Lightly Quotes

There's a lot of people that fought for their country and that's not something to be taken lightly. They gave their life, everything they had, they gave their lives, to give us what we have. That's why I'm so passionate about my beliefs - because someone died.

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

An eating disorder is serious and it's a disease, and I don't think you can lightly say that someone has a disease unless they're openly telling you that they do.

He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline.

Playing in New England and the Boston area, the fans are so passionate about their sports if you don't play well, they'll let you know so I know it's not something that they take lightly.

I have no desire to be a cat, which walks so lightly that it never creates a disturbance.

None of us takes amending the Constitution lightly. The plain fact is this amendment has been exhaustively studied and it really is time to act.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

We will not take Arsenal lightly for one minute, as they showed in the two matches against us last season that they can be dangerous opponents if we lose our concentration for a moment.

Take your work seriously and yourself lightly.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

I don't think you can lightly paint a picture. It's an activity I take very seriously.

Only one golfer in a thousand grips the club lightly enough.

I don't feel like singing should be taken lightly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever done, but it's coming along.

People have taken time out of their day and spent their money to come sit down at a concert. And it's jazz music-it's not easy for them to get to it. I don't want them ever to feel that I'm taking their presence lightly.

A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.

Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.

The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.

When I say music saved me, I don't say that lightly.

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.

I don't always prepare such rich meals. Sometimes I'll just serve a simple quiche, salad and dessert for dinner. During the week I try to eat lightly.

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.

Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.

I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.

Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly.

With Maurice suddenly going, I realised... I think I've matured. I don't take things lightly any more.

It's become more and more of a priority for me to tread as lightly as possible in the world.

Confederation is a compact, made originally by four provinces but adhered to by all the nine provinces who have entered it, and I submit to the judgment of this house and to the best consideration of its members, that this compact should not be lightly altered.

We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm.