Slightest Quotes

418 Slightest quotes by 345 unique authors

Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility… — Unknown Author
I do not mean to be the slightest bit critical of TV newspeople, who do a superb job, considering that they operate under severe time… — Dave Barry
Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his… — Jean de la Bruyere
A song is such a short form ... that 'the slightest flaw seems like a mountain.' And so every song needs to be revised 'til… — Stephen Sondheim
There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at… — Albert Einstein
Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic… — Jim Parsons
I never had the slightest difficulty with a fellow actor. Not until One, Two, Three. In that picture, Horst Buchholz tried all sorts of scene-stealing… — James Cagney
I don't have the slightest desire to speak over my dead brother. It gets on my nerves to always be compared with him. My brother… — Joaquin Phoenix
I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely.… — Fay Wray
People with BPD are like people with third degree burns over 90% of their bodies. Lacking emotional skin, they feel agony at the slightest touch… — Marsha M. Linehan
Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acquired by the exercise of the senses; whence it follows… — Marquis de Sade
If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger… — George Washington
So far as we are concerned, there is not one word in the statements that I have made in this council which can be interpreted… — Arundhati Roy
You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words… — Jonathan Lethem
Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret… — Emile M. Cioran
Whereas the average individuals "often have not the slightest idea of what they are, of what they want, of what their own opinions are," self-actualizing… — Abraham Maslow
The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. — George Orwell
Peace originates with the flow of things - its heart is like the movement of the wind and waves. The Way is like the veins… — Morihei Ueshiba
People in office have to become models of correct behaviour. What they say and how they act should be beyond criticism. And when they commit… — Unknown Author
Let them not do the slightest thing that the wise would later reprove. — Gautama Buddha
We should always settle disputes through dialogue and cooperation, and should not resort to the use or threat of force on the slightest provocation. We… — Wu Bangguo
In the central cases of physical pain, then, it appears that at least part of what is bad about our condition is the way it… — Unknown Author
Millions of men give all their energies, as well as their very souls, for the acquisition of gold. And this will continue as long as… — Robert Green Ingersoll
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man… — H. L. Mencken
You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be… — Jorge Luis Borges

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