Slight Quotes

388 quotes by 330 authors

I think actors have a greater responsibility when doing comedy. It's as easy as anything to get cheap laughs, but that's not the idea at… — Unknown Author
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight — Charles Caleb Colton
Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy. — Democritus
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings. — Joseph Joubert
You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away. A… — John B. S. Haldane
Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior. Complex controllable behavior seems precluded. — Stuart Kauffman
Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion. (...) The whole… — Victoria Glendinning
I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of… — Thomas P. Campbell
And it was there that I saw the most appealing creature in the whole shop. He had a slight chink out of one foot and… — Chris d'Lacey
It is good for God's people to be put in a place of longing so they feel a slight desperation. Only then can we be… — Lysa TerKeurst
We say of the oak, How grand of girth! Of the willow we say, How slender! And yet to the soft grass clothing the earth… — Edgar Fawcett
The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left with is the bedrock: Homer… — Wendy Lesser
To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole… — Mahatma Gandhi
The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and… — Knute Nelson
I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is… — Albert Einstein
Nor Fame I slight, nor her favors call — Alexander Pope
I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his… — James Joyce
The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight. — Paul Watzlawick
The study of Freemasonry is the study of man as a candidate for a blessed eternity. It furnishes examples of holy living, and displays the… — William Howard Taft
Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that… — Juan Cole

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