Slightest Quotes

418 Slightest quotes by 345 unique authors

The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens… — C.S. Lewis
I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be… — Lee Kuan Yew
What a fate: to be condemned to work for a firm where the slightest negligence at once gave rise to the gravest suspicion! Were all… — Franz Kafka
I don't feel the slightest interest in the next world; I think it's here. And I think anything good that you're going to do, you… — Katharine Hepburn
And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no… — C.S. Lewis
I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last… — Suzanne Collins
We repeat again: strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with… — Carl von Clausewitz
To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon… — Stefan Zweig
They who love to inform themselves, are never idle. Though I have no business of consequence to take care of, I am nevertheless continually employed.… — Baron de Montesquieu
I could disappear from the face of the earth, and the world would go on moving without the slightest twinge. Things were tremendously complicated, to… — Haruki Murakami
Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice — Lewis Carroll
There is that American pastime known as "kidding" - with the result that everyone is ashamed and hangdog about showing the slightest enthusiasm or passion… — Brenda Ueland
My God, he couldn't help thinking, how terrible it is to be that age, to have emotions so near the surface that the slightest turbulence… — Richard Russo
They're talking about things of which they don't have the slightest understanding, anyway. It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so… — Franz Kafka
She didn't go all fangirl on anyone, but I suspect that's only because none of them bore the slightest resemblance to Nathan Fillion. — Kevin Hearne
Do those people who hold up the Bible as an inspiration to moral rectitude have the slightest notion of what is actually written in it? — Richard Dawkins
Best Friends. And I thought of what she had done all the millions of times I cried to her, collapsing at even the slightest wounding… — Sarah Dessen
A drowning man cannot be saved until he is utterly exhausted and ceases to make the slightest effort to save himself. — Watchman Nee
Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the… — Sigmund Freud
Hasn't there always been a moon?" "Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky--it… — Neil Gaiman
Very high, very grand, and very wise is the ocean of God, the Water of Life. You went after the form and were lead astray.… — Unknown Author
It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious theories of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal… — Thomas A. Edison
In this poor body, composed of one hundred bones and nine openings, is something called spirit, a flimsy curtain swept this way and that by… — Matsuo Basho

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