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Everyone should write a book, if only to seehow much work goes into even the slight volume I send you. — Susan Wallace
The comfort derived from the misery of others is slight.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I believe that each person can make a difference, but it's so slight that there's basically no point.
— Lauren Lapkus
almost exquisite, the slight madness
— James Tate
Although I'm not Christian, I was raised Christian. I'm an atheist, with a slight Buddhist leaning. I've got a very strong sense of morality.
— Rachel Griffiths
Mr. Agnew, I believe you have a slight swing in your flaw.
— Jimmy Demaret
Still young and fine! but what is still in view We slight as old and soil'd, though fresh and new.
— Henry Vaughan
Cold steel and discipline and the slight capital surplus necessary to move and organise armies constituted the sole defences.
— Winston S. Churchill
The task is overwhelming, and the chance is slight. We must take the chance or die.
— Robert M. Hutchins
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
I pressed my dark issues to the back of my mind and smiled a slight untruthful happiness . . .
— Bethany Anne Miller
He woke up blinking with a slight pain in his head and opened his eyes upon a world boiling in chaos in which everything was in proper order.
— Joseph Heller
I never knew a man who deserved to be thought well of for his morals who had a slight opinion of our Sex in general.
— Samuel Richardson
This means intentionally adding distance that creates an edgy instability or uncertainty, a slight and enjoyable dissatisfaction.
— Emily Nagoski
Who will excuse us before God for the loss of such a great number of people, who could be saved by the slight assistance we could give them?
— Vincent De Paul
If we move toward the weaponisation of space, we can bid farewell to the planet. The chances of survival are very slight.
— Noam Chomsky
To revive a man is no slight thing.
— Nachman Of Breslov
A glance, a word and joy or pain befalls ... How slight the links are in the chain that binds us to our destiny! — Thomas Bailey Aldrich
It was interesting that such a slight frame could contain so large a person.
— Jacqueline Kelly
Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment.
— Charles Caleb Colton
Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
— Thomas Fuller
I've always been more slight, and I've always sort of felt that I needed to be protected, especially with so many rowdy brothers and sisters.
— Daphne Guinness
Don't tell Mummy,' he said, giving me a slight shake. 'This is our secret, Antoinette, do you hear me?
— Toni Maguire
Memories shrink. Like a soap bar used over and over, they become deformed, weaker scented, too slight and slippery to hold.
— Amanda Hodgkinson
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.
— Theodore Bikel
To say that Romans 7 describes the Christian is to slight the grace of God and to foster wanton behaviour.
— Jacobus Arminius
Even slight elevations in blood sugar have been shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
— David Perlmutter
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
I have since come to know that many men always see another's good fortune as a slight to themsleves.
— Robin Hobb
A Greek gentleman in a straw hat, standing absolutely motionless at a slight angle to the universe.
— Peter Cave
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations.
— Alfred North Whitehead
That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society.
— Charles Dickens
A slight sound at evening lifts me up by the ears, and makes life seem inexpressibly serene and grand. It may be Uranus, or it may be in the shutter.
— Henry David Thoreau
A slight failing in one virtue is enough to put all the others to sleep.
— Teresa Of Avila
providing the element of slight distraction to keep the mind from wandering. Each
— John Charles Pollock
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
It seems to me that, with but slight reserve and modification, we may apply to our departed friend his own pathetic and beautiful elegy upon another.
— Samuel Laman Blanchard
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
Vote for Toby. Vote for Toby. Hey, baby. How you doin'?" Slight pause. "Vote for Toby.
— Jennifer Lynn Barnes
There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
— John Ruskin
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
He gives me a slight smile. I simultaneously want to, like, build shrines to it and punch it off his face. It's complicated.
— Hannah Johnson
Could anything be more indicative of a slight but general insanity than the aspect of the crowd on the streets of Chicago?
— Charles Horton Cooley
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure no slight pleasure.
— Michel De Montaigne
It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.
— Yotam Ottolenghi
Yes she met with a slight accident involving a stake." Ash said "funny how that happens sometimes ...
— L.J.Smith
She was one woman who knew what to do with a slight moral edge. The
— Peter S. Beagle
How slight and insignificant is the thing which casts down or restores a mind greedy for praise.
— Horace
She hasn't caught a slight fatality, has she?
— Gail Carriger
It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.
— Daniel Kahneman
Miss Allison realised with a slight sinking of the heart that she was to be made the recipient of confidences.
— Georgette Heyer
A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully.("Three O'Clock") — Cornell Woolrich
I try not to be cruel, just persistent. There are days when the difference is pretty damn slight.
— Laurell K. Hamilton
Injury, when it is slight, upsets me; when it is strong it calms me.
— Antonio Porchia
When we take a slight survey of the surface of our globe a thousand objects offer themselves which, though long known, yet still demand our curiosity.
— Oliver Goldsmith
The slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon
— Elizabeth Bowen
I hope it's the worst fuck you've ever had, you ruthless, manipulating bastard.""Pillow talk already?" he replied with a slight grin. — Jeaniene Frost
her cheeks a slight Asian red;
— Ned Vizzini
Never keep long and be waiting. Waiters and quitters have just a slight difference but a common end.
— Israelmore Ayivor
The worst extremes usually start with slight deviations.
— John F. MacArthur Jr.
Praise for others is no slight to yourself.
— Lacey Deaver
How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!
— Philip James Bailey
We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.
— Gillian Jacobs
I will not quarrel with a slight mistake, Such as our nature's frailty may excuse.
— Wentworth Dillon, 4th Earl Of Roscommon
My wife was of slight stature and weighed no more than a box of old books. Folded as she was, she fitted snugly into the trunk.
— Stephen Livingston
It's only a slight modification of causality.
— Kevin Hearne
For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.
— Euripides
Every passion, every emotion, has its effect upon the mind. Every change of mind, however slight, has its effect upon the body.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
There was the torture of sermons, and that not a slight one, for I was very fond of them.
— Teresa Of Avila
Where both deliberate, the love is slight; Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?
— Christopher Marlowe
Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
— Democritus
Patriotic to the point of arrogance, quick to take offense at any seeming slight of his beloved country and government
— Craig Pittman
Good Lord, what madness rules in brainsick menWhen for so slight and frivolous a cause
Such factious emulations shall arise! — William Shakespeare
So we literally made the earth move? A slight pause, before Kaleb said, I suggest we don't engage in sex in populated areas.
— Nalini Singh
If you would live happily, do not exaggerate life's evils, nor slight her blessings.
— Joseph Joubert
She seemed to be occupied with of inner chamber of ideas and to have slight need for visible objects.
— Thomas Hardy
Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
— Mick Jagger
