“Smaller World:
I know he's not really gone, she said, but the world still feels smaller to me today.”

“Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some of the smaller countries are neutral.”

“Soon man will count all his days, and then smaller segments of the day, and then smaller still—until the counting consumes him, and the wonder of the world he has been given is lost.”

“The real world is much smaller than the imaginary”

“When I break any of the chains that bind me, I feel that I make myself smaller.”

“In its quest to control an unruly world, the Pentagon — acting in the name of the American people — slices and dices that world into smaller and smaller segments, while neglecting to assess the actual costs and benefits of the persistent meddling that it terms engagement.”

“I've learned that you know your husband still loves you when there are two brownies left and he takes the smaller one.”

“God's country. He could have made it smaller and still made the same point.”

“I think it possible that Marxism was the first attempt, for our time, outside the formal religions, at a world-mind, a world-ethic. It went wrong, could not prevent itself from dividing and subdividing, like all the other religions, into smaller and smaller chapels, sects, and creeds. But it was an attempt.”

“The world is much larger than I once dreamed, or perhaps my place in it is smaller than I once realized.”