Slightly Quotes

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[The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct was to burst… — Barbara Pym
All families are psychotic. Everybody has basically the same family - it's just reconfigured slightly different from one to the next. — Douglas Coupland
Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes… — Max Wertheimer
Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid… — Joyce Carol Oates
Man is slightly nearer to the atom than to the star. ... From his central position man can survey the grandest works of Nature with… — Arthur Eddington
If there is something very slightly wrong in our definition of the theories, then the full mathematical rigor may convert these errors into ridiculous conclusions. — Richard P. Feynman
The universe and the Laws of Physics seem to have been specifically designed for us. If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more… — Stephen Hawking
The whole imposing edifice of modern medicine is like the celebrated tower of Pisa - slightly off balance. — Prince Charles
I've got a little baby, I made him...He doesn't speak, he's 2...He's a slow learner, he's only got 2 words...car and map...I'm slightly worried he's… — Michael McIntyre
A more complex - but only slightly more original - way to feel out of it is available at the hip and pretentious nightclubs and… — Merrill Markoe
Good shot, bad luck and hell are the five basic words to be used in a game of tennis, though these, of course, can be… — Virginia Graham
Then very slowly I go to slightly lighter colors until little by little, the forms begin to take shape and I start to see what… — Eyvind Earle
Never suppose that in any possible situation or under any circumstances that it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing however slightly so… — Thomas Jefferson
Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness… — Charles Dickens
Let's face it, you have to have a slightly recessive gene that has a little something to do with the brain to go out on… — Tim Green
In the mind of all the English soldiers there is absolutely no hate for the Germans, but a kind of brotherly though slightly comtemptuous kindness… — Ivor Gurney
Elections have consequences. And I fundamentally believe - this is my personal opinion, I know it's a slightly partisan thing to say - to really… — Paul Ryan
But you can't always tell - with somebody's mother, I mean. Mothers are all slightly insane. — J D Salinger
Editions made sense when people worked with engravings where the plate wore down as prints were made. An early number of the edition had slightly… — Jerry Uelsmann
When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel. — Richard Branson

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