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Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.
I think I have a slight fear of intimacy.
Anarchy is the only slight glimmer of hope.
We don't want to miss anybody or slight anybody.
A face is too slight a foundation for happiness.
Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far.
I have a slight herniation above where I had surgery.
Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
There is no real beauty without some slight imperfection.
We're all slight hypocrites who fall short of our ideals.
I have a slight contrarian impulse I can't seem to shake.
I think I gravitate towards characters who are slight outsiders.
I don't really have Down's syndrome; I just have a slight case of it.
It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
There's always been a slight twinge of some classical elements in our music.
Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence.
The best portraits are those in which there is a slight mixture of caricature.
While the mind is in doubt it is driven this way and that by a slight impulse.
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.
I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.
My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
There is a slight tomboyish side to me. But I was studious, and I did not bunk classes!
The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.
When you actually see Barack Obama, it's startling how slight he is and how young he looks.
I never had a slight feeling of intimidation. I'm not even trying to compete with Mr. Perry.
Who cares if a carrot has a slight bend? They're all the same when they end up on the plate.
Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.
If you haven't had at least a slight poetic crack in the heart, you have been cheated by nature.
It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.
Even slight elevations in blood sugar have been shown to increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.
With slight risk of exaggeration you could say that he walked almost every mile of the Indian land.
Over the years, I've had a slight ebbing and flowing of confidence in my non-comedic role abilities.
I believe that each person can make a difference, but it's so slight that there's basically no point.
It's hard to beat the rough texture of steel-cut oats, with their slight resistance against the teeth.
Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.
I'm interested in the things that might seem slight or amusing but which I feel have a kind of profundity.
I think everybody carries a slight sense of being different, and I know that it comes very naturally to me.
But I will just make the slight point here - I have never ever bought anything online. I don't know how to.
Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.
Our minds have a tendency to wander. To duck and feint and keep us at a slight remove from the moment at hand.
All pain is either severe or slight, if slight, it is easily endured; if severe, it will without doubt be brief.
All types of magic performance have a purpose. Even if it's an amateur who's trying out slight of hand on YouTube.
Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.
When I make a tackle or make a play and I have a slight pain or something, you're going to react the way you react.
I was always part of the end-of-term review at school. We would mercilessly mock any slight weakness in the teachers.
I don't think theatrical marriages are necessarily less stable than others; I think this is a slight misapprehension.
It's odd to meet a rather elderly man who says, 'I've been reading you all my life.' It makes you feel a slight chill.
One critic called me nothing but a blues singer, as though that was a slight. That is the highest compliment there is.
