Slightest Quotes

I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I haven't the slightest doubt that internally taking shape in that marvelous brain of his is a philosophy of foreign affairs. But it would be premature to say that one is fully formed.

I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.

I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.

I have no enthusiasm for nature which the slightest chill will not instantly destroy.

His heart was like a sensitive plant, that opens for a moment in the sunshine, but curls up and shrinks into itself at the slightest touch of the finger, or the lightest breath of wind.

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

We deny and have always denied having the slightest link with al-Qaeda.

No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there.

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to.

There is no proletarian, not even a Communist movement, that has not operated in the interests of money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact.

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.

I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest.

Science doesn't in the slightest depend on trust. It depends completely on the belief that you can demonstrate something for yourself.

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

I have not the slightest doubt that this form of individuation represents a higher stage in the evolution of mankind.

You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience, both knaves and fools.

I don't think the NFL had the slightest intention of taking me, except as maybe a water boy.

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields?

We are going to inherit the earth; there is not the slightest doubt about that.

I've never found it made the slightest difference being a woman - though there is a sort of feeling that as you get older you're not so interesting.

Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.

To exclude all jurors who would be in the slightest way affected by the prospect of the death penalty would be to deprive the defendant of the impartial jury to which he or she is entitled under the law.

The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.