Slight Quotes

388 quotes by 330 authors

It is a pink and blue feeling, as sharp as clear sky; a slight breeze, and the edges of Lake Nakuru would rise like the… — Binyavanga Wainaina
If I had even a slight awareness, and practiced the Great Way, what I would fear would be deviating from it. — Gautama Buddha
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms — Jorge Luis Borges
I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse. — Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl of Roscommon
Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers… — James Harvey Robinson
We (the indivisible divinity that works in us) have dreamed the world . We have dreamed it resistant, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and firm… — Jorge Luis Borges
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you. — Daniel Kahneman
Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual… — Charles Darwin
The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on,… — Alberto Giacometti
I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me. — Portia de Rossi
The first cup moistens my lips and throat; The second cup breaks my loneliness; The third cup searches my barren entrail but to find therein… — Lu Tong
Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio. A slight acquaintance with numbers will shew the immensity of… — Thomas Malthus
I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock. — Oscar Wilde
When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our… — Oliver Goldsmith
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything. — Edwin Hubbel Chapin
'These things will become clear to you,' said the old man gently, 'at least,' he added with slight doubt in his voice, 'clearer than they… — Douglas Adams
He that hath slight thoughts of sin never had great thoughts of God. — John Owen
A tiger does not ignore or slight any small animal. The way he catches a mouse and catches and devours a cow are the same. — Shunryu Suzuki
The Constitution and the Bill of Rights we designed to get the government off the backs of the people -- all the people. Those great… — William O. Douglas
As night-fall does not come at once, neither does oppression...It is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air… — William O. Douglas

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