#lightest

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. ↗

— Alice Duer Miller

#criticize #doing #friends #hold #painful

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#am #i #i am #panic #slightest

Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of the slightest value. ↗

— Benjamin Jowett

#achieved #any #excuse #idleness #mere

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. ↗

— Francois Fenelon

#defects #everything #excellent #forgive #general

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

— Giacomo Casanova

#both #conscience #deceived #fools #i

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#evil #himself #man #must #order

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.' ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#experience #government #government spending #just #much

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#beyond #commit #conduct #constantly #constructive

Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up? ↗

— Evangelista Torricelli

#being #being there #column #enough #enter

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#attitudes #authorities #censored #china #chinese