Slightest Quotes
418 Slightest quotes by 345 unique authors
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Your slightest look easily will unclose me, though I have closed myself as fingers, you open petal by petal myself a Spring opens her first…
— E E Cummings
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Research ! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value.
— Benjamin Jowett
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The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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There is a serious tendency towards capitalism among the well-to-do peasants. This tendency will become rampant if we in the slightest way neglect political work…
— Mao Zedong
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Surely no mere mortal who has at all gone down into himself will ever pretend that his slightest thought or act solely originates in his…
— Herman Melville
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You should laugh everywhere you can find even the slightest glimmer of humour.
— Doug Stanhope
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My parents made it clear that I should never display even the slightest disrespect to individuals who had the power to let me skip a…
— James D. Watson
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Although I am small, ugly and dirty, I am highly ambitious, and at the slightest flattery, I immediately start to strut like a turkey.
— Italo Calvino
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If you can find the courage, if you have in your heart even the slightest bit of rebellion against injustice, maybe you can channel that…
— Unknown Author
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I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or…
— Alfred Nobel
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Governments, whether right or left, have become commissioners-in-chief, nudging and cajoling networks into preferred business models without the slightest sensitivity or awareness of what the…
— Armando Iannucci
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I never had the slightest desire to be a major league manager, and all knew it. But Ban Johnson, Bob Hedges, and Jimmy McAleer persuaded…
— Bobby Wallace
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Reviewing the record of American intervention in Indochina in the Pentagon Papers, one cannot fail to be struck by the continuity of basic assumptions from…
— Noam Chomsky
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TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long…
— Carlton Cuse
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Everything we do, even the slightest thing we do, can have a ripple effect and repercussions that emanate. If you throw a pebble into the…
— Victor Webster
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Of course, the slightest little mistake on the wire will deprive me of my life, so in that sense, yes, it is a dangerous profession.…
— Philippe Petit
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When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
— Otto von Bismarck
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We deny and have always denied having the slightest link with al-Qaeda.
— Aslan Maskhadov
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In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so…
— Robert W. Welch, Jr.
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I understand the worries of many - not only here in this auditorium -, and some have already written to me to say that technical…
— Johannes Rau
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I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil,…
— John Hanning Speke
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We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.
— Buenaventura Durruti
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The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends.
— Logan Pearsall Smith
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These days, everything is magnified very quickly by the media - the slightest slip can turn into a catastrophe.
— Valerie Trierweiler
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If thou remember'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not loved.
— William Shakespeare
Who Wrote These Slightest Quotes
345 authors contributed a total of 418 Slightest Quotes, led by these top contributors: