Slightly Quotes
793 quotes by 650 authors
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His mother had told him that when you looked into the eyes of God at the pearly gates, all the questions you ever had were…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I nodded. I liked Augustus Waters. I really, really, really liked him. I liked the way his story ended with someone else. I liked his…
— John Green
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There will be an enduring role for the 'soft' side of planning. The piece that deals with meaning, identity and ideas. This is the slightly…
— John Woodward
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Equality, in a social sense, may be divided into that of condition and that of rights. Equality of condition is incompatible with civilization, and is…
— James F. Cooper
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If I am content to heal a hurt slightly, saying "Peace, peace," where is no peace; if I forget the poignant word "Let love be…
— Amy Carmichael
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A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
— William Styron
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I think it was David Hume who put it slightly vulgarly, this was again about the virgin birth I think. Which is more likely... that…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it slightly developed, is so far unfortunate. It is a…
— Lydia M. Child
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Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without…
— Andrew Jackson
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The next time you feel slightly uncomfortable with the pressure in your life, remember no pressure, no diamonds. Pressure is a part of success.
— Eric Thomas
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I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to…
— Mark Twain
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When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm…
— Dave Barry
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I was slightly cynical of the American mentality before I came over here, but now I preach it. Here, no one's going to tear you…
— Simon Cowell
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When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period.
— James McCartney
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I was born abroad, but my parents were both English. Still, those few years of separation, and then coming back to England as an outsider,…
— Rachel Cusk
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There is actually quite a lot of crossover between the quacks and drug companies. They use the same tricks and tactics to bamboozle people into…
— Ben Goldacre
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Slightly embarrassing admission: Even when I was a kid, I used to have these little spy books, and I would, like, see what everybody was…
— Heather Brooke
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I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the polar…
— Lewis Gordon Pugh
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I do revel slightly in the fact that I am what I am - an English, middle-class, public-school-educated bloke. There is a reputation with that…
— Elliot Cowan
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I always felt slightly grubbier than most American people.
— Ashley Jensen
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