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  • Dragons old and young, true and false, bright and dark. And you. A small man with a big shadow, snarling in the midst of all.

    Dark   Men   Dragons  
    George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five”, p.504, Bantam
  • He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

    Leadership   Men   Self  
  • Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow. Tyrion smiled. Lord Varys, I am growing strangely fond of you. I may kill you yet, but I think I'd feel sad about it. I will take that as high praise.

    Men   Thinking   Shadow  
    George R. R. Martin (2003). “A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two”, p.132, Bantam
  • The end of the day is near when small men make long shadows.

  • During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.

    Funny   Humor   Men  
    "Sunday Observer; Brass Hat In Hand" by Russell Baker, www.nytimes.com. April 17, 1983.
  • A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

    God   Greatness   Men  
  • There was once a strange, small man. He decided three important details about his life: 1. He would part his hair from the opposite side to everyone else. 2. He would make himself a small, strange mustache. 3. He would one day rule the world. ...Yes, the Fuhrer decided that he would rule the world with words.

    Men   Hair   Opposites  
  • The gentleman sees what is right while the small man sees what is profitable.

  • Coupled with Usury, Unrestricted Competition destroys the small man for the profit of the great and in so doing produces that mass of economically unfree citizens whose very political freedom comes in question because it has no foundation in any economic freedom, that is, any useful proportion of property to support it. Political freedom without economic freedom is almost worthless, and it is because the modern proletariat has the one kind of freedom without the other that its rebellion is now threatening the very structure of the modern world.

    Wisdom   Men   Support  
  • I am for the small man who has not forgotten, for the man who loves his beer and his women and his sunlight

    Beer   Men   Forgotten  
  • What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

    Character   Men   Chinese  
    Confucius, William Jennings, Epiphanius Wilson (1983). “The wisdom of Confucius”, Random House Value Pub
  • The larger the unit of capital present, the easier the transaction called emission of credit. Centralized lending of this kind (which is today universal) actively promotes the absorption of the small man by the great, the reduction of small property owners to a proletarian condition.

    Wisdom   Men   Credit  
    Hilaire Belloc (2016). “The Crisis Of Civilization”, p.97, TAN Books
  • A small amount of power corrupts a small man absolutely. A little knowledge is dangerous to a little man. To a great man only great knowledge is dangerous.

  • A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.

    Stephen King (2014). “Under the Dome: Part 1: A Novel”, p.462, Simon and Schuster
  • To a small man every greater is an exaggeration.

    Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.95, Simon and Schuster
  • This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

    In New York Times 31 July 1969, p. 20
  • By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

    Birthday   Men   Age  
    John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.39, Princeton University Press
  • A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias. The small man is biased and can see a question only from one side.

    Men   Gentleman   Sides  
    Confucius “The Analects”, W. W. Norton & Company
  • The gentleman is calm and at ease. The gentleman is dignified but not proud; the small man is proud but not dignified.

    Men   Gentleman   Ease  
  • Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

    Men   Doubt   Ugly  
    "The Windup Girl". Book by Paolo Bacigalupi, 2009.
  • Ofttimes a very small man can cast a very large shadow.

    Men   Shadow   Thrones  
    George R. R. Martin (2012). “George R. R. Martin's A Game of Thrones 5-Book Boxed Set (Song of Ice and Fire Series): A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, A Feast for Crows, and and A Dance with Dragons”, p.810, Bantam
  • A tall, well-built man with a deep chest and broad shoulders can carry a heavy burden with ease and unconcern, and still keep one hand free; a dwarf would be crushed by half that weight. Thus lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.

    Men   Office   Small Man  
    "Of Man". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.
  • A great many men - some comparatively small men now - if put in the right position, would be Luthers and Columbuses.

    Men   Would Be   Columbus  
    "Living Words". Book by Edwin Hubbel Chapin, 1869.
  • Possessed of courage but devoid of morality, a superior man will make trouble while a small man will be a brigand.

  • Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths.

    Men   Thinking   Weakness  
    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.180, Tuttle Publishing
  • That big guy, Winfield, at 6'6", can do things only a small man can do.

    Funny   Baseball   Humor  
  • It is now conceded that all idea of British intervention is at an end... I want to hug the army of the Potomac. I want to get the whole army of Vicksburg drunk at my own expense. I want to fight some small man and lick him.

    War   Fighting   Army  
  • Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than to explore the power they have to change it.

    Muhammad Ali (2016). “Muhammad Ali Unfiltered: Rare, Iconic, and Officially Authorized Photos of the Greatest”, p.118, Simon and Schuster
  • I am a small man who wants to do big things for small people.

    Powerful   Men   People  
  • A great man is hard on himself; a small man is hard on others.

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