Slight Quotes

With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.

Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Although I am deeply grateful to a great many people, I forgo the temptation of naming them for fear that I might slight any by omission.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

The scene was not a happy one yet we looked upon it in the cold stoical spirit of a soldier; a slight chilling pang and then a return soul and body to the enemy before us.

I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a Dunkin Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I'm not joking.

If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.

Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.

I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with.

The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.

We don't want to miss anybody or slight anybody.

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

Child psychology and animal psychology are of relatively slight importance, as compared with the sciences which deal with the corresponding physiological problems of ontogeny and phylogeny.

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.