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Tag Name "Slight" (267)

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Slight changes simply make a blur.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
Thomas Fuller
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For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight.
William Shakespeare
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I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.
Dan Aykroyd
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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.
Balthus
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The audience goes to sleep really quickly! If you have a slight pause at the wrong time, that's it!
Woody Allen
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He cracked a slight smile, but it didn’t look amused. “I’m not letting you out of my sight. You’re looking a little deranged, Angel. We’ll go together.
Becca Fitzpatrick
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Unbind the charms that in slight fables lie and teach that truth is truest poesy.
Abraham Cowley
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We focus on money, getting money and winning. We let the rest of them chase the women. We focus on winning cuz getting women is slight work. That's all the time with us.
Yo Gotti
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I used to have this slight speech implement and couldn't remember things before I took the Sam Carnegie course.
Bill Peterson
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Volcanic action is essentially paroxysmal yet Mr. Lyell will admit no greater paroxysms than we ourselves have witnessed-no periods of feverish spasmodic energy, during which the very framework of nature has been convulsed and torn asunder. The utmost movements that he allows are a slight quivering of her muscular integuments.
Adam Sedgwick
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I think I gravitate towards characters who are slight outsiders. It's fun to play a character that wants so badly to be included in the normal activities of teenage life, but lacks the literal hardware to do it.
Zach Woods
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General knowledge may have to be slight or even amateurish knowledge, but it is none the less useful, and we discourage it at our peril.
C. V. Wedgwood
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Past dreams of bliss our lives contain, And slight the chords that still retain A heart estranged to joys again, To scenes by memory's silver chain Close-linked, and ever yet apart, That like the vine, whose tendrils young Around some fostering branch have clung, Grown with its growth, as tho' it sprung From one united heart.
Alan Cooper
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When you are but slightly involved in the world, the effect the world has on you is also slight. When you are deeply enmeshed in affairs, you machinations also deepen. So for enlightened people simplicity is better than refinement, and freedom is better than punctiliousness.
Zicheng Hong
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A lady of fashion will sooner excuse a freedom flowing from admiration than a slight resulting from indifference.
Charles Caleb Colton
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The more you fail, the more you succeed. It is only when everything is lost and - instead of giving up - you go on, that you experience the momentary prospect of some slight progress. Suddenly you have the feeling - be it an illusion or not - that something new has opened up.
Alberto Giacometti
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Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
Tryon Edwards
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I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.
Charles Darwin
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Nor Fame I slight, nor for her favors call She comes unlooked for, if she comes at all .
Alexander Pope
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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.
Victor Hugo
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Natural selection acts solely by accumulating slight successive favorable variations, it can produce no great or sudden modification it can act only by very short steps.
Charles Darwin
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A perfect Judge will read each work of Wit With the same spirit that its author writ: Survey the Whole, nor seek slight faults to find Where nature moves, and rapture warms the mind.
Alexander Pope
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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
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