Quotes of: Slighted Keyword

Pain is slight if opinion has added nothing to it; ... in thinking it slight, you will make it slight. Everything depends on opinion. It is according to opinion that we suffer. A man is as wretched as he has convinced himself that he is.

Seneca

Do not despise an insignificant enemy, nor a slight wound.

German

He never was a friend who ceased to be so for a slight cause.

Portuguese

Let us remove God from the equation, shall we?

A Slight Trick of the Mind

All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Actually, it is amazing how much can be learned about people from the books they own.

A Slight Trick of the Mind

You know, I never did call him Watson – he was John, simply John.

A Slight Trick of the Mind

the Bible is only as good and decent as the person reading it.

American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics

You know, we bungled a number of important cases – regrettably. Of course, who wants to read about the failures? I certainly don’t.

A Slight Trick of the Mind

Something has gone amiss with the world, he found himself thinking. Something has changed in the marrow, and I’m at a loss to make sense of it.

A Slight Trick of the Mind

Without being too blunt – you are a bachelor who lived with another bachelor for many years.” “Purely platonic, I assure you.

A Slight Trick of the Mind

So what is the truth?” Mr Umezaki had once asked him. “How do you arrive at it? How do you unravel the meaning of something that doesn’t want to be known?

A Slight Trick of the Mind

But as of late, I have been consumed with the significant task of revising the latest edition of my , while alternately putting the finishing touches on my four volumes of . The latter is a rather tedious, labyrinthine undertaking...

A Slight Trick of the Mind

How amazing it was, Holmes mentioned, that such a powerful substance, the chemistry of which was still not completely known, could be produced by the pharyngeal glands of the worker bee –creating queens from ordinary bee larvae, healing a multitude...

A Slight Trick of the Mind

Is that true? Are you really him?” “I am afraid I still hold that distinction.” “You are Sherlock Holmes? No, I don’t believe it.” “That is quite all right. I scarcely believe it myself.

A Slight Trick of the Mind

Singing harmony is not the same as singing a part in a choral group, where you know you're going to have to hit this note and then that note. There are nuances that change every day. Maybe today you have a slight cold or voice fatigue, or you've done...

Phil Everly

I am afraid I never wore a deerstalker, or smoked the big pipe – mere embellishments by an illustrator, intended to give me distinction, I suppose, and sell magazines. I didn’t get much say in the matter.

A Slight Trick of the Mind

To comprehend yourself truly, which is also to comprehend the world truly, you needn’t look any farther than at what abounds with life around you – the blossoming meadow, the untrodden woodlands. Without this as mankind’s overriding objective, ...

A Slight Trick of the Mind

Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.

Mick Jagger

Straight people don't have to come out, as heterosexuality is assumed. [...] Young straight people are less likely to question the choices that their families and societies are attempting to make for them. [...]A lot of straight people move through l...

American Savage: Insights, Slights, and Fights on Faith, Sex, Love, and Politics

The truth is, what you do matters. What you do today matters. What you do every day matters. Successful people just do the things that seem to make no difference in the act of doing them and they do them over and over and over until the compound effe...

The Slight Edge: Secret to a Successful Life