Slight Quotes

388 quotes by 340 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason. — Lord Chesterfield
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
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
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
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
Mr. Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw. — Jimmy Demaret
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
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
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
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness. — Mary Wortley Montagu
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
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
Even in slight things the experience of the new is rarely without some stirring of foreboding. — Eric Hoffer

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