Slight Quotes

388 quotes by 330 authors

In Darwin's theory, you just have to substitute 'mutations' for his 'slight accidental variations' (just as quantum theory substitutes 'quantum jump' for 'continuous transfer of… — Erwin Schrodinger
I heard that all the time. â€˜He makes it look too easy, he doesnâ€™t run hard.â€™ It was always a slight on me. — Eric Dickerson
To create a wonderful day sometimes takes just a slight change in the way you look at it. Be willing to let go of an… — Louise Hay
If the tide of defamation and abuse shall turn, and my administration come to be praised, future Vice-Presidents who may succeed to the Presidency may… — John Tyler
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. — Esa-Pekka Salonen
A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a… — Walter Bagehot
The conspiracy community regularly seizes on one slip of the tongue, misunderstanding, or slight discrepancy to defeat twenty pieces of solid evidence; accepts one witness… — Vincent Bugliosi
Iâ€™m in for work at 6.30am and one of the last to leave. I donâ€™t want to go home. We have beds at the training… — Phil Neville
A lifelong intimacy with animals has got me out of the common notion that they are automata with a slight infusion of intelligence in their… — William Henry Hudson
The air was cold to the lungs, the long grass dripping wet, and the herbs on it gave out their spiced astringent scent. In a… — Isak Dinesen
If I can enjoy a joke at the expense of another; if I can in any way slight another in conversation, or even in thought,… — Amy Carmichael
When I was 88 years old, I gave up meat entirely and switched to a plant foods diet following a slight stroke. During the following… — Benjamin Spock
Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it. — John Calvin
Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and… — Wilhelm Wundt
He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or aspires after too… — Emanuel Lasker
PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance. [T]he Past is the Future of… — Ambrose Bierce
...diabolical error, when it has artfully colored its lies, easily clothes itself in the likeness of truth while very brief additions or changes corrupt the… — Pope Clement XIII
In the earliest cultures any tie between the dancers is slight. In a higher level the choral dancers almost always touch one another and thus… — Curt Sachs
"Of this voyage, I observe," says the Admiral, "that it has miraculously been shown, as may be understood by this writing, by the many signal… — Christopher Columbus
I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course. — Bill Peterson

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