetime of small events and unremarkable decisions, of unresolved anger, and unexplored fears begins to play itself out in ways you least expect. You've been going along from one day to the next, not realizing that all those disparate words and gestures were adding up to something, a conclusion, you didn't anticipate. And later, when you begin to retrace your steps you see that you will need to reach back further than you could have imagined, beyond words and thoughts and even dreams, perhaps to make sense of what happened.

- Christina Baker Kline

topic: Dream, Play, Decision, Small Events

Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships.

- M. Russell Ballard

topic: Choices, Ships, Events, Helm, Small Events