Slight Quotes

388 quotes by 330 authors

Always laugh off a slight insult, so that people will understand what it means when you're not laughing. — Robert Breault
Cultivate an ever continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents. Store up in… — John Singer Sargent
Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats… — Aristotle
The task of the positional player is systematically to accumulate slight advantages and try to convert temporary advantages into permanent ones, otherwise the player with… — Wilhelm Steinitz
She was coming. I watched the slight figure grow out of the dusk between the trees, and the darkness in which I had walked of… — Mary Johnston
Let no man deceive you with vain words or vain hopes or false notions of a slight and sudden repentance. As if heaven were a… — John Tillotson
After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes… — Lin Yutang
...we shall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger, if we rashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim at exciting strife… — John of Damascus
Slight was the thing I bought, small was the debt I thought, Poor was the loan at best - God! but the interest! — Paul Laurence Dunbar
If your blood is formed from eating the foods I teach [fruits and green-leaf vegetables] your soul will shout for joy and triumph over all… — Arnold Ehret
I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night. — Dan Aykroyd
Alcohol makes other people less tedious, and food less bland, and can help provide what the Greeks calledÂ entheos, or the slight buzz of inspiration when… — Christopher Hitchens
If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight. — Noam Chomsky
The slight variations in extracting procedure cause many of the amygdalin (Vitamin B-17, Laetrile) molecules to change to a form unknown to nature(:) isomers...There are… — Ernst T. Krebs
Individuals for whom no orthodox cure is available surely are entitled to select a health care approach.....This right (is) specifically within,,,the 1st, 4th, 5th, 9th,… — Luther L. Bohanon
Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago? — Charles Horton Cooley
And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight… — James Iha
As for people who are politically backward, Communists should not slight or despise them, but should befriend them, unite with them, convince them and encourage… — Mao Zedong
Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we… — Vincent de Paul
. . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes you a little… — Vincent de Paul

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