#slight

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them. ↗

— Voltaire

#before #destroying #laws #shade #slight

It's necessary to be slightly underemployed if you are to do something significant. ↗

— James D. Watson

#significant #slightly #something #underemployed #you

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight. ↗

— Paul Watzlawick

#counterpart #difference #seeker #slight #suicide

I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul. ↗

— Alec Waugh

#believe #does #dry #i #i am

In the best days of our republic Americans were fiercely proud of the fact that rich and poor met on such equal terms in so many ways, and without the slightest trace of hostility. ↗

— Robert Welch

#days #equal #fact #fiercely #hostility

Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking. ↗

— Jessamyn West

#complete #family #friends #must #natural

Why, if someone is good in one field can they not be accepted or given the slightest opportunity to express and be creative in other fields? ↗

— Kanye West

#creative #express #field #fields #given

The hardest thing about skateboarding is consistency: The slightest flick of your foot or gust of wind can send your board flying, so it's really anybody's game out there. ↗

— Shaun White

#anybody #board #consistency #flick #flying

Any committee that is the slightest use is composed of people who are too busy to want to sit on it for a second longer than they have to. ↗

— Katharine Whitehorn

#busy #committee #composed #longer #people

It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so. ↗

— William Whitelaw

#clever #less #more #never #slightly