#lightly

Nearly one in four women will experience domestic violence during her lifetime. And slightly more than half of female victims of domestic violence live in households with children under age 12. ↗

— Lucille Roybal-Allard

#children #domestic #during #experience #female

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

I'm better with my hands, and I always loved the slightly romantic idea of starting with bits of wood and being able to create something to sit on, to eat from, to store your clothes in. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#always #being #better #bits #clothes

Never eat less than four hours before boxing. Then eat only lightly. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#boxing #eat #four #hours #less

She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry. ↗

— Mary Balogh

#mary-balogh #romance #slightly #wicked #humor

I was slightly disappointed, but also encouraged, because I put myself in position to win a major, which is all even Tiger says he tries to do. ↗

— Stuart Appleby

#because #disappointed #encouraged #even #i

I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability. ↗

— Susan Boyle

#awareness #birth #brain #damaged #disability

And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool. ↗

— Adam Brody

#cool #guy #heroes #might #movie

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside. ↗

— Stuart Chase

#believe #difficult #find #habits #hard

I had a happy, dramafree youth, growing up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Dallas, Texas. The only thing that was slightly unusual compared to most of my friends was that I was an only child... I don't think that's why my parents gave me a dummy, at least they've never copped to it. ↗

— Jeff Dunham

#compared #dallas #dummy #friends #gave