Slight Quotes
388 quotes by 330 authors
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The best portraits are perhaps those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature; and we are not certain that the best histories are…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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If you are not progressing along the true way, a slight twist in the mind can become a major twist. This must be pondered well.
— Miyamoto Musashi
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A photographer’s eye is perpetually evaluating. A photographer can bring coincidence of line simply by moving his head a fraction of a millimetre. He can…
— Henri Cartier-Bresson
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A good meal can somewhat repair / The eatings of slight love
— Philip Larkin
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The income men derive from producing things of slight consequence is of great consequence. The production reflects the low marginal utility of the goods to…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Cultivate an ever-continuous power of observation. Wherever you are, be always ready to make slight notes of postures, groups and incidents.
— John Singer Sargent
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We do not slight the idea of enlightenment, but the most important thing is this moment, not some day in the future. We have to…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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To say that Romans 7 describes the Christian is to slight the grace of God and to foster wanton behaviour.
— Jacobus Arminius
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The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
— Thomas A. Edison
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In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration:—feelings,…
— William Wordsworth
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Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
— Dani Shapiro
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On the waves of the brook she dances by, The light, the lovely dragon-fly; She dances here, she dances there, The shimmering, glimmering flutterer fair.…
— Heinrich Heine
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And so the liberal tendency became a habit with Stepan Arkadyich, and he liked his newspaper, as he liked a cigar after dinner, for the…
— Leo Tolstoy
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It is common to forget a man and slight him if his good will cannot help you.
— Plautus
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Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man may have intelligence enough to excel in a particular thing and lecture on it, and yet not have sense enough to know he…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!
— Philip James Bailey
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Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me.
— Antonio Porchia
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Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!
— Robert Browning
Who Wrote These Slight Quotes
330 authors contributed a total of 388 Slight Quotes, led by these top contributors: