Lightly Quotes

401 quotes by 335 authors

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply. — John Buchan
I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown… — Stuart Chase
I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that gene… — George Clooney
Ashton jumped in and said, 'I want you to know that I don't take coming into childrens lives lightly'. That was within the first couple… — Demi Moore
Your life feels different on you, once you greet death and understand your heart's position. You wear your life like a garment from the mission… — Louise Erdrich
The problem with many athletes is they take themselves seriously and their sport lightly. — Michael Waltrip
Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone lightly. So let's just wish each other a bileless New Year… — Judith Crist
Father Time is not always a hard parent and though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who… — Charles Dickens
Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough. — Johnny Miller
For the spiritual being, intuition is far more than a hunch. It is viewed as guidance or as God talking, and this inner insight is… — Wayne Dyer
What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is… — Benjamin Cardozo
One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some new fashion or… — Samuel Smiles
Light be the earth upon you, lightly rest. — Euripides
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid… — Joyce Carol Oates
Only he who handles his ideas lightly is master of his ideas, and only he who is master of his ideas is not enslaved by… — Lin Yutang
The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have… — Umberto Eco
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers. — Luc de Clapiers
We have to cultivate contentment with what we have. We really don't need much. When you know this, the mind settles down. Cultivate generosity. Delight… — Tenzin Palmo
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but the expansion of… — John Timbs
We have forgotten how to be good guests, how to walk lightly on the earth as its other creatures do. — Barbara Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth

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