Lightest Quotes
40 quotes by 37 authors
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His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest…
— Anne Bronte
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Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which…
— Pierre-Simon Laplace
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Precisely the least, the softest, lightest, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a flash, a moment - a little makes the way of the best happiness.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.
— Benjamin Franklin
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Perhaps you have noticed that even in the very lightest breeze you can hear the voice of the cottonwood tree; this we understand is its…
— Black Elk
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the…
— Cyril Connolly
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So I would always try and be the lightest I could. In high school, I really wouldn't eat. I would only have lunch and I…
— Nicole Polizzi
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I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest…
— Brenda Shaughnessy
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From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.
— Cato the Elder
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Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often…
— Plutarch
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To be able to feel the lightest touch really is a gift.
— Christopher Reeve
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INJUSTICE, n. A burden which of all those that we load upon others and carry ourselves is lightest in the hands and heaviest upon the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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My objective is and has been for years to make the lightest and most compact flying machine that would carry me at 25 or 30…
— Lawrence Hargrave
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My style of leadership is to lead with the lightest touch that I possibly can.
— Steve Squyres
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The populace is like the sea motionless in itself, but stirred by every wind, even the lightest breeze.
— Livy
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Two meanings have our lightest fantasies,- One of the flesh, and of the spirit one.
— James Russell Lowell
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I stayed under the moon too long.I am silvered with lust.Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes.My voice is trees tossing in the wind.I loose…
— Marge Piercy
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We're the ones who can make a difference. If we lead lives where we consciously leave the lightest possible ecological footprints, if we buy the…
— Jane Goodall
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Dislodging a green nut from it's shell is almost impossible, but let it dry and the lightest tap will do it.
— Ramakrishna
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I wanted to make the lightest shoe possible, but still be able to perform at the same time.
— Carmelo Anthony
Who Wrote These Lightest Quotes
37 authors contributed a total of 40 Lightest Quotes, led by these top contributors: