#smaller

Measured in time of transport and communication, the whole round globe is now smaller than a small European country was a hundred years ago. ↗

— John Boyd Orr

#communication #country #european #globe #hundred

When any organizational entity expands beyond 21 members, the real power will be in some smaller body. ↗

— C. Northcote Parkinson

#beyond #body #entity #expands #members

If I remember rightly Holland for instance has something like 45, and it's a much smaller country. In comparison we have very few and they are very badly financed. ↗

— Richard Rogers

#comparison #country #few #financed #holland

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#commonsense #cuts #entitlement #government #make

In short, no pattern is an isolated entity. Each pattern can exist in the world only to the extent that is supported by other patterns: the larger patterns in which it is embedded, the patterns of the same size that surround it, and the smaller patterns which are embedded in it. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#embedded #entity #exist #extent #isolated

'Tis very great pity that they who are so apt to over-rate themselves in smaller matters, shou'd, where it most concerns them to know, and stand upon their Value, be so insensible of their own worth. ↗

— Mary Astell

#concerns #great #insensible #know #matters

The world map looks smaller than ever before. ↗

— Max Azria

#ever #looks #map #smaller #than

That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films. ↗

— Ted Demme

#control #developed #film #films #good

I prefer to explore the most intimate moments, the smaller, crystallized details we all hinge our lives on. ↗

— Rita Dove

#details #explore #hinge #i #intimate

Yeah, I mean the material, directors, the other cast, and if you think you can do something with the character then you do it and go from there. I am looking forward to doing some smaller movies. ↗

— Orlando Bloom

#cast #character #directors #doing #forward