Slightest Quotes

418 Slightest quotes by 345 unique authors

I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't… — M.C. Escher
It is much safer to be subject than it is to command. Many live in obedience more from necessity than from love. Such become discontented… — Thomas a Kempis
I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral… — Charlie Munger
I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt… — C S Forester
What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether… — G. H. Hardy
Neither Kierkegaard nor Nietzsche had the slightest interest in starting a movement – or a new system, a thought which would indeed have offended them.… — Rollo May
We are not in the least afraid of ruins. We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that. — Buenaventura Durruti
The strength of that heretic [Calvin] consisted in this, that money never had the slightest charm for him. If I had such servants my dominion… — Pope Pius IV
Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room. — George Axelrod
For mothers who must earn, there is indeed no leisure time problem. The long hours of earning are increased by the hours of domestic labor,… — Katharine Anthony
When bow-hunting, you find you get closer to the woodland critters. The flora and the forest floor becomes clearer. You look at things more closely.… — Fred Bear
If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then I… — Lee Kuan Yew
For the kids, who in their lives have never known the slightest power, delinquency is a way of looking for power. — Alma Guillermoprieto
A jury of my countrymen, it is true, have found me guilty of the crime of which I stood indicted. For this I entertain not… — Thomas Francis Meagher
Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion. — Kabir Bedi
What with the political monopoly, the Cheka and the Red Army, all that now existed of the 'Commune-State' of our dreams was a theoretical myth.… — Victor Serge
There has been only one war fought literally worldwide, affecting every living thing, and that has been men's all-out, non-stop, millennia-long war against women, a… — Sonia Johnson
The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of climbing Mount Everest? and… — George Leigh Mallory
Work - other people's work - is an intolerable idea to a cat. Can you picture cats herding sheep or agreeing to pull a cart?… — Louis J. Camuti
We consider the beauty of nature and art with pleasure and satisfaction, without the slightest movement of desire. Instead, it appears to be a particular… — Moses Mendelssohn
I haven't the slightest idea what art is, but to be a painter is something of which you have to prove. — Wayne Thiebaud
Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather. — Mahatma Gandhi
I have studied the enemy all my life. I have read the memoirs of his generals and his leaders. I have even read his philosophers… — George S. Patton
But, surprise - none of these blockbuster events made the slightest dent in Ben Graham's investment principles. Nor did they render unsound the negotiated purchases… — Warren Buffett
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... It is a moment… — Carl Jung

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