X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Tag Name "Lightly" (266)

Page 10 of 12
Filter & Style
Image
Carelessness is not fatal to journalism, nor are cliches, for the eye rests lightly on them. But what is intended to be read once can seldom be read more than once a journalist has to accept the fact that his work, by its very todayness, is excluded from any share in tomorrow.
Cyril Connolly
Image
Everyone wants to beat us. So you can never take a single game lightly.
Jim Otto
Image
Simplicity means to choose ways of living that touch the Earth more lightly and that reduce our ecological footprint.
Duane Elgin
Image
Clary screamed out loud as he fell like a stone- And landed lightly on his feet just in front of her. Clary stared with her mouth open as he rose up out of a shallow crouch and grinned at her. If I made a joke about just dropping in, he said, would you write me off as a cliché?
Cassandra Clare
Image
People talk of beauty lightly, and having no feeling for words, they use that one carelessly, so that it loses its force and the thing it stands for, sharing its name with a hundred trivial objects, is deprived of dignity. They call beautiful a dress, a dog, a sermon and when they are face to face with Beauty cannot recognise it.
W. Somerset Maugham
Image
I don't do things lightly, I don't take a job then just phone it in, I've never done that.
Ewan McGregor
Image
Closest to the truth are those who deal lightly with it because they know it is inexhaustible.
Golo Mann
Image
Equality and freedom are not luxuries to lightly cast aside. Without them, order cannot long endure before approaching depths beyond imagining.
Alan Moore
Image
There's only so often you're going to have an opportunity to contribute at a high level and that you should be grateful whenever one presents itself and not take it lightly.
Ethan Hawke
Image
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight
M. F. K. Fisher
Image
When a woman says she will obey you, of her own will, it is time to sleep lightly and watch your back.
Robert Jordan
Image
It's your outlook on life that counts. If you take yourself lightly and don't take yourself too seriously, pretty soon you can find the humor in our everyday lives. And sometimes it can be a lifesaver.
Betty White
Image
Our National Motto - 'In God We Trust' - was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in the universe to which this nation owes homage.
Ronald Reagan
Image
Wait until the end, like the last two or three minutes of cooking, to add barbecue sauce, so it cooks into your meat. But if you add it too early, it will make your fire flame up. You don't have to slather on the sauce. Just lightly paste each side.
Johnny Trigg
Image
When you play someone who is an iconic figure you can't go into it lightly.
Penelope Wilton
Image
The maxim that men are not to be praised before their death was invented by envy and too lightly adopted by philosophers.
Luc de Clapiers
Image
So you may look lightly upon a Scripture and see nothing meditate often upon it, and there you shall see a light, like the light of the sun.
Joseph Caryl
Image
How we live our lives gives those we love permission to do the same. That is a power and a responsibility that we can never take lightly.
Hal Elrod
Image
...Samuel rode lightly on top of a book and he balanced happily among ideas the way a man rides white rapids in a canoe. But Tom got into a book, crawled and groveled between the covers, tunneled like a mole among the thoughts, and came up with the book all over his face and hands.
John Steinbeck
Image
I don't use the term 'miracle' lightly. I don't believe in God, or reincarnation, or destiny, or the Publishers' Clearinghouse Sweepstakes.
Rick Reynolds
Image
It is with great regret that my marriage to Grant is ending after more than six years. He is a special man and we have two amazing children together Ruby, 5, and son Rocco, 3. This was a mutual decision that was not taken lightly and we are committed to our children and will work together to ensure their happy and healthy upbringing.
Jillian Barberie
Image
Lightly I sped when hope was high And youth beguiled the chase,-- I follow, follow still: But I Shall never see her face.
Frederick Locker-Lampson
Image
This won't look so good in my obituary, Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words.Gave his life for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria.
Alistair Maclean
Image
The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. A brave heart and a courteous tongue, said he. They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.
Rudyard Kipling
Previous
Next