Slightly Quotes
793 quotes by 672 authors
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I tell patients that tranquilizers alone never cure anyone. They merely reduce the intensity of the symptoms and make life slightly more endurable. They create…
— Abram Hoffer
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The only compensation, gained through the influence of nongovernmental organizations, consisted in slightly broadening for private individuals the possibility of access and appeal to the…
— Rene Cassin
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It was almost noon when the plane touched down at the Triad airport on the outskirts of Greensboro. There was a hire car waiting for…
— Greg Egan
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We have nearly complete misunderstanding between people of different faiths in Lake Wobegon, and that's probably one reason why we get along so very well.…
— Garrison Keillor
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On his bold visage middle age Had slightly press'd its signet sage, Yet had not quench'd the open truth And fiery vehemence of youth: Forward…
— Walter Scott
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Anyone with an ailment or who wears glasses or anyone slightly different suddenly wears a bull's eye. I think that dodgeball derailed an entire generation…
— Arthur Jones
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If each year slightly less capital is invested in industry, the time will eventually come when the amount of equipment per laborer and, in consequence,…
— Sumner Slichter
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Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times…
— Thomas Mullen
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She lies about her age and weight and is slightly older than Rocket. But they've been a couple for eight years, longer than most in…
— Kate Jackson
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If as individuals we can improve the geography only slightly, if at all, perhaps the more appropriately scaled subject for reshaping is ourselves.
— Robert Adam
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... the cooperative forces are biologically the more important and vital. The balance between the cooperative and altruistic tendencies and those which are disoperative and…
— Warder Clyde Allee
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I feel slightly confused about certain things. Practical and tactical things. When you try to make everyone happy… in the end you've got to make…
— Julian Casablancas
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Motion pictures are the art form of the 20th century, and one of the reasons is the fact that films are a slightly corrupted artform.…
— Roger Corman
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Nevertheless, if I have at times been able to make original contributions in the accelerator field, I cannot help feeling that to a certain extent…
— Simon van der Meer
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When things get bad enough, then something happens to correct the course. And it's for that reason that I speak about evolution as an error-making…
— Jonas Salk
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John asked me to dance and I nearly died. Bingo! I then amazed myself by being very cool, calm and collected outwardly-inside I was out…
— Cynthia Lennon
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A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could…
— David Remnick
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It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here among us who…
— Jon Ronson
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The truth will set you free, but it's only slightly less scary than hell and a whole lot harder to get there.
— Jon Foreman
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If you ever go bar hopping, who do you want to take with you? You want a slightly uglier version of yourself. Similar ... but…
— Dan Ariely
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