#slight

I never wanted to retire. I wanted to kind of shift my work pattern so I could stay fresh and invigorated, and use the experience that I had gained in 30 years, but in a slightly different direction. ↗

— Bill Kurtis

#different #direction #experience #fresh #gained

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. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#bear #below #coward #equal #ever

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#aversion #cerebral #deep #deep down #down

Yes, I was invited to make the sound environment at a booth of a huge electronic company, during the Hanover Industrial Fair in 1973. It was a job. Slightly good paid. But not as much as my producer then told the press. ↗

— Klaus Schulze

#company #during #electronic #environment #fair

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

Yet for my part, deeply as I am moved by the religious architecture of the Middle Ages, I cannot honestly say that I ever felt the slightest emotion in any modern Gothic church. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

#am #any #architecture #cannot #church

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

Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it. ↗

— Tacitus

#away #deserved #die #gradually #irritated

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by 500 readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the 500, he reaches the five hundred thousand. ↗

— Brooks Adams

#difference #five #hundred #influence #reaches

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