Slightest Quotes

418 Slightest quotes by 345 unique authors

He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or… — Dean Koontz
I do not know why it matters that I should tell the truth to myself at night, why it should matter that the truth should… — Colm Toibin
I understand the technique of eccentricity; it would be futile for a man to labor at establishing a reputation for oddity if he were ready… — Rex Stout
As for myself and for the Secretary of State and others involved, including those in the Legislature, we stand ready to do anything, to meet… — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is human nature to want to believe in the wizardry of the magician--but also to turn against him and to scorn him the moment… — Dean Koontz
In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the natives. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions… — Mahatma Gandhi
You guys are lucky, cuz in Europe, like you can show boobs on TV and like in magazines and what not. We're Americans so the… — Mark Hoppus
To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited,… — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length. — Rex Brandt
I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're… — Nina Bawden
People have a hard time accepting when someone displays even the slightest amount of discomfort in the spotlight. You're supposed to soak up every bit… — Kristen Stewart
Our inability to see the beauty doesn't suggest in the slightest that beauty is not there. Rather, it suggests that we are not looking carefully… — Harold S. Kushner
You know of the disease in Central Africa called sleeping sickness. . . . There also exists a sleeping sickness of the soul. Its most… — Albert Schweitzer
Behind my non-cooperation there is always the keenest desire to cooperate on the slightest pretext even with the worst of opponents. To me, a very… — Mahatma Gandhi
How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance! — Moliere
If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as… — Ouida
Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism; with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity; men now even die, and kill one… — Thomas Carlyle
Scientists announced today that they have discovered a cure for apathy. However, they claim no one has shown the slightest interest in it. — George Carlin
The Christian is quite free to believe that there is a considerable amount of settled order and inevitable development in the universe. But the materialist… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Happy men are grave. They carry their happiness cautiously, as they would a glass filled to the brim which the slightest movement could cause to… — Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly
A lobster, when left high and dry among the rock, does not have the sense enough to work his way back to the sea, but… — Orison Swett Marden
God cannot be realizxd if there is the slightest trace of pride. — Ramakrishna
Grief is a bad moon, a sleeper wave. It's like having an inner combatant, a saboteur who, at the slightest change in the sunlight, or… — Meghan O'Rourke
The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman. One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace of worldliness. How hard… — Ramakrishna

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