Quotes of: Slighted Keyword

I think for most Americans, knowledge of the Islamic world was pretty slight before 9/11, and then it was thrust upon us in one of America's darkest hours.

Thomas P. Campbell

I'm an American searching for some sort of parameters, a way of life - I'm looking for a slight formality, for a place where you can never be overdressed.

Waris Ahluwalia

I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.

Chris Burke

I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.

Adam Lambert

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

Voltaire

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

David Blaine

What did you think, that joy / was some slight thing?

Mark Doty

Very little is needed for everything to be upset and ruined, only a slight lapse in reason.

Epictetus

I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

Dan Aykroyd

A slight touch of friendly malice and amusement towards those we love keeps our affections for them from turning flat.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty.

Juan Cole

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.

Niccolo Machiavelli

…the two chatting surreptitiously as a procession of priests, musicians, and locals dressed like demons paraded down the street: the men hoisting erect wooden phalluses, the women embracing smaller carved penises swathed in red paper, the spectator...

A Slight Trick of the Mind

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

Tacitus

Obama's policies have been approximately the same as Bush's, though there have been some slight differences, but that's not a great surprise. The Democrats supported Bush's policies.

Noam Chomsky

Even slight elevations in blood sugar have been shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.

David Perlmutter

The most likely victim of actual religious discrimination in British society is a Muslim, but the person who is most likely to feel slighted because of their religion is an evangelical Christian.

Trevor Phillips

It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.

Yotam Ottolenghi

Of course, I do have a slight advantage over the rest of you. It helps in a pinch to be able to remind your bride that you gave up a throne for her.

Edward VIII

Well, I also love magic, which is, you know, different than showmanship. Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder.

David Blaine

With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.

Satish Kumar