#lightly

Being born into the Royal Family is like being born into a mental asylum. Marrying into it is not something to be taken lightly. ↗

— Johnny Rotton

#being #born #family #into #lightly

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly. ↗

— J. D. Salinger

#being #constantly #could #make #slightly

He who has great power should use it lightly. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#great power #lightly #power #should #use

It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include. ↗

— John Sexton

#camera #elements #find #glass #green

There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises. ↗

— Jonathan Shapiro

#balances #certain #checks #disturbing #government

I do not go lightly. If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state. ↗

— Kevin Shelley

#anything #continue #could #go #i

I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen. ↗

— Tom Stoppard

#authorities #autocracy #dictatorship #envied #freedom

A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it. ↗

— William Styron

#exhausted #experiences #great #great book #leave

Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#dew #edges #leaf #life #lightly

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. ↗

— Bernard Meltzer

#cracked #egg #even #friend #knows