Slight Quotes

388 quotes by 330 authors

I realize now that people are not thinking about you and me or caring what is said about us. They are thinking about themselves-before breakfast,… — Dale Carnegie
I don't think there's any kind of preparation for sudden celebrity. I think you almost have this slight nervous breakdown when that kind of media… — Scarlett Johansson
I believe I did what honor dictated and that belief sustains me, except for a slight desire to be dead which I'm sure will pass. — Marlon Brando
It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much… — Andrew Scott
I decided to lock myself in. A forced segregation. Sabbatical. A retreat into myself. My selves. Play hide and go seek in the looking-glass. The… — Lydia Lunch
Don't become weary in doing good. If we are patient, we can experience the change of heart we seek. For most of us this will… — Kathleen H. Hughes
Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou… — Seneca the Younger
However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight… — John Ruskin
The reason why we want to remember an image varies: because we simply 'love it,' or dislike it so intensely that it becomes compulsive, or… — Minor White
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen — Pindar
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise. — Horace
A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time. The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist.… — Isaac Babel
AÂ form of intellectual productiveness, therein lies its peculiar charm. Intellectual productiveness is one of the greatest joys - if not the greatest one -… — Siegbert Tarrasch
I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of… — Balthus
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know, my fantasy of… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
You cannot go to a 7-11 or Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian Accent. — Joe Biden
There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds… — Pat Buchanan
Be it known that Men of dull faculties and slight wisdom, They who cling proudly to signs, Cannot believe in this Dharma. Now I, joyfully… — Gautama Buddha
There is no satisfying the senses, not even with a shower of money. "The senses are of slight pleasure and really suffering." When a wise… — Gautama Buddha
Whoever desires Paradise, proceeds towards goodness; whoever fears Hell, refrains from the impulses of passions; whoever believes firmly in death, detests wordly life; and whoever… — Ali ibn Abi Talib

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