Top 691 Slight Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
The perils of overwork are slight compared with the dangers of inactivity.
Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
Crumb,” he said. “What?” A slight grin appeared on his face and then he reached out, without the napkin, and before I knew what he was doing, he smoothed his thumb over my bottom lip. Every single muscle in my body locked up and became painfully tense. My eyes widened and the air caught in my throat. The touch was slight, barely anything, but I felt it in several parts of my body. “Got it.” His grin spread.
We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals. — © Gillian Jacobs
We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.
Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
Each album I do, I try to have at least a slight rule, whether it's the band has to get together and record live, or all guitars, all fuzz on, all the time. It's varying and slight, but yes, I like having rules.
The secret of successful fiction is a continual slight novelty.
It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world.
While the mind is in doubt, it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.
What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure; neither the greatest captains nor the greatest philosophers have disdained the use or science of eating well.
Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.
There is a slight tomboyish side to me. But I was studious, and I did not bunk classes! — © Kriti Sanon
There is a slight tomboyish side to me. But I was studious, and I did not bunk classes!
Mr. Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw.
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!
Twere too absurd to slight For the hereafter the todays delight!
It feels like being a woman now gives you a slight advantage.
I hate all that don't love me, and slight all that do.
Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon
All that causes one man to differ from another is a very slight thing. What is it that is the origin of beauty or ugliness, health or weakness, ability or stupidity? A slight difference in the organs, a little more or a little less bile. Yet this more or less is of infinite importance to men; and when they think otherwise they are mistaken.
He who has a slight disadvantage plays more attentively, inventively and more boldly than his antagonist who either takes it easy or aspires after too much. Thus a slight disadvantage is very frequently seen to convert into a good, solid advantage.
Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.
To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.
There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms
I think I have a slight fear of intimacy.
Who cares if a carrot has a slight bend? They're all the same when they end up on the plate.
I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.I have a slight fear of sharks for some reason.
The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.
But slight mistakes accumulate, and grow to gross errors if unchecked.
I have a slight contrarian impulse I can't seem to shake.
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
I pay for things cause I want that slight edge over others.
For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight.
There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.
While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse. — © Terence
While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
I believe that each person can make a difference, but it's so slight that there's basically no point.
There is ever a slight suspicion of the burlesque about earnest good men.
It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.
But some love not the method of your first; Romance they count it, throw't away as dust; If I should meet with such, what should I say; Must I slight them as they slight me, or nay
sometimes the shifting of rocks is deep, deep below, and it's powerful and scary down there, but that all we feel on the surface is a slight tremor. Only a slight tremor.
Singing harmony is not the same as singing a part in a choral group, where you know you're going to have to hit this note and then that note. There are nuances that change every day. Maybe today you have a slight cold or voice fatigue, or you've done something and there's a slight difference in your breathing.
I think I gravitate towards characters who are slight outsiders.
A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep.
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature. — © Thomas Babington Macaulay
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
To revive a man is no slight thing.
International relations bears more than a slight resemblance to the mafia.
A good meal can somewhat repair / The eatings of slight love
I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.
Slight changes simply make a blur.
Most females will forgive a liberty rather than a slight
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.
It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.
I have a slight herniation above where I had surgery.
A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.
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