Slight Quotes
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call; She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all.
Alexander Pope -
I appreciate a slight yield, lightness of weight, some motion if possible, because in moving about, the human body determines... the comfort and the measurements of its environment... the human measure is still the strongest factor. But coming back to the chair, there are certain motions we go through - we like to lean back, like to toss things - and if the chair's adaptable it responds and it's almost like wearing a comfortable coat; you really don't know you have it on.
Harry Bertoia
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They still want to maintain the slight control they have in Terra in the newly formed company
David Joyce -
Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.
Confucius -
You slight yourself when you're easily slighted.
James Cook -
And it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
Charles Dickens -
How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!
Philip James Bailey -
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones.
Plato
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Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
Euripides -
Shall it not be scorn to me to harp on such a moulder'd string? I am shamed through all my nature to have lov'd so slight a thing.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
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.
Mahatma Gandhi -
We can all begin freely—a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement.
Jane Austen -
Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.
Claudius Claudianus -
There is but a slight difference between the man who may be said to know nothing and him who thinks he knows everything.
Edwin Hubbell Chapin