Slightly Quotes
793 Slightly quotes by 650 unique authors
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My mission was always intended to be slightly outside the public eye, because that makes me appear more interesting than I really am. A lot…
— Julian Cope
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Developers have the attention spans of slightly moronic woodland creatures.
— Linus Torvalds
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I found that stiffly saluting member, of which he was so proud, rather frightening, and to tell the truth I found his pride slightly comical.…
— Anne Desclos
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The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest…
— Andrew Bacevich
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I am now a fundamentalist American; give me time and I will tell you why individualism, laissez-faire and the slightly restrained anarchy of capitalism offer…
— Rose Wilder Lane
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I had a slightly inferior endgame that probably should have been drawn, but Kortchnoi kept torturing me with little threats until finally, exhausted and exasperated,…
— Pal Benko
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If there is a Nora Ephron signature anything it is that there's slightly too much food. I have a friend whose mantra is: You must…
— Nora Ephron
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But strictly held by none, is loosely bound By countless silken ties of love and thought To everything on earth the compass round, And only…
— Robert Frost
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Ordinarily we are swept away by habitual momentum and don't interrupt our patterns slightly. When we feel betrayed or disappointed, does it occur to us…
— Pema Chodron
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Every time we start thinking we're the center of the universe, the universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, "I'm sorry. What'd…
— Margaret Maron
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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…
— Unknown Author
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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,…
— Unknown Author
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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…
— Unknown Author
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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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