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Tag Name "Lightly" (266)

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He who has great power should use it lightly.
Seneca the Younger
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Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting satisfaction in life. This is not an easy time in which to live. That does not mean that it has to be a difficult time to love, but it does mean that you will find unusual stresses upon your lives and your relationship.
Brandon Sanderson
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This is my social face,” he said lightly. “Don’t confuse it with the animal beneath.
Elizabeth Hoyt
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The gazelles so gentle and clever Skip lightly in frolicsome mood.
Heinrich Heine
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I think I would say to my daughters if they were to ask me this question... it [their virginity] is the greatest gift that you can give someone, the ultimate gift of giving and don't give it to someone lightly, that's what I would say.
Tony Abbott
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Principles are deep fundamental truths... lightly interwoven threads running with exactness, consistency, beauty and strength through the fabric of life.
Stephen Covey
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When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: Try to bear lightly what needs must be. Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.
Dale Carnegie
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Holding on to love is not wrong, but you need to learn to hold it lightly, caressingly. Let it fly when it wants. When it's allowed to be free, love is what makes life alive, joyful, and new. As long as love is in my heart, it's everywhere.
Michael Jackson
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He (Michael) was gone in a whisper of air, hardly making any sound at all, and Claire shivered and leaned against Shane’s solid, very human warmth. His arms went around her, and he touched his lips lightly to the back of her neck. “How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we’ve had?” “I sweat perfume. Like all girls.
Rachel Caine
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As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street.
Christopher Hitchens
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I love the sea but it does not love me. The sea is like a desert in that it is quite rightly feared. The sea and the desert are both hungry, they have things to be getting on with so you do not go into them lightly.
Tim Winton
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I see in the melody of Nature, God. It is a wonderful work of art. The spirit of the art is wonderful. And I feel that I am myself because I have never taken music lightly. Music is the manifestation of God, like everything else.
Pablo Casals
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I sleep lightly and tread to keep my head out of the sea of dreams.
David Anthony Durham
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My skin's too white. she said. Says who, Snow White? he said, touching her cheek lightly with one hand.
Regina Doman
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Take what you do seriously, but yourself lightly
Ken Blanchard
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How lovely goodness is in those who, stepping lightly, go smiling through the world.
Virginia Woolf
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After the enemies with guns have been wiped out, there will still be enemies without guns they are bound to struggle desperately against us, and we must never regard these enemies lightly. If we do nor now raise and understand the problem in this way, we shall commit the gravest mistakes.
Mao Zedong
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It really really sunk into me when I went to Europe and they take rap so much more serious than we do here. That was the first time I ever heard rap considered folk music. And sometimes somebody will make you understand like, Hey, what you doin' is serious, don't play it lightly 'cause it's changin' my life.
Ice T
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I can't explain the alchemy that transmuted one evening into the equivalent of years held lightly in common. The only way I can put it is that we recognized, too surely even for surprise, that we shared the same currency.
Tana French
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I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly.
Gina Barreca
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We shall not lightly talk about sacrifice until we are driven to the last extremity which makes sacrifice inevitable.
Chiang Kai-shek
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Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.
Sophocles
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Becoming artistic directors is an enormous responsibility and not one that we take lightly.
Cate Blanchett
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Have a vision but hold it lightly, wear it like a loose garment.
Gabrielle Bernstein
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