Slight Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

I had to make a change. It was no slight on my staff either. We'd all been at Boro for seven years. But certain players had got too familiar with the set-up. I had to turn it round. Terry was the one man I could think of to do it. So I went for him.

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

I always feel the desire to look for the extraordinary in ordinary things; to suggest, not to impose, to leave always a slight touch of mystery in my paintings.

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

In the case of composite colour, an infinity of systems must be obtained for maxima infinitely slight and with an infinity of interval values separating them - that is to say, the whole thickness of the sensitive layer is occupied in continuous manner by these maxima.

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.

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

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

It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.

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.

While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.

You know, people who almost - yeah, there's a slight reluctance there - but there's also an ambiguity. What are their morals? What is their code of living. What are they really doing here. And it is just interesting because it is never black or white.

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

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

I had cleavage that would make Dolly Parton proud. But those things are really heavy and I'm pretty slight of frame, so I took them out. No one even noticed.

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

And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.

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.

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

It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.