Slight Quotes

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

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

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

I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

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.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.