Lightly Quotes

401 quotes by 335 authors

It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't… — Emily Watson
For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state, — Joseph Campbell
An eating disorder is serious and it's a disease, and I don't think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they're openly… — Nicole Richie
One has to tiptoe lightly and steal up to one's quarry; you don't swish the water when you are fishing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Halloween wraps fear in innocence, as though it were a lightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat... — Nick Gordon
Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Lightly from fair to fair he flew, And loved to plead, lament, and sue; Suit lightly won, and short-lived pain, For monarchs seldom sigh in… — Walter Scott
In working well, if travail you sustain, Into the wind shall lightly pass the pain; But of the deed the glory shall remain, And cause… — Nicholas Grimald
Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen! — Samuel Adams
Rebellion against a king may be pardoned, or lightly punished, but the man who dares to rebel against the laws of a republic ought to… — Samuel Adams
Subtly, in the little ways, joy has been leaking out of our lives. The small pleasures of the ordinary day seem almost contemptible, and glance… — Barbara Holland
We may say that many, if not all, of the personality traits which we have called masculine or feminine are as lightly linked to sex… — Margaret Mead
For an Italian peasant a telegram from anywhere is a wondrous thing; and a cable from the terrestrial paradise of America is not lightly to… — Howard K. Smith
Do not think lightly of good, that nothing will come of it. A whole water pot will fill up from dripping drops of water. — Gautama Buddha
Best to live lightly, unthinkingly. — Sophocles
A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We told them this morning and I think they (reacted) like you would expect. It was a surprise and the reality of this is very… — Mike Jackson
Great revolutions, whatever may be their causes, are not lightly commenced, and are not concluded with precipitation. — Benjamin Disraeli
Yet the basic fact remains: every regulation represents a restriction of liberty, every regulation has a cost. That is why, like marriage (in the Prayer… — Margaret Thatcher
The noble entitlement bespeaks an Ã©lan, a certain type of relationship with your partner. It means formidable technique not displayed lightly. The excitement comes from… — Kevin McKenzie

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