“ 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- Copy
- 998
“ Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight. ”
- Ishikawa Takuboku- Copy
- 951
“ This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
- 3.5K
“ To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. ”
- William Londen- Copy
- 2K
“ The crack of a bat sounded amplified in cavernous Yankee Stadium, sprinkled lightly with fans on a cool September evening. ”
- William E. Geist- Copy
- 744
“ He seems to have gone to his icebox, pulled out all the cold obsessions, mixed them in a bowl, beat too lightly and baked too long. ”
- John Leonard- Copy
- 173
“ We cannot lightly allow the perpetrator of a serious crime to go free simply because that person believed his actions were reasonable and necessary to prevent some perceived harm. ”
- Sol Wachtler- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Let your life lightly dance on the edges of Time like dew on the tip of a leaf. ”
- Rabindranath Tagore- Copy
- 1.7K
“ Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly. ”
- M. F. K. Fisher- Copy
- 1.4K
“ We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child. ”
- Jamie Lee Curtis- Copy
- 1.9K
“ No one ever stated their troubles As lightly as they might. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
- 3.5K
“ It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. ”
- Kehlog Albran- Copy
- 3.8K
“ To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. ”
- William Londen- Copy
- 2.6K
“ To insure good health: Eatl Lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life. ”
- William Louden- Copy
- 3.9K
“ An alcoholic has been lightly defined as a man who drinks more than his own doctor. ”
- Alvan L. Barach- Copy
- 383
“ This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. ”
- Dorothy Parker- Copy
- 3.8K
“ Wonderful "Force of Public Opinion!" We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of "influence" it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front? ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
- 1.4K
“ Father Time is not always a hard parent, and, though he tarries for none of his children, often lays his hand lightly upon those who have used him well; making them old men and women inexorably enough, but leaving their hearts and spirits young and in full vigor… ”
- Charles Dickens- Copy
- 2.2K
“ Night is a dead monotonous period under a roof; but in the open world it passes lightly, with its stars and dews and perfumes, and the hours are marked by changes in the face of Nature. What seems a kind of temporal death to people choked between walls and curtains, is only a light and living slumber to the man who sleeps afield. ”
- Robert Louis Stevenson- Copy
- 934
“ After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone. ”
- Henry Bromel- Copy
- 1.6K
“ there are places we all come from — deep-rooty-common places — that make us who they are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again — and can go home again… ”
- Robert Fulghum- Copy
- 1.9K
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