Home » Quote » Robert Browning » „Say not “a small event!”“ „Say not “a small event!”“ — Robert Browning Related quotes „Say not "a small event!" Why "small"?Costs it more pain that this ye callA "great event" should come to passFrom that? Untwine me from the massOf deeds which make up life, one deedPower shall fall short in or exceed!“ — Robert Browning „How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that makes a turning point.“ — Corrie ten Boom „Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. “ — Eleanor Roosevelt „Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.“ — Eleanor Roosevelt „Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum.“ — Carl von Clausewitz „There's a major pattern of energy in universe wherein the very large events, earthquakes, and so forth, occur in any one area of universe very much less frequently than do the small energy events. Around the Earth insects occur more often than do earthquakes. In the patterning of total evolutionary events, there comes a time, once in a while, amongst the myriad of low energy events, when a large energy event transpires and is so disturbing that with their general adaptability lost, the ultra-specialized creatures perish.“ — Buckminster Fuller „Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.“ — Franz Kafka „If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event,—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture and death.“ — George Orwell