Slight Quotes
388 quotes by 340 authors
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The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he…
— Henry Adams
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In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have…
— Joe Biden
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Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by…
— Theodore Bikel
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Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.
— David Blaine
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I feel like when you have an unauthorized police badge and something that looks like it could be a concealed weapon in the small of…
— Sandra Bullock
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Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very…
— Julius Caesar
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Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
— Lord Chesterfield
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All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine…
— Hugo Grotius
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I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but charismatic element of…
— Harry Kroto
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To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would rather…
— Dilys Laing
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Coffee as drunk in England, debilitates the stomach, and produces a slight nausea ... it is usually made from bad Coffee, served out tepid and…
— William Kitchiner
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Mr. Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw.
— Jimmy Demaret
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One thinks one's something unique and wonderful at the center of the universe, when in fact one's just a slight interruption in the ongoing march…
— Aldous Huxley
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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no longer atoms but stars; these…
— Henri Poincare
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer…
— Charles Darwin
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A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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All of the incessant debate about development assistance, and whether the rich are doing enough to help the poor, actually concerns less than 1% of…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and…
— Lucretius
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Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding.
— Eric Hoffer
Who Wrote These Slight Quotes
340 authors contributed a total of 388 Slight Quotes, led by these top contributors: